Content by fisicx in January, 2026

Yes, they will take action in response to media reports but it's a token effort. If they were serious this thread wouldn't exist as all profiles would be compliant.

Even worse when those speakers still churn out the same old myths and misinformation.

I agree that it's all wrong. But until it affect the shareholders dividends there is no real incentive for Google to do anything. Google makes no money from providing the GBP service other than from the data it sells.

In person is great because you can meet other people, make connections and be sociable. Virtual also works because you can have it playing in the background while you get on with other things. With both poor speakers who waffle on without getting to the point will make me leave both live and...

Google makes money by selling advertising and data (plus cloudy and other non-search engine services). They don't make money from local profile listings or the organic results. These are freebies they provide to trap you into using and becoming reliant on their services. Google doesn't really...

How much traffic do you get from Bing?

Imagine Google is a real person. They will look for pricing info in the profile and/or visit the website for local plumbers and see if there is any pricing information. They may then call to check availability and get an estimate. If everything aligns Google may well include the business in the...

That the same URL I used - no results. But a local search now returns results (it didn't the other day). If I then try to find someone In Germany - no results. So it looks like Google is limiting the search to local areas. Which may cause issues for the account managers working overseas or...

Tried doing a local search - again zero results.

But when I do that search @keyserholiday I get zero results:

If revising the content with significant updates then changing the date can help. But so can putting the date in the content next to the updated content can also work. Another technique that can work is leaving the old content in place but then create a whole new page with the updates. You link...

The problem here is dilution. Google looks at the whole package and will be expecting bathroom remodelling to be predominate on the GBP, website, social media, directories and everywhere else. If you have a whole bunch of other quite valid services on everything except the profile there will be...