If you are trying to add a new business to Google Business Profiles today, you may encounter difficulties. When you arrive on the screen where you add your phone number and website address, Google will not allow you to take the next step.
It is not clear if there is a problem with telephone numbers in general, which can cause this bug, or not. But there are also companies that point out that their phone numbers are deleted and also rejected from their Google commercial profiles.
More details. As noteOn this screen, the “next” button, will simply not take you to the next screen:
Google Product Expert, Vinay Toshniwal, wrote In Google Business Profile forums:
I have encountered several articles on users faced with problems when creating a Google corporate profile, especially where the “following” button does not respond after entering the telephone number and the website details.
Please note that I have already intensified this problem with the Google team. I will share all the updates here as soon as I receive more information.
Vinay Toshniwal too note These phone numbers disappear from certain Google business profile lists.
Why we care. If you are trying to get a new business added to Google’s commercial profiles and meet this problem, you should know that it has an impact on everyone. There seems to be a bug with Google where you cannot add new businesses at the moment. I suspect it will be set in the coming hours or days.
Fixed. I am told that it is now resolved: