Should You Mark a Listing as Temporarily Closed?

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I didn't notice that rankings were being affected in areas where we were receiving traffic but not other terms. Shortly after that, we reopened the listing, and in about a week, here is the current result… So apparently, whatever suppression Google was doing because of temporarily closing the business was most likely not done, or something reset when reopening the listing and just wiped out all SERPs while it re-indexed. We won't know for sure until the listing starts to rank again; if it does… How long will it take if rankings return? We will be sure to let you know if and when it happens. But it's safe to say we would not advise marking a GBP as temporarily closed, even if you are. Unless you are ok with losing all your rankings… Moving on to our new listing indexation test, we are just now seeing some terms outside our brand name and category. “SEO Consulting” has popped into the SERPs as of 9/8. The listing went live on 8/10, so it's been 19 days. Now "SEO" is present in a few places on the listing (not in the brand or category). However, "consulting" is only in one place… Specifically, "SEO Consulting" is an inner page on our website and is present in the top menu on our website's homepage. It's interesting to see an emphasis specifically on the top menu. We don't know if it's because this is specifically a link to an internal page, if it's because it's a menu item, or if Google simply crawled the page and it was one of the lower comp terms that it picked up and started testing Us in the SERPs. Join us next week for another update and discover what we find out with our GBP tests. We will launch a new "Menu Link" test soon to test our findings today. Until then, happy testing! Favorite SEO Tools SERP Results Beta If you're looking for an affordable rank tracker (local & organic), this is it! We've built a better rank tracker with improve accuracy (& not a huge price tag). 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