03/20/2026
My Google Business Profile got flagged as a scam… 2 days after I created it.
And the reason honestly blew my mind.
I don’t know if anyone else here has run into this, but when Google flags your business, they don’t actually tell you what you did wrong.
So we spent the last week playing detective.
Tweaking everything. Double-checking details. Even looping in Gemini to see if we were missing something obvious.
For context — we’re a real business. Real projects. Real clients. (I promise 😂)
After fixing everything we could think of, we submitted our appeal… feeling pretty confident.
Denied.
Back to the drawing board.
This time, digging deeper, the only explanation we could land on was this:
👉 We had too many 5-star reviews too fast.
When our profile finally went live, I did what I thought you’re supposed to do — I reached out to past clients, suppliers, partners… anyone we’d worked with — and asked for honest feedback.
And they showed up.
A lot of them.
All 5 stars.
Turns out… that can look suspicious to Google.
Some reviews got flagged. Then more. Then suddenly — the entire profile was gone.
In hindsight, it makes sense:
When you do great work for 18 months without a Google presence, then ask everyone at once to share their experience… it doesn’t look “natural” to an algorithm.
Lesson learned.
Still — I can’t help but laugh a little at the irony.
Do good work → get great reviews → get flagged as a scam.
Anyway — if anyone here has dealt with this, has advice, or (long shot) knows someone at Google… I’m all ears.
Would love to get our profile back up so people can actually find us when they search.
