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Google Says Its Algorithms Aren’t Lazy & Don’t Take Time Off

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6 months ago

April 2, 2022

Google Says Its Algorithms Aren't Lazy & Don't Take Time Off

Google’s John Mueller responded to a complaint that Google’s search algorithms around crawling and indexing are being lazy. John said on Twitter “algorithms like those used for crawling & indexing don’t take time off to play pool or to drink more coffee; they’re always working.”

This was in response to a comment John made, which he made numerous times, that if you are noticing indexing issues, it might not be a technical issue but rather an issue with your site’s quality.

Here is the context:

Or it may just be Google’s being lazy.
I’ve experienced indexing problems on a website where quality was built in right from the start. Every URL was designed with the search user in mind, no tech issues, etc.
Still, 50% of URLs are crawled not indexed from Jan up until now.
🤷‍♂️
— Martino Mosna (@martinomosna) March 22, 2022

John’s response:

Algorithms like those used for crawling & indexing don’t take time off to play pool or to drink more coffee; they’re always working. If they’re currently not working on your site, they’re working on a site they feel is more important. Convince them that they’re missing out.
— 🐐 John 🐐 (@JohnMu) March 22, 2022

Now, the