3,069,116
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
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
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Ginny Gorman
North Kingstown, RI
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Barbara Todaro
Franklin, MA
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
2,703,912
Where is Nestor & Katerina Gasset Katerina? She will know.
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Debbie Laity
Cedaredge, CO
1,942,395
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.
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
5,282,877
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.
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
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Susan Haughton
Alexandria, VA
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
5,584,228
Fred's right....ask Katerina.... I assure you she will have the answer....
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
4,717,610
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.
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Susan Haughton
Alexandria, VA
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
2,245,257
I only use G+ to send my new blog posts to
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Michael J. Perry
Lancaster, PA
1,646,171
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.
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
4,676,062
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
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
4,322,035
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.
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
3,988,138
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.
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
5,153,520
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!
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
5,774,095
Google keeps changing their algorithms. I hope you do find out. Goodl luck getting a hold of them. A
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
2,434,228
zPlease let us know what happened when you find out
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
1,713,581
Hadn't paid attention to Google+ in a long time.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
1,868,818
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.
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
1,007,123
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!
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Susan Haughton
Alexandria, VA
6,657,745
Double check the link, it sounds like a lot of the alarmist notices that we get from phishing scams.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
5,247,642
Wow!! What in the world did you do??
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
2,234,859
What are the google reps saying you did. I can't see you violating a user policy.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
919,813
That's strange; can't imagine what happened. i have not experienced it.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
3,763,935
Oh, Andrea! Clearly you did something that frightened cows!
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
3,986,423
It is hard to say, was ther a compalint?
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
424,263
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?
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
1,749,177
Never had a G+ post pulled. Guess I'd better read their policies.
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Susan Haughton
Alexandria, VA
3,074,289
5,092,247
Sorry I don't use that product. Good luck.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
3,627,372
I post to it everyday and so far, knock on wood, no issues
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
4,434,227
1,157,841
Perhaps it was somehow hijacked or hacked and the results caused it to be offside.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
1,259,983
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.....
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
4,273,331
917,165
Lots of interesting answers here and as Barbara states Nestor and Katerina seem to really nail it down for you. Mark
3,652,928
5,461,544
Oh, Andrea Swiedler, I'm so sorry you're going through this! Do let us know the outcome.
5,174,959
1,534,714
921,504
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.
3,419,999
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.
4,800,282
1,466,257
Andrea Swiedler Google has spoken. I hope you didn't lose any sleep over this.
1,027,657
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.
2,298,944
2,839,348
No wonder they are floundering. What in the world could Andrea Swiedler do?
5,455,834
8,120,214
I hope you are able to resolve this issue and blog about your experience.