Which Google Business Profile Article Answers Your Question?
Setting up, verifying, recovering and keeping a Google Business Profile. Reviews and reputation have their own section.
These are the articles I point clients to when something goes wrong with the profile itself: it won't verify, it got suspended, someone else controls it, or the business moved. Asking for reviews and answering them is covered in the reputation management articles.
Google Business Profile Reinstatement Guide
The causes are covered on the pillar. This is the procedure. What to repair before you open the appeals tool, the exact documents to have in one folder before the sixty-minute evidence window starts, what the form actually asks for, how long a decision really takes in 2026, and the four moves left when the first appeal comes back denied. Written by David Cragg, who files these for Tucson clients as part of the monthly engagement.
New State, New Name: What Happens to Your Google Reviews
Same owner, same services, new name, new state. Google may still treat your new company as a stranger and leave the reviews behind. David Cragg, who moved Temecula SEO to Tucson in 2022, covers what Google's rules actually say, the one decision to make before touching the profile, the order to make changes in, how to move the domain, and how to carry your track record across when the reviews can't come with you.
Getting a Fake Review Removed: What Actually Works
Somebody calls me about once a month wanting a review gone by Friday. Here is the honest version: Google removes reviews that break a policy, not reviews that are unfair or untrue. This walks through what Google's criteria actually cover, how to flag a review and write the one appeal you get, when the Business Redressal Complaint Form is the right escalation, what the timelines really look like, and the point where a fake review stops being an SEO problem and becomes a lawyer's.
Google Business Profile Video Verification
Video verification is not hard, it is unforgiving. David Cragg covers what to film and in what order for storefronts and service-area businesses, the documented reasons recordings get rejected, why most second attempts fail for the wrong reason, and what it actually means when Google offers you no verification method at all.
How Do You Redesign a Website Without Losing Your Google Rankings?
Rankings rarely drop because the new design is worse. They drop because URLs changed, redirects leaked or a staging setting went live. The inventory, the redirect map, the launch-day checks and the first two weeks in Search Console, in the order I run them on client sites.
How to Respond to a Bad Review
Most advice on negative reviews stops at "stay professional and take it offline." This is the executable version: exact wording for eight situations that actually land on local business profiles, what never to say in each, and when a review can genuinely be removed.
How Do You Rank Higher on Google Maps in 2026?
Google ranks the Map Pack on relevance, distance and prominence, and you control two of them. The order I change things in when a client's profile sits below the top three, how to read a drop in rank from one side of town to the other, the tactics Google switched off, and the checklist I run.
Someone Else Owns My Google Business Profile — How Do I Get It Back?
The listing is yours, the reviews are yours, but the account belongs to an agency you fired or a Gmail nobody remembers creating. David Cragg walks through the full recovery: identifying who holds it, the request-access flow, the separate path service-area businesses have to use, the three-day response window that most articles get wrong, what to do when the current owner simply ignores you, and how to appeal a denial.
How to Get More Google Reviews Without Breaking the Rules
Most businesses don't have a review problem, they have a request problem. The request system from David Cragg: pulling your short review link out of the profile, when to ask, text versus email, where QR codes belong, what staff can legally say after Google's April 2026 policy change, and the arithmetic behind how many reviews a month it takes to keep your recent history full.
Would You Rather Not Do This Yourself?
This work is part of my reputation management. Review requests, replies and monitoring are part of the $1,000 fee for every client. The other article sections are google business profile articles, technical seo articles, seo services articles.
What Do Clients Say About Working With David?
Four of the ten reviews on my Google profiles, quoted in full. Most were left on the Temecula SEO profile during the Southern California years, before the practice moved to Tucson in 2022. The one labeled SEO Tucson names the new business in the review itself.
We have worked with David for over a year now and he is great to work with. David has built us a great new website that we love and our Google ranking has improved significantly. David is a great guy and works day and night to help you. I highly recommend Temecula seo. Thank you David for your hard work.
Jason Moat Moat Termite Control · Temecula SEO
David has been a huge help to my business. He's knowledgeable, responsive, and consistently delivers great work. Since working with him, we've seen strong improvements and he continues to go above and beyond to help our business grow. Highly recommend David and SEO Tucson to anyone looking for someone who truly cares about getting results.
Weston Molitor Wild West Junk Removal · SEO Tucson
Dave does much more than "just" SEO, or at least he does everything even tangentially related to SEO. Not just finding keywords and maximizing them, but rather looking at things at their foundation so we get the best possible results. Dave is very hands-on and blazingly fast with execution. I'm sure I've tried his patience as I know just enough to be annoying and not near enough to do a good job of this myself. He manages to explain what I need explained in a "for dummies" level but without making me feel like an idiot.
With a lot of people our company works with, we are ready for their services/delivery/etc. before they are. This is especially true of some of our previous marketing efforts. We try not to get too impatient. With Dave on the other hand, we can't keep up. And our results have improved dramatically very quickly!
Marc Rowen Temecula SEO
Called to inquire about services. Dave was extremely helpful in providing knowledge and guidance for a small business getting started.
Lou Ramirez Temecula SEO
Is a Review or a Search Result Hurting You Right Now?
Read it to me over the phone. I'll tell you whether it can be removed, answered or outranked, and roughly how long each would take.
Or call (520) 207-6000.
SEO Tucson, formerly Temecula SEO
Serving Tucson and Southern Arizona
Phone: (520) 207-6000
Consultant: David Cragg, in search since 1990
Every article in this section was written by David Cragg, Tucson SEO consultant, in search since 1990.
On how this site is written: I use AI tools to draft and to check my own work. AI does not supply the facts about your business, it does not invent sources, and nothing goes up here that I have not read first. If you find a claim on this site you can't verify, call me and I'll fix it or pull it.
