AI Ranking Factors, SAB Pin Hack & Google Review Problems | E41 The Whitespark Local Update

What? That's pretty crazy because this has always been a big problem.

You can't move a service area business map pin.

You've got a lot of service area businesses where if you check on a ranking grid, you can see that they're ranking totally not where they're supposed to.

But maybe if you can move a pin, you can fix it.

So anyways, the way it works is you go to the listing on maps and you add this little code.

You'll have to look it up in the show notes.

I have after but it's like exclamation 10 m2 x it's just like a chunk of code you add that into the url after data equals and then you press enter and you're going to get this new little panel that i've never seen before that gives you these options you're gonna it's got wrong pin location or address missing place add or fix a road also interesting wrong information or your opinions about maps you tell them what you think So it's got those options.

And then if you do it on an SAB listing, you can actually drag the pin.

So I noticed that it wouldn't work if I am doing it, if I go directly to a listing on Maps.

I have to be kind of in the search results and then just click listing.

And then I put that in there and it comes up.

But it's a suggestion edit like any other suggestion edit.

So it may or may not get approved by Google when you submit it.

But I do find that if you're a really high-level local guy, you can often get your edits approved.

And the huge question for me is, could you use this to fix an SAB that currently has their pin in the wrong place? Common problem right now, the only fix for that is you've got to create a brand new Google business profile.

Then you've got to move your reviews from that one over to the new one.

And then, okay, finally, now you're an SAB ranking in the right place.

But maybe you could use this little hack to actually move the pin and then you don't have to go through all that trouble.

Very interesting.

What do you think of that, Amy?

I worry.

I worry like I work at everything.

Because what was it? I think it was a couple of years ago where we had the pins were moved too easily.

That is a concern for sure.

I don't want to talk about it because I don't want the hackers to be messing around.