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Thanks for your feedback Daniel. We've tried this before, but with our volume + limited access to the actual business owners, its very difficult. Again, I don't believe this is a IP issue. The same thing happened to competing company's clients in our vertical that are smaller than ours (including some individual consultants that wouldn't trip an IP filter), within the same 48 hour period.

Thanks for your response.  I know they can track IPs, but this appears to be something different.  It hit our clients, and our competitors clients, on the same day.

I am thinking they targeted our vertical for some reason.

Also, many but not all accounts were affected.

Smells like there's more to this story than just "IP volume tracking", since we deal with that and similar volume issues often (like using the same ph# repeatedly for verification).

Over the past 24 hours many of our clients have had their Google accounts suspended. The explanation has been:

"After reviewing your profile, we determined that it has been used to impersonate another individual or mislead other users. This violates the Google+ User Content and Conduct Policy."

We are NOT impersonating our clients, we have their permission.  We are not misleading anyone, simply setting up profiles for our clients on Google+.

This has not affected all of our clients, but a significant number of them.  We cannot find a common variable between the clients that have been suspended, and those who have not.

• Some have had other Google+ profiles in the past, in another account, some have not.
• Some have been previously verified via SMS, others by phone.
• Some have posts in their profile, others have only the profile info filled out.

Again, we are not trying to game Google, we are simply setting up authorship for them, with their permission.

I have not seen much in the SEO community about this today, and this is NOT related to fake reviews.  We do not partake in that kind of activity.

We have written a post on the topic, and no matter how this shakes out, I think our take is solid.  Authorship is changing the game, content is changing the game, trust is changing the game… and Google is getting serious about it.

We have also seen this happen to our clients, to our competitors' clients, and to other marketing firms' clients, outside of our vertical.

Does anyone know more about the topic, especially in regards to the suspensions over the past 24 hours?