Recent content by JS Girard

Ahhh. In my case it was a linkedin article and something on Search Engine Land.

Interesting. That wasn't present in the articles I saw (aside from one being a generic guest post kinda stuff)

I've now seen two things from two different people touting the idea that owner actions have a direct impact on ranking. Not on engagement, ranking. Things like uploading photos, making posts and answering reviews. Now don,t get me wrong. These are things that should be done, but I sure don't...

Usually the changes for threepacks are what I call "second order". it's not the rankings so much as google making... let's call them assignment decisions. i.e. whether a business should be on the right or not, whether a keyword ought to associate directly with a specific vertical, whether a...

Actually, the pin is already moved. Google is just being polite and letting you know it has done so. Note that there is no option to actually reject the edit. Not on the individual profile anyway. That's tuckered away in the multi-profile management dashboard (or however the hell google wants us...

Yes it is, see this other thread discussing precisely that feature. Annoying of google to be like "pleeeease let us bombard you with calls" about it, though.

May be limited. Can't reproduced in Montreal at all.

Follow up: turns out those email aren't sent to the agency account email (I couldn't be sure because we also transitioned from direct access to managed access at around the same time...). I was able to confirm by looking at our non-agency accounts that the original email did start in January 2026.

Is this an actual new email or just a rewording of the previous email? Going back (dealing with those emails is not part of my assigned tasks), I note that many link that google calls "broken" were clearly not. Before March 22, the emails said "Un lien de rendez-vous est brisé sur votre profil...

You can signal the unverified profiles so Google will remove them. @Phil Rozek's multiple report tactic has been very efficient for me in the past. Slightly less so now that I regularly encounter cases where clicking the submit button doesn't register. If their existence is not a problem for...

I have not seen it yet in Quebec. I think it might still be language or geographically restricted.

We have a client (mobile mechanic) getting calls from way outside their service zone. This is not a move issue, they still get normal call, google is just ranking them over an unusually large area. I've checked and double checked and the base optimisation is actually targeted fairly tightly at...

I assume there is no hard evidence this goes beyond the verification process? 'cause I believe it's been looked at for ranking before, hasn't it?

1. Technically yes, but a separate number is preferable for both tracking purposes and to minimize the risk of mergers. 2. Google has explicitly said that is what their hours are supposed to mean (which is why SABs can have hours beyond when they actually go out: as long as someone will answer...

It's been around longer than that. It's in the bug compendium I posted back in 2023 (listed as "Nonfunctional "confirm google suggestions" button bug"). I seem to recall the solution listed in that compendium doesn't work anymore though.