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In addition to reporting the duplicate, you can claim it (if you have access to the phone number listed or the address) and then deactivate it. This is much faster.
Get reviews (from real customers) as David mentioned above, go after and correct citations, and make sure you're on all the popular review sites like Yelp. It would be great if you also had reviews on the review sites as well.
It looks like you got this resolved. We went through something similar many years ago but we were lucky because our website is for the US only. The attack was coming in from China, Russia and several other European countries.
We simply blocked all countries except the US, Mexico and Canada in our Firewall.
You just need to identify the one common factor in the attack and filter that out through your firewall.
In addition to reporting the duplicate, you can claim it (if you have access to the phone number listed or the address) and then deactivate it. This is much faster.
Get reviews (from real customers) as David mentioned above, go after and correct citations, and make sure you're on all the popular review sites like Yelp. It would be great if you also had reviews on the review sites as well.
It looks like you got this resolved. We went through something similar many years ago but we were lucky because our website is for the US only. The attack was coming in from China, Russia and several other European countries.
We simply blocked all countries except the US, Mexico and Canada in our Firewall.
You just need to identify the one common factor in the attack and filter that out through your firewall.
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