u/Academic_Lecture_479

You hear always that GBP optimization is the most important thing you can do, and everyone should aim for having the best GBP among their competitors. But when you actually search through google, 90% of businesses have low number of reviews, it's like they never care about it and as if a very minimal profile will do just fine. It made me ask, if this is all just a bubble, like if it was this strong of a thing, and people who have the best profile would translate to revenue for them, all their competitors would fight to enhance theirs, especially with many AI tools in the market that can do that with relatively low price. Also what seemed very shady, is the fact that the majority of people believing the GBP supremacy, tend to be most of time bots.

Can someone explain this to me? I'm new to Upwork, and as i was scrolling down the offers, I saw this, and as soon as i read it, i was laughing in disbelief. Like is this real? Am i missing something here? Is this a negotiating tactic that is used among Upwork users? And what continued to amaze me that are people are having a bidding war over this offer, with 20+ proposals in few hours, like lol what is happening. Like even for developers that come from "not very high paying" countries, can't take such an offer in a million years. The project suggested take months to be executed perfectly. Its like paying someone 0.01$ hourly. And even if someone took the job, what does this "experienced client" expect to have as a quality for his 100$? Can someone open my eyes to what is happening here

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