Someone Could Be Marking the Business 'Closed' Right Now

Google's own transparency report says users made 94 million edits to Google Maps in 2024 alone. The most targeted changes? Business names, addresses, phone numbers, and hours which is exactly the information for Google to rank you when customers try to find and contact you. So yes, it's necessary if you want to stay visible to customers searching for your services.

Protection stops anyone from marking your business 'permanently closed,' changing your phone number, address, or business name through Google's 'Suggest an edit' option. Our automated tool catches and reverses these changes within 15 minutes. So if someone tries to sabotage your listing when you're getting breakfast or a cup of coffee, it's probably fixed before you're done.

You'll still get Google's automatic email when someone suggests an edit to your business info. But here's the thing! By the time you see that email, we've probably already checked if the change was legitimate and reversed it if it wasn't.

When you make changes to your Business Profile from a connected Google account, our tool recognizes these as legitimate updates and won't reverse them. You keep complete control over your business information. Protection only blocks unauthorized changes from external accounts.

When you connect your Google Business Profile to Localo, you turn on the switch in the All profiles view, and that's it! Once it's on, it runs automatically in the background. You can turn it on or off anytime, but most users keep it running continuously for peace of mind.

Totally, yes. Turn on Protection for every Google Business Profile you want from the All profiles view, and that's that. It's like having a security guard at every location, doing vigilant rounds every 15 minutes.