Google Places Account Suspended
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Hi-
I was recently forced to migrate my Google account. After going through the process my Google Places profiles associated with this email was suspended. I've read the quality guidelines and I'm pretty certain that my account was suspended because:
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Account Email Address: Use a shared business email account, if multiple users will be updating your business listing. If possible, use an email account under your business domain. For example, if your business website is www.google.com, a matching email address would be you@google.com.There seems to be no way to change the email address associated with a Places account. I've pretty much resolved to obtaining emails at the business domain and setting the profiles up again from scratch. Before I do this does anyone have any other ideas? I've posted the question at Google webmaster forums and have only found other similar unanswered questions.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
LHC
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Unfortunately no. I've made some changes and now I'm just waiting for Google to come around...tips for expediting the process?
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Hi Lisa,
Did you ever get this straightened out?
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@mike is right, they recently updated places and this might just be an error. All of our listings were pending a couple of weeks ago, but they came back.
However, Google does specifically say that they prefer an email address from the domain associated with the places page. It may be best to do this now rather than later.
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Thanks, Mike!
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I would wait a little bit as Google just recently split the accounts that way and this might just be a bug that will be resolved shortly.
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