Ten pack anyone?

Brand recognition is the best way to deal with this upcoming onslaught.

Google just added a significant new rule to the Business Profile Guidelines: Businesses selling products or services with minimum age requirements (e.g. alcohol, cannabis) MUST have a storefront. 1/3

First time seeing these sections before. They are accordions and just show additional blue links when opened.

Today we released the August 2024 core update. It continues our work to improve the quality of our search results by showing more content that people find genuinely useful and less content that feels like it was made just to perform well on Search. https://t.co/T6Qt0JUoWt

In case you're wondering, that test that @randfish had us do on the webinar with @iPullRank where a few hundred people searched "vietnamese restaurant seattle" and clicked on the Google Business profile for a specific business. This is how they rank right now. 🤯

Maybe it's the roll out of this announcement: https://t.co/EdlAh4bkJM

Have not seen this before...ads after the 2nd position:

😱This new spamming technique is BONKERS. I just escalated a thread on the forum, so hopefully Google fixes it soon. Several businesses with completely different addresses are all now showing up pinned at the same location. I think there is a good chance this is intentional.

Is Google going to kill Google Posts? 😱 Yesterday, @StefanSomborac shared a screenshot from an updated Google support doc, stating: "some businesses may find their social media posts surfaced on their Business Profile automatically." @krystal_taing posted a video on LinkedIn

Haven't seen this before. It's a popup when leaving reviews on a GBP and mentions "beta questions." Anyone know more, perhaps @rustybrick ?

Google has confirmed that the driving directions anomaly was a bug. "We recently identified a bug that caused inaccurate numbers in the Direction metric for the timeframe Jan 17th - Feb 9th. The data has now been corrected, so if you downloaded the data for external use, please

Ouch. https://t.co/wqMq3nUpgb

Valentine's Day Maps Massacre

Citation consistency has NOT mattered for SEO for over a decade. It used to matter a lot, but not anymore. So what changed? Well, in the early days of local search, Google had all the businesses in a standard database. In order to get the benefit of a citation, it was

Trouble writing a good description for your business in GBP? Fear not! Google's got you covered with their NEW AI feature which allows you to create an AI-powered business description #neat #GBP #seo https://t.co/dwbFaYxuif

🌟New Local Services Ads (LSA) categories:🌟 ➡️Audiologist ➡️Massage therapist ➡️Occupational therapist ➡️Orthopedic surgeon ➡️Plastic surgeon h/t @CPBarnard

🐞 Online Booking Button Bug 🐞 The current bug affects businesses using Fresha for their Google Business Profile online booking button. This bug only affects the online booking button from Maps, Desktop is fine. https://t.co/AggZviIT7E

You need to stop ignoring 3rd party review sites if you want to get more leads. Let me elaborate 🧵 Psst: @w2scott, you'll like this one. #localseo #seo

GBP has updated their product creation page. Previously, adding products manually without barcodes was the only option. Now, there's a new feature that allows adding products using a "wired scanner", which seems quite efficient and seamless. Although I have not tried it yet!