{"id":7777,"date":"2026-05-09T04:12:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=7777"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:12:51","slug":"google-business-profile-suspensions-spike-over-user-account-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=7777","title":{"rendered":"Google Business Profile Suspensions Spike Over User Account Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-account-restricted-header-1777913428.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Account Restricted Header\" title=\"Google Business Profile Suspensions Spike Over User Account Restrictions\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Google seems to be suspending Google Business Profiles due to user account restrictions. There may have been a wave of suspensions over the past several days related to this issue and local SEO experts are unclear if this is a bug or some other issue.<\/p> <p>Vinay Toshniwal posted about this on LinkedIn the other day and said, &#8220;In the last 24 hours, I\u2019ve seen 8 accounts get restricted \u2014 including one of mine.&#8221;<\/p> <p>Then several other local SEOs also said they saw the same thing including Claudia Tomina who wrote:<\/p> <blockquote><p>I personally had two suspensions this morning due to user accounts restricted. When I ask my clients what they did they say nothing unusual. Its just a personal email account. Nothing more. Not leaving reviews not suggesting edits.<\/p><\/blockquote> <p>Elijah Day wrote:<\/p> <blockquote><p>I am also having an issue with this. Clean domain. Never any spam. Everything clean to the letter. <\/p><\/blockquote> <p>Zulqarnain Ali Syed wrote:<\/p> <blockquote><p>I also faced the same issue.<\/p><\/blockquote> <p>I am not seeing a huge number of complaints specific to user account restrictions in the Google Business Profiles forum, so I am not sure how widespread this issue is.<\/p> <p>I am not sure, but this may be a screenshot of such a suspension &#8211; again, I am not 100% sure:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-business-profile-account-restricted-1777913881.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Business Profile Account Restricted\" title=\"Google Business Profile Suspensions Spike Over User Account Restrictions\u63d2\u56fe1\" \/><\/p> <p>You can submit an appeal using this form.<\/p> <p>Forum discussion at LinkedIn.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p>#Google #Business #Profile #Suspensions #Spike #User #Account #Restrictions1778271171<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google seems to be suspending Google Business Profiles due to user account restrictions. There may have been a wave of suspensions over the past several days related to this issue and local SEO experts are unclear if this is a bug or some other issue. Vinay Toshniwal posted about this on LinkedIn the other day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4527,261,75,1802,5727,5442,18749,5011],"class_list":["post-7777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-account","tag-business","tag-google","tag-profile","tag-restrictions","tag-spike","tag-suspensions","tag-user"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}