G+ Profile and Pages won't let me list categories
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Hi Mozzers,
I'm working on a client's G+ profile and sub-pages and the competition all have one simple category - 'House Clearance'.
When you start typing there is a drop down and this category isn't present for us? Nowhere near.This is what the client does and I can't work out howe to get it in the page?
Anyone else had this problem.
Thanks
Gareth
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Hi - the category has been defunct I've been told (by someone in the Adwords team).
There was an update expanding categories but some where dropped and this is why this is no longer present.
Thanks for all of your help
Cheers
gareth
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Hi Irving,
Thanks for your help.
The competition all have the same description - literally everyone of them. For us the category simply isn't available as a variant or exactly as they have it. I've not seen this before and Can't see why Google won't allow it?
Any ideas?
Thanks
Gareth
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They want you to conform to what they have available so try "home" or some other keyword that describes your niche until you find one they have in their database dropdown.
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