Eight of nine wrong listings gone. Still gone at the last check.
A specialty auto shop found itself listed as the wrong kind of business on directory sites across one company's network. We traced it to nine wrong listings, all run by that one company. The owner had spotted two of them. The other seven were there too.
What we did.
In mid-July 2026, we sent the directory company one email. It named all nine wrong listings and asked for a correction or a removal of each one. No new website, ad campaign or monthly plan was part of this fix.
A week later, eight of the nine were gone. We checked again six weeks after the email, and again at a late-September 2026 check. Every one of those eight removals held. The ninth listing was still up at the last check. It needs a second request, or the owner's own account, to come down.
The record.
Nine wrong listings, tracked from before the email to the last check. Listings are numbered, not named.
| Listing | Before | One week later | Late September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listing 1 | Listed | Gone | Gone |
| Listing 2 | Listed | Gone | Gone |
| Listing 3 | Listed | Gone | Gone |
| Listing 4 | Listed | Gone | Gone |
| Listing 5 | Listed | Gone | Gone |
| Listing 6 | Listed | Gone | Gone |
| Listing 7 | Listed | Gone | Gone |
| Listing 8 | Listed | Gone | Gone |
| Listing 9 | Listed | Still listed | Still listed |
Reconstructed from dated checks, not a screenshot of the directory pages. Listing identities are withheld so the business stays private.
How we checked.
A directory page can still load after a business listing comes off it, so a working page was never proof by itself. We checked the page text for the business name, phone number and address. On the eight corrected pages, none of the three appeared. The ninth still showed all three, which also confirmed our method would catch a listing that stayed up.