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Katerina Gasset
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Your question is saying Google + page - are you sure you are not referring to your Google My Business page? Those are two different platforms even though they have now attached Google MY Business pages to Google + accounts. You would only have reviews on a google my business ( + google maps) not on a google + page. 

If you are referring to Google My Business pages:

This happens when you have duplicate pages. Some people have duplicate pages through no fault of their own while others did it years ago for SEO benefits setting up different google business pages for different keywords. This is also against their TOS.

Some people with duplicate pages stay on for years with no adverse actions and others get one of the pages terminated, like what happened to you. 

There does not seem to be a steadfast rule about which page will get shut down. THe one with the reviews is the one we of course would all want to keep. But as you can see by what happened to Ginny Gorman they will even take down your page with the reviews even when you show them the other one does not have reviews. 

Most of these situations happen from actions we all took back in the day. When they change their TOS , they expect us to drop everything to read the TOS whenever it is changed. 

One of the other main reasons google my business pages get terminated is because of duplicate addresses. If your broker or owner of the company claims and verifies their address, then you as the agent can not claim the same address. 

There are 2 kinds of suspensions. To check to see if you have the one that is easy to solve, start another listing and get it verfied. Make sure you request to be sent the postcard with the verfication code instead of a text. It takes about 2 weeks to get it. Then verfiy the account and see if that works. 

They won't tell you what rule you broke. SO dont' wast your time trying to find out from google. 

Make sure that when you enter your website URL that you use a direct website URL and not a redirect of a forwarding. So no vanity URLs. 

Make sure you are NOT using any keywords in your business name or as an extention of the name. This is what we used to do in 2010 - 2014. But now you are not allowed to do that at all and you will get suspended if they find out. There are snitches out there who like to tattle tail, don't put it past your competitors either to flag your account. 

Hope that helps. Katerina 

 

Nov 17, 2016 12:36 PM
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Where is Nestor & Katerina Gasset Katerina?  She will know.

Nov 16, 2016 10:23 AM
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Ginny Gorman
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Unfortunately, Andrea Swiedler that happened to me over a year ago and I went to bat numerous times with Google unsuccessfully.  They actually took down my page that had many Google reviews too which I lost & they would not re-instate.  I have a business page for my primary business now, another town's real estate page & a personal page.  Rebuild what you have there now because you will be wasting time with them.  I had my web master involved too but to no avail.  

Nov 16, 2016 09:07 PM
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Nina Hollander, Broker
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Hi Andrea... I don't have a clue... I pay little attention to Google+ and pretty much only post my AR blogs to there. Sorry to hear you are going through this.

Nov 16, 2016 08:00 PM
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Barbara Todaro
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Fred's right....ask Katerina.... I assure you she will have the answer....

Nov 16, 2016 07:55 PM
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Michael Jacobs
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I'm sorry this has happened to you, Andrea.  The extent of my usage of Google+ is for AR posts.  Hopefully you can get this resolved soon.  

Nov 16, 2016 08:45 PM
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Michael J. Perry
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I only use G+ to send my new blog posts to

Nov 16, 2016 07:18 PM
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Inna Ivchenko
Barcode Properties - Encino, CA
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I looked quickly at answers, seems no one had such experience. I hope, it was just a mistake and you'll get your page shortly. But do share what have happened if you find out. 

Nov 16, 2016 04:04 PM
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Endre Barath, Jr.
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sounds like a scam... did you log in through the normal channels?? or possibly were you taken over by a phishing scam? just thinking out loud, Endre

Nov 16, 2016 03:53 PM
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Praful Thakkar
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Andrea Swiedler - was it hacked by someone? This is something that I have never heard of. Was it a profile page or business page?

Here are couple of links that may throw some light at this problem -

Google+ Profile Suspensions - Google+ Help

Top 9 reasons Google suspends local listings - Search Engine Land

I am sure you should be able to resolve it.

Nov 16, 2016 03:40 PM
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 Platinum Properties
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I have heard of people having their Facebook pages suspended but not Google+. Contact them and find out what happened. We may all be doing the same thing.

Nov 16, 2016 12:38 PM
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Jeff Dowler, CRS
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That REALLY is a mystery. Good luck getting in touch and getting it straightened out. Knowing you as I do I cannot imagine what might have happened!

Nov 16, 2016 12:29 PM
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
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Google keeps changing their algorithms.  I hope you do find out.  Goodl luck getting a hold of them.  A

Nov 16, 2016 11:54 AM
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Lise Howe
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zPlease let us know what happened when you find out

Nov 16, 2016 11:49 AM
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Joe Pryor
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Hadn't paid attention to Google+ in a long time. 

Nov 16, 2016 10:56 AM
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Lyn Sims
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I am very familiar with them & what possibly could you have done?

I will say that I got busted for having 2 sites with the same address which I had to change up. You can ask what is the problem by email & eventually I wrote with a supervisor that helped.  It was for our office vs my personal page. I put my name first & all was solved.

