Recent content by Tiggerito

We repeatedly had issues and came to the conclusion that they would silently not send postcards requested by users they did not trust. e.g. A user could create about 3 listings and get postcards, any more and the postcards never came. Solution was to create the listings from new users each time.

Sounds like you have a good testing/monitoring system in place. Maybe this is a change in how Google determines the snippet.

How are you testing the snippets? What Google shows varies by several factors including the query term used. I'm sure they are contantly tweeking those factors.

Your markup is valid and can cause rich snippets. A site: search on that page shows that. This typically means there is a quality issue with the page/site or a relevance issue with the queries you are testing it with. Or sometimes it can be the presence of a banned word. A good idea is to...

I'd read the review guidelines related to Local Businesses. I don't think using GMB reviews on your own site will make you eligible for rich snippets. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/review-snippet#technical-guidelines If the review snippet is for a local business or an...

There is the chance that these pages get shared. The system they are shared on are likely to use the title and meta description (or og tags) to create the snippet shown to other users.

The thread response is not from Google. Just a Google Product Expert :) I'd be interested to know if more people are seeing the merging.

In 2009 Google changed their nofollow system so the nofollow links ate their share of PageRank. I've not heard anything since about any change in that. However, things are not that simple anymore. e.g. There's the reasonable surfer model...

I think John Mueller would say for a site with only 1,200 products you will have no crawling issues. I would focus more on what is good for the user. How can you help them find what they need quickly? Maybe highlight those popular products/categories on the home page, menus, category pages...

Google have just added to their SpecialAnnouncement guidelines. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/special-announcements In SpecialAnnouncement you can use the announcementLocation property to reference the LocalBusiness it relates to. This could be an @id to a LocalBusiness...

Unfortunately the final response was that these reviews and images did not break any rules :-(

response was to report them all and wait at least 3 days. Then follow up if required.

Thanks, I've messaged GMB on Facebook.

At the end of last year an employee at one of my clients locations did something bad that made the news. This has triggered quite a few 1 star reviews, reviews with nasty comments and photos of the incident on other locations under the brand. Obviously affecting those other locations even...

I've just updated my article on this that now includes code that deals with Google Ads based links. Hopefully it's more helpful than my ramblings here. https://websiteadvantage.com.au/Google-Local-Business-Page-Tracking Edit: link added ~ djbaxter