Can Competitors Edit Your Google My Business Listing?

Google is undoubtedly the most popular search engine and every business and service providers want to use all the available features of Google to their full advantage. To make a business popular and develop all-around Google be it the search engine or the Google maps people are now using Google My Business Listing. This is a no-cost tool available from Google which allows a trader to manage all the business related activities across all domains of Google.

The business-related information like address, timings, products and services offered and be edited and uploaded for consumer viewing. The users can upload their reviews about the services and product qualities they have received from a business which enables other potential customers to make their purchase decision. Or also presents the tracking mechanism which enables a business owner to see how many consumers found out about the business through local listing or by any other method.

However, there is a concern among the businesses that can the competitors edit their Google My Business List? The answer is yes it is possible. Some competitions with negative intention to send the lead generated elsewhere may edit your business information on the Google listings.

However, as per Google, they send an email to the business listing owner once any edit is made on the listing. This email is however sent to only the primary owner and not others. Until and unless the edit made is already live the owner may not receive the update in the email. The owners may tend to misread the information on the dashboard because it shows as Google updates and if they accept it then they will be accepting the negative changes made. There is no denial option in this. After September 2017, Google is sending an email whenever any change is made un the business listings. Although the process is not flawless till date, the search engine giant is still at the continuous effort to make it free from spammers.

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