What if a search for my business triggers Did you mean?

Alex B in Indianapolis has a good question. Alex says, “When I do a Google search for my business name, Google suggests “Did you mean:” with some other company name. Is there anything we can do to keep that from happening?”

Not that I know of atleast not right now, there is nothing where we a have a form that you can fill out and say this is bad. You can try finding our various helpful web forms and reporting it there. But the hope is that overtime we learn that sort of things automatically. So we have data pushes of content and then we try to iterate and improve, so I don’t have a good answer in terms of, like here’s the simple form that you can fill out. But hopefully overtime Google learns that this suggestion is not as helpful or this isn’t real business. Anything that you can do to build the reputation of your business so it’s more well known so you got a lot of links pointing to you and you are more easily found on the web. These are all the signals that say oh this is a really valid query, so it’s not something that we need to show as spelling suggestion for. But there is no other special form that you can fill out or anything as far as I know. Sorry!

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