Google: Shortnames Suspension Bug Should Be Fixed In 48 Hours?

Jul 25, 2019 - 7:37 am 0 — by
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Over the past few weeks or so there has been lot of rumors around why those suspensions have happened. Google has not be exactly clear about the issue but they did say they restored the suspended listings. That was not true and we waited.

Now, Candour shared on Twitter a screen shot of Google My Business saying the shortnames connected bug with suspensions should be resolved soon, probably within 48 hours. The direct message reads "our engineering team has conformed that there was a technical issue connected to short names that is in profess of being fixed. If however, you are still experiencing the issue after 48 hours, please reply here with your dashboard URL."

Here is a screen shot from yesterday:

Google Message

And Google said previously the two were unrelated. Hmm...

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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