Phone Support For Verification Issues With Google Local For Business

Mike Blumenthal first spotted that Google is now offering phone support for businesses having issues with verifying their Google Maps listing. The way it works is you must go to this form – a troubleshooter for verification issues. Then depending on how you answer the questions and what time of the day it is, Google […]

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Google Places Phone Support 1357716784Mike Blumenthal first spotted that Google is now offering phone support for businesses having issues with verifying their Google Maps listing.

The way it works is you must go to this form – a troubleshooter for verification issues. Then depending on how you answer the questions and what time of the day it is, Google will allow you to enter your name and phone number. A Google representative will then call you within 60 seconds and help you verify your business within Google Maps.

Here is a picture of the form to “talk to a specialist”:

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If you try this after hours, you will get this message:

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Google Local for Businesses (aka Google Places) is known for having many bugs and issues. So I hope phone support helps resolve the quick issues on the verification side.

Google has tested phone support for AdSense and for AdWords.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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