Nov 16, 2016 11:03 PM
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Jennifer Mackay
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Good luck - it's at their whim - obviously I'm not a fan of G at all!

However, my advice is hire someone who will know and save yourself a lot of time and headache so you can focus on real estate!

Nov 16, 2016 10:42 PM
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Double check the link, it sounds like a lot of the alarmist notices that we get from phishing scams.

Nov 16, 2016 11:13 AM
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Wow!! What in the world did you do??

Nov 16, 2016 10:49 AM
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Debbie Laity
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What are the google reps saying you did. I can't see you violating a user policy. 

Nov 16, 2016 10:33 AM
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Olga Simoncelli
Veritas Prime, LLC dba Veritas Prime Real Estate - New Fairfield, CT
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That's strange; can't imagine what happened. i have not experienced it.

 

Nov 16, 2016 10:27 AM
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Patricia Kennedy
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Oh, Andrea!  Clearly you did something that frightened cows!

Nov 16, 2016 10:11 AM
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William Feela
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It is hard to say, was ther a compalint?

Nov 16, 2016 09:40 AM
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Caroline Gerardo
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Things you could get TOS tossed for: copyright infringement (someone complains you used their photograph without permission) hate speech (probably not the reason in your case) duplication of address or sites- more than one identity from same ISPN - landing page that secretly grabs visitor information, posting illegal substances or images (not that I'm sure) ...there are a couple 100 things they restrict.  it is still up- https://plus.google.com/+AndreaSwiedler is there more than one?

Nov 17, 2016 06:03 AM
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Sandy Padula & Norm Padula, JD, GRI
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Never had a G+ post pulled. Guess I'd better read their policies.

Nov 16, 2016 10:53 PM
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Tony and Suzanne Marriott, Associate Brokers
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Has not happened to us

Nov 16, 2016 09:23 PM
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Richard Weeks
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Sorry I don't use that product.  Good luck.

Nov 16, 2016 09:06 PM
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James Dray
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I post to it everyday and so far, knock on wood, no issues

Nov 16, 2016 08:23 PM
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Gita Bantwal
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I have not checked my google page.

Nov 16, 2016 08:07 PM
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Perhaps it was somehow hijacked or hacked and the results caused it to be offside.

Nov 16, 2016 03:45 PM
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Sam Shueh
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Andrea Swiedler 

I suggest you write a new blog see if you can add to G+ and show on Google. Anything coming from AR is not common lately....

Like it or not G+ is the only link that most of our blogs are shown. They only allot two not 100s others blogged before.

However, under MSN I find you and AR again. 

"https://plus.google.com/+AndreaSwiedler"

Litchfield plenty of links, and AR has a rating on you 3.5 out 5.....

Nov 16, 2016 01:25 PM
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This is the first I have heard of this...

Nov 18, 2016 04:25 AM
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Lots of interesting answers here and as Barbara states Nestor and Katerina seem to really nail it down for you.  Mark

Nov 17, 2016 07:52 PM
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Write a post to mr google and see what he says.....about this.

Nov 17, 2016 12:55 PM
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
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Oh, Andrea Swiedler, I'm so sorry you're going through this!  Do let us know the outcome.

Nov 17, 2016 12:02 PM
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Will Hamm
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Wow, what did you do.

Nov 17, 2016 09:32 AM
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Sorry, I have no idea why they would do that.

Nov 17, 2016 03:05 AM
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If you owned the URL and was redirecting to G+, you win!

If you used their URL and gave them your content, you lose!

Since you use it very little, it matters not at all.

Do not allow what matters LITTLE to take up your time, energy and thoughts. You are already over invested in this regard.

Why?  'Cause Big G can do whatever they want.

 

Nov 17, 2016 01:16 AM
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Andrea,  I am so sorry this happened to you.  Good Grief. I have not had it happen.  I do hope you are able to get the issue resolved soon.  

Nov 16, 2016 11:30 PM
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Gabe Sanders
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Hasn't happened to me (yet).  I wonder why?

Nov 16, 2016 11:18 PM
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Michael Setunsky
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Andrea Swiedler Google has spoken. I hope you didn't lose any sleep over this.

Nov 16, 2016 10:45 PM
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Susan Haughton
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I cannot imagine you doing anything to violate any TOS.  I have not been on there in months and months, so I am not much help but that sounds crazy to me.  I had a friend whose FB page was duplicated and when her friends started reporting the fraudulent page, HER page got suspended by mistake.  Sometimes crazy things like that do happen.  Please let us know what happens. 

Nov 16, 2016 10:26 PM
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Let us know what you find out Andrea.

Nov 16, 2016 10:19 PM
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Richie Alan Naggar
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No wonder they are floundering. What in the world could Andrea Swiedler do?

Nov 16, 2016 10:06 PM
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Wayne Martin
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Don't use it, so can't help! Sorry!

Nov 16, 2016 09:59 PM
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Roy Kelley
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I hope you are able to resolve this issue and blog about your experience.

Nov 16, 2016 09:42 PM