{"id":5458,"date":"2022-08-08T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T12:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/08\/google-updates-business-profile-posts-spam-policies\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T12:50:02","slug":"google-updates-business-profile-posts-spam-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/08\/google-updates-business-profile-posts-spam-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Google updates Business Profile posts spam policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has updated what it considers to be spam when it comes to Google Business Profile posts in the Business Profile posts content policies.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/7213077?hl=en#:~:text=Duplicate%20photos%2C%20posts%2C%20videos%2C%20and%20logos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new line added<\/a> under the avoid section says \u201cexamples of such content that is not allowed includes \u201cduplicate photos, posts, videos, and logos.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>Duplicate. <\/strong>Yes, the new line says that \u201cduplicate photos, posts, videos, and logos\u201d was added as an example of Google posts that would be rejected or removed because it is considered spam.  That line was not on the Google document prior and was just recently added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenshot. <\/strong>Here is a screenshot of the addition:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2022\/08\/google-business-spam-duplicate-photos-posts-videos-and-logos-1659716097-800x380.png\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" class=\"wp-image-387007\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Consequence. <\/strong>What happens if you are caught posting duplicate photos, posts, videos, or logos in your Google Business Profile posts? Well, those posts may be rejected or removed from Google Search and Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>Joy Hawkins and Colan Nielsen posted this on Friday:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have been hearing a ton of complaints about rejected posts recently. If you&#8217;re using logos in your images or stock photos (&#8220;duplicate photos&#8221;), that could be why. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ajVe9VfkZj\">https:\/\/t.co\/ajVe9VfkZj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joy Hawkins (@JoyanneHawkins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyanneHawkins\/status\/1555578235802501120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Why we care. <\/strong>If you do a lot of Google Business Profile posts, make sure not to duplicate photos, posts, videos, or logos in your Google Business Profile posts. If you see some of your posts being rejected recently, it might be related to the revised guidelines Google has added the other day.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-updates-business-profile-posts-spam-policies-387006\" target=\"_blank\">Google updates Business Profile posts spam policies<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Search Engine Land<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has updated what it considers to be spam when it comes to Google Business Profile posts in the Business Profile posts content policies. The new line added under the avoid section says \u201cexamples of such content that is not allowed includes \u201cduplicate photos, posts, videos, and logos.\u201d Duplicate. Yes, the new line says that \u201cduplicate photos, posts, videos, and logos\u201d was added as an example of Google posts that would be rejected or removed because it is considered spam. That line was not on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}