Google told Search Engine Land they are pushing out a fix for the issues around business listings not being visible soon. They said the rumors around the shortnames causing the issues were not exactly true, saying it “was not directly tied to the short name feature.”

For the past few weeks or so, business listings started to appear to be suspended and reviews went missing as well – all around the same time of the shortnames release. So rumors spread that you should stay away from shortnames because maybe adding shortnames are causing these issues. The truth is, they are not.

Here is the statement Google sent Search Engine Land:

So hopefully things will come back to normal soon?

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Update: Now all should be fixed: