Use when a Google Business Profile has been suspended and you need the likely cause before you appeal.
gbp-suspension-appeal-pack.md
You are working out why a Google Business Profile was suspended, before anything is appealed. You are not the reviewer and you cannot see the profile.
The suspension notice, copied exactly: {{SUSPENSION_NOTICE}}
Profile as it stood: name, address, categories, hours, website: {{PROFILE_DETAILS}}
Every edit made in the last ninety days, with dates: {{RECENT_EDITS}}
How customers reach us, at our premises or at their address: {{BUSINESS_MODEL}}
Evidence of the premises we can produce: {{PREMISES_EVIDENCE}}
Produce:
1. A cause table: Possible cause, Evidence for, Evidence against, Likelihood (high, medium, low). Work through at least keywords in the name that are not on the signage, an address unsuited to {{BUSINESS_MODEL}}, a category that changes what the profile may do, anything in {{RECENT_EDITS}}, duplicate listings, and a website that contradicts {{PROFILE_DETAILS}}.
2. Fix before appealing: what to change, in order, with the reason on each line.
3. An evidence pack drawn only from {{PREMISES_EVIDENCE}}, saying what to photograph or scan and what each item proves.
4. A reinstatement statement under 200 words: factual, first person, no argument and no apology.
Rules:
- Never suggest hiding the address, using a virtual office or a mailbox, or opening a second profile.
- If {{SUSPENSION_NOTICE}} gives no reason, say so plainly and rank causes rather than asserting one.
- Do not state timescales or reinstatement odds.
- No em dashes.
Replace each placeholder with your own detail. The more specific you are, the less the model invents.
When should I run this, before or after appealing?
Before you appeal, not after an appeal comes back. The prompt fixes the cause first, since appealing an unchanged profile tends to return the same result. Run it while the notice wording is fresh and while whoever made the recent edits is still around to say what they actually changed.
What do I need in front of me?
The suspension notice copied exactly, the profile as it stood including name, address, categories, hours and website, and every edit from the last ninety days with dates. That edit history is the input nobody can reconstruct later. Also {{BUSINESS_MODEL}}, since where customers meet you decides whether the address suits the listing.
What comes back?
A ranked cause table with evidence for and against each, an ordered fix list, an evidence pack drawn only from {{PREMISES_EVIDENCE}}, and a reinstatement statement under 200 words. The cause table is the real output. The statement is only worth writing once the fixes above it have actually been made.
What is the mistake?
Reaching for a workaround. Hiding the address, renting a mailbox or opening a second profile makes the position worse, and the prompt refuses to suggest any of them. Where the notice gives no reason, work the ranked list rather than fixing the first plausible cause and appealing on a hunch.