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Joel T. Headley
American historian and author
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Jul 10, 2026
Why Your Google Reviews Disappear (Ex-Googlers Explain)
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Joy HawkinsHOST
So what are your tips for avoiding suspensions, getting listings reinstated? Are there any really solid action items? Joel, I want to start with you.

Joel HeadleyGUEST
I think that it's clear that the same things that have always caught people up can be a problem.

Joel HeadleyGUEST
Be aware of when you're moving a business that you're moving a business, right? If you're changing an address, don't just change the address to fiddle with trying to get a location in a specific spot when it's not really the address.

Joel HeadleyGUEST
Primary categories are important, right? And if you're changing a business's primary categories in a way that doesn't make sense from a hierarchy perspective, like I'm a doctor, now I'm going to become an HVAC doctor.
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Former Google Employees Reveal What You’re Getting Wrong | Brad Wetherall & Joel Headley
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Joel HeadleyGUEST
Yeah, well, I think if I take you back to some of the things I used to say a decade ago, my goodness, how long have we been at this, Joy? I used to say it used to be focused only on flagged reviews, right? You could flag a review, a team would look at that review, and I would say, if a team can't prove in the content of that review that it's violating policy, they will leave it up.

Joel HeadleyGUEST
And the way the trust and safety team, and that's because that's the only process we had initially.
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Joy HawkinsHOST
But I was like, these reviews from three years ago, is there any hope of him getting them back? Or after three years, is there a purging point or anything like that?
