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Joel T. Headley

American historian and author

Jul 10, 2026

23:53
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.
24:02
Don't do SEO.
24:03
I mean, I think it's obvious.
24:04
Sorry? No, really.
24:10
I think that it's clear that the same things that have always caught people up can be a problem.
24:20
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.
24:37
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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44:11
Yeah.
7:18
Joel, do you want to lead off on this one?
7:20
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.
7:52
And the way the trust and safety team, and that's because that's the only process we had initially.
7:59
Trust and safety team came in later.
8:03
We formed a little map spam team.
8:05
It was actually two people working on it.
8:08
It's obviously grown since then.

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27:41
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?

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