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Rohan Thakare

Rohan Thakare

Senior Strategist, Local Owl
Bronze Product Expert

50+ replies and 10+ community-recommended answers in Google's Business Profile Help Community

Rohan Thakare is a senior strategist at Local Owl and a Bronze Product Expert in Google's Business Profile Help Community, where he answers owners' questions every week.

2 posts by Rohan Thakare

Business owner researching Google Business Profile categories and business types before creating a listing
Profile lifecycle

No Google Business category fits? Choose before you verify

How to pick your Google Business Profile business type and primary category when nothing fits, and avoid failed verification or a deceptive-content suspension.

Rohan Thakare
August 26, 202610 min
Hotel exterior and pool, the kind of property whose Google hotel class star rating gets assigned automatically
Bugs

Hotel star rating wrong on Google? Who sets it, and the fix

Google assigns hotel class ratings from official classifiers, booking-site data, and machine learning. You can't edit the stars yourself. Here's the fix path.

Rohan Thakare
August 22, 202610 min

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