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Google Business Profile Services Showing Incorrect Pricing

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3 months ago

March 21, 2023

Google Business Profiles lets you see what business listings offer service-wise, they’ve been doing this for a while now, and now they seem to impact your local rankings. But what is new and scary is that Google is making up pricing for your services that are almost always incorrect and sometimes dangerous for that businesses.

Carrie Hill and Sukhjit S Matharu spotted this and posted a couple of examples, one from a client and one from some random business. In both cases, the pricing Google listed are incorrect. She said her client is not offering these services for free, despite what Google says. And her client’s competitors are not offering bed bug inspection for only $1 and $100.

Here is what Sukhjit S Matharu shared on Twitter, saying “when looking into a client’s services in their GBP, we noticed that some of the predefined services had a “free” label which we nor the client added.”

Here is what Carrie Hill shared on Twitter saying “Here’s another where pricing is arbitrarily added in – not from the client… certainly not correct!”

Joy Hawkins, a local SEO, also confirmed this is new.

I wonder if this is easy for the business to fix by going into their Google Business Profiles and editing their services. But I suspect most of these businesses have no clue Google added these prices to their services and it might lead to some bad reviews if a customer is charged or quoted more than what is listed in Google Search.

This reminds me when Google Local Service Ads estimated pricing, which upset many businesses.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

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Google Search Featured Snippets Tests Define Option On Words

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4 hours ago

June 6, 2023

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Google is testing the ability to click on a word in a featured snippet within Google Search and define that word. You can also copy the word, if you want. I think this is a Google Search test and maybe not a Chrome test.

This was spotted by Punit who posted a video of this in action on Twitter, here is a screenshot of this video:

Here is the video embed:

Google added “define” option to know definition of selected Term (popup)
CC: @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/X2ungN8EeW

— Punit (@Punit6008) May 30, 2023

The reason I think this is a Google Search test and not a Chrome test is because he lost his Google session and was not able to trigger it again. I can be wrong and this might be a Chrome test and not a Google Search test.

Google is also testing this in other areas of the search results:

Google SERP is testing define options for the definition of limited search terms. Define options are shown in featured snippets, people also ask, Sponsored ads, organic results description & Local business. Have you seen this.

cc- @rustybrick @JohnMu

For referance video- pic.twitter.com/4mKuZ7csRa

— Anuj thaker (@Anuj_Thaker03) May 31, 2023

🧵 cc- @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/RRsLsbgVhJ

— Khushal Bherwani (@b4k_khushal) June 1, 2023

Here Sharing with you some example including wikipedia pages, I doubt for chroma features, asking for Ctrl+Shift+X for select pic.twitter.com/JOx9DhLoJF

— Punit (@Punit6008) June 1, 2023

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Google Says Don’t Pick Cheap Domain On TLDs Overrun With Spam

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10 hours ago

June 6, 2023

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Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit, when it comes to SEO, do not pick a cheap domain on a TLD that is overrun with spam.

The question on Reddit was, “Does it matter for SEO if my site is .com / .site /or any other?” The individual added, “I still have the feeling that my site is not well indexed and wondering if the domain address can be the issue.”

John’s response makes it sound like the .site TLD is a spammy TLD that is a bit overrun by spammy sites.

So be careful which TLD you buy your new domain on, not all are equal.

How do you know which TLDs are spammy? Well, Spamhaus.org has a lot.

Forum discussion at Reddit.

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Google Working On AdSense & Google Analytics 4 Connector

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16 hours ago

June 5, 2023

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Google posted an update that it is currently working on linking your Google AdSense account with your Google Analytics 4 property as it offers with Universal Analytics 3.

The update was posted in this AdSense help document at the top and reads, “Google Analytics 4 update: We’re currently working on an update to allow you to link your AdSense account with Google Analytics 4. We’ll let you know when it’s ready. In the meantime, we encourage you to continue making the switch to GA4.”

This was spotted by Charles Farina on Friday who posted this screenshot of it on Twitter: