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Bach Brothers Excavating LLC

Getting your Google listing verified again

Here's the walkthrough I promised. I found the specific reason Google keeps rejecting your address, plus the way to get an actual Google employee on a video call with you.

About an hour of work A few days of waiting on Google Read it all once before you start

The one rule that matters most

Do not create a new listing.

Your current listing has 35 reviews at 5 stars. Those reviews are attached to that listing and only that listing. If you start a fresh one, they do not come with you and you start over at zero.

Everything below is about getting the listing you already have back under your control.

Why your address keeps getting rejected

You told me you have two addresses, and that's the whole thing right there.

Use this one
60 Shroud Cay Ct
DuBois, PA 15801
Where your house physically is. Mapping software finds it instantly, exact spot.
Never give Google this
917 Treasure Lake
DuBois, PA 15801
Where your mail goes. Comes back with nothing. It finds the Treasure Lake neighborhood and stops.

I ran both through mapping software to see what a computer does with them. 917 Treasure Lake cannot land on a specific property, because there's no road name in it. I tried a handful of other Treasure Lake numbers and got the same nothing every time. 60 Shroud Cay Ct comes back with your exact spot on the map.

That's the problem in one sentence: Google has to drop a pin on a map, it needs a road name and a house number to do that, and your mailing address gives it neither.

You're not the only one dealing with this. The property owners association office sits on Coral Reef Road but gets its mail as "13 Treasure Lake." Same building, two addresses. That's just how Treasure Lake is built.

The catch that would have blindsided you

Google is going to ask you for documents. Every official document you own has the mailing address on it, not the physical one. Your DOT registration says 917 Treasure Lake. Your contractor license says it. Your insurance almost certainly says it.

So you'd put 60 Shroud Cay Ct into Google, then hand them paperwork that says 917 Treasure Lake, and Google would reject you for it. Document mismatch is one of the most common reasons these get denied.

The fix is a utility bill. Electric, water, gas, internet. Almost every utility prints two addresses on it: the service address, which will be 60 Shroud Cay Ct, and the billing address, which will be 917 Treasure Lake. Both on one page.

That single page is the most valuable thing you have in this whole process. It proves, in one image, that those two addresses are the same property. Find it before you start anything else. If your bills don't show both, your Clearfield County property tax bill or your driver's license will work as backup.

One straight answer on how sure I am: I'm confident about the two-address problem and confident your mailing address won't map. What I can't see is inside your Google account, so I don't know for a fact that the mailing address is what's sitting in there right now. Step 1 tells us. If something else broke it, everything below still applies.

1

Find out what's actually wrong

5 min

Go here and sign in with the same Google account you originally used to set up the listing:

Check your verification status

It will tell you one of four things. Write down which one you get, because it changes what you do next.

Verified. You're actually fine and something else is going on. Text me.
Pending. Google is still reviewing. Do nothing, wait it out.
Needs verification. Most likely. Go to Step 2.
Suspended. Go to Step 7 first, then come back to Step 2.

If you're not sure which Google account owns the listing, go to business.google.com/add/info, start typing "Bach Brothers Excavating," and pick it from the dropdown. It'll tell you which account has it.

Send me a screenshot before you go further

I want the status from that tool, plus the exact wording of whatever error Google has been showing you. The specific words matter. "We couldn't verify your address" and "your profile has been suspended" are two completely different problems with two completely different fixes, and I don't want you burning verification attempts on the wrong one. Google limits how many tries you get.

Also tell me what you think you clicked that broke it, even if you're not sure. Marking the business closed, changing the name, or editing the address all kick a listing back into verification, and knowing which one narrows this down fast.

2

Fix your address and business type

15 min

Sign in at business.google.com and open your listing.

2a. Set yourself up as a service business, not a storefront

You don't have a shop customers walk into. You go to them. Google calls that a "service area business," and it has different rules.

This matters for two reasons. One, Google requires it for businesses like yours. Two, once your address is hidden, Google stops holding it to storefront standards, and a lot of the address trouble goes away.

2b. Enter the address as 60 Shroud Cay Ct

Google still needs an address on the back end even though the public won't see it. Type it exactly like this:

Address60 Shroud Cay Ct
DuBois, PA 15801

Not 917 Treasure Lake. Not both. Just that.

If Google still says it can't find it, don't fight it. There's a map on that screen. Drag the pin onto your property and drop it there. Google put that there for exactly this situation. If you want to be certain the pin is dead on, your house sits at 41.1502484, -78.7133051. Paste that straight into Google Maps to see the spot, then match your pin to it.

2c. Make everything match, everywhere

This is the part people skip and it's why most verifications fail. Google cross-checks your listing against your website, your license records, and everything else it can find. Any mismatch looks suspicious.

If any of that is off on your website, tell me and I'll fix it on my end same day.

3

Gather your documents before you try anything

20 min

Have these physically in hand before you start. You'll need to show them on camera, and you don't want to be digging through a filing cabinet while a Google rep sits there waiting.

How to handle the address mismatch

Most of that paperwork says 917 Treasure Lake while Google will say 60 Shroud Cay Ct. Don't try to hide it or hope nobody notices. Get out in front of it. Any time you're on camera or typing to a Google rep, say this plainly:

Say this"I'm in Treasure Lake, which is a gated community outside DuBois. Every property here has two addresses. My house is physically at 60 Shroud Cay Ct. My mail goes to 917 Treasure Lake. They're the same property. My utility bill shows both, and I can show you that right now."

Then show the utility bill. Reviewers see this kind of thing in gated communities and rural areas, and it's an easy yes once somebody explains it. It only turns into a rejection when the addresses don't match and nobody says why.

4

Try the shortcut first

Do this before Step 5

There's a fast path that sometimes skips the whole verification process. Google will occasionally verify you instantly if you already own your website in their system.

Here's the deal: I control the DNS for bachbrosdig.com. If you verify that domain in Google Search Console using the same Google account that owns your listing, Google may connect the dots and verify you on the spot.

What I need from you

Text me the Google account email that owns the listing. I'll send you a verification record to paste in, or I'll add it on my side, whichever's easier. Takes me five minutes.

Then go back to your listing and hit "Get verified." If the shortcut worked, you're done. If not, no harm done, move to Step 5.

5

Video verification, and how to not fail it

30 min

In your listing, click Get verified and pick the video option if it's offered.

One thing to know going in: Google decides which verification methods you get. Their own help page says the methods "are automatically determined by Google and can't be changed." So you may see video, live call, phone, email, postcard, or only some of those. Work with whatever it offers you.

Important: you record this live inside Google's tool. You cannot film something ahead of time and upload it. So plan it out first, then hit record and do it in one shot.

Rules

  • One continuous take, no cuts, no editing
  • At least 30 seconds. Two to three minutes is better.
  • Film in daylight
  • No other people's faces
  • No bank account numbers, tax IDs, or social security numbers on camera
  • Charge your phone and clear some storage first

Film it in this order

  1. Start at the road. Point the camera at the Shroud Cay Ct street sign and hold it until the name is clearly readable. Then get your house number, 60, on your mailbox or your house. Then pan around so Google can see the neighborhood. Do not skip this or rush it. This is how Google confirms you're standing where you said you'd be, and it's the single most common reason these videos get rejected.
  2. Walk toward your property without stopping the recording. Show the driveway, the house, the shop, wherever you actually run the business from.
  3. Show your equipment. This is your strongest card and most people underuse it. Excavator, skid steer, dump truck, trailer, whatever's on site. Get close on the door of your truck so your business name and your DOT number are readable.
  4. Open the truck and show the tools inside. Google wants to see real working equipment, not a parked vehicle.
  5. Show your paperwork, utility bill first. Hold each one steady and close enough to actually read. Start with the utility bill and say out loud, on camera, "this shows my service address is 60 Shroud Cay Ct and my mailing address is 917 Treasure Lake, same property." Then the contractor license, LLC registration, insurance certificate, an invoice. Name each one as you show it.
  6. Show that you're the one running it. Walk to wherever you do your paperwork and scheduling. Open your business email or your invoicing on your phone or laptop and show it on camera.
  7. Say your piece. At the end, on camera:
Closing line"This is Chris Bach, owner of Bach Brothers Excavating LLC. My shop is at 60 Shroud Cay Ct in DuBois, Pennsylvania. That's inside Treasure Lake, a gated community where every property has two addresses. My mail goes to 917 Treasure Lake, which is why you'll see that address on some of my paperwork. Same property, both of them. We're a service business and we travel to our customers throughout Clearfield and Jefferson counties."

Google reviews it within about 5 business days. If it gets rejected, they tell you specifically what was missing. Fix that exact thing and record it again. Google doesn't publish a hard cap on re-records, but attempts aren't infinite either, and profiles do end up stuck with "no more ways to verify." So don't guess at what went wrong. Send me the rejection wording and we'll fix the right thing.

6

Get a real Google person on a video call

This is the one you actually want, and it's the answer to your address problem, because you can explain it to a human instead of fighting a computer.

It's called Live Video Call verification. A Google support agent joins a live video call while you walk them around your property. They can see for themselves that you're real, and they can override the address issue on their end.

How to get it

Google Business support form

Two things to know. Live calls only happen during your listed business hours, so make sure your hours on the listing are right. And you have to be at your property during the call, with your equipment and your documents. Don't take it from the truck on a job.

Heads up so you're not surprised: there is no Google Business Profile support phone number. Google retired it years ago and everything runs through the support form now. Live video call and that form are the real ways to reach a person, and they do work.

7

Only if your listing says "Suspended"

If Step 1 told you the listing is suspended, do this before anything else.

Open the appeal form
  1. Sign in with the account that owns the listing
  2. Pick Bach Brothers Excavating and hit Continue
  3. Read the reason they give, then hit Submit Appeal
  4. Upload your documents

Two warnings on this one

  • Have every document scanned or photographed before you open the appeal. Google changed this recently and you may get either version: documents attached right inside the appeal form, or a separate evidence form that you have to finish within 60 minutes of opening it. Google's own help page still describes the 60-minute one. If you're ready before you start, both work the same and neither can bite you.
  • Do not create a new listing while the appeal is open. Google says this outright, and it'll get you denied.

Google says appeals take up to 5 business days. In practice they sometimes run a week or two, so don't panic if it goes quiet. If the appeal is denied, you get one more shot with new evidence at the second appeal form.

8

If you're stuck after all that

Google runs a public help forum staffed by people they call Product Experts. They're not Google employees, but the senior ones can push your case to the actual Google team, which is more than regular support can do.

Google Business help forum

Post your situation with the details: the business name, what happened, the two addresses and why, and what you've already tried. Answer every question they ask you, completely. That's the difference between getting escalated and getting ignored.

9

Start this now, it runs in the background

Separately from everything above, let's get your address properly into Google Maps. It takes weeks, so kick it off today and forget about it. Open the Google Maps app on your phone:

  1. Search "60 Shroud Cay Ct, DuBois, PA 15801"
  2. If it's wrong or missing, tap Suggest an edit or Add a missing address
  3. Fix the pin so it sits on your actual property
  4. Add a photo if it lets you

Reviews on these take anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of months. It won't solve your problem today, but it makes everything easier from here on.

The long-term fix

You mentioned the state and your driver's license fought you on this too. That's the same root problem showing up in a different place: too many of your official records carry only the mailing address.

Over the next few months, get 60 Shroud Cay Ct added to the records that currently only show 917 Treasure Lake. Your DOT registration is the big one, it lists 917 Treasure Lake as both your physical and your mailing address, and physical address is supposed to be where the business actually sits. Your contractor license and insurance are worth updating too.

You don't have to do it this week and it won't fix Google today. But every record you correct makes the next verification, the next license renewal, and the next insurance quote go smoother. Right now the wrong address is the one winning everywhere, and that's why this keeps happening to you.

The short version