# The main reasons for suspending a Google My Business listing

URL: https://www.business-ereputation.com/en/the-main-reasons-for-suspending-a-google-my-business-listing/
Date: 2023-06-26
Last modified: 2025-04-25
Author: Nicolas Laustriat

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> There isn't a week these days that I don't get calls from stressed-out merchants who've just had their google my business listings suspended by google, so I'm going to list here the main causes identified and validated by fellow SEOs.

**There isn’t a week these days that I don’t get calls from stressed-out merchants who’ve just had their google my business listings suspended by google, so I’m going to list here the main causes identified and validated by fellow SEOs.**

## Causes of a suspended Google listing (in order of importance) :

- The address is a P.O. box, a domiciliation, a virtual office or another false address.

- Infringement reports on your GMB account

- Association of a GMB account with other deleted lists

- Opinion award reports

- Pirated site / presence of malware

- Presence of other profiles in the same category at the same address

- False reports on your GBP account

- Filling in keywords in the GBP company name

- Several profiles with the same phone number

- Receiving too many Google reviews too quickly

- Profiles with the same address/phone number marked as “permanently closed”.

- GMB address concealment/deletion

- Incorrect address on GMB home page

- Map marker misplaced in the map

- Category confusion (adding additional categories in unrelated sectors)

- Main category incorrect

- Display a chargeable number as the only telephone number in the file

- No searchable data address on the website

- Mismatch between data and phone number tracking in the data ecosystem

- Incomplete/missing data in primary data sources

- Stock photos on profile

- No crawlable data on landing page

- Presence of third-party notices in Schema/JSON on the website

- Keyword stuffing in the landing page title tag

- Number of negative review attributes on Google

- No opening hours on the GBP homepage

- Negative sentiment in Google reviews

- Negative sentiment in third-party reviews

- Low numerical rating of Google reviews

- No response from owner to comments

- Weak numerical evaluation of third-party opinions

So here it is, my services, my method audit and control all these points and for each one I know the Google support process. [Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have a problem with a suspended Google listing.](https://www.business-ereputation.com/en/produit/reinstating-a-suspended-google-my-business-listing/)

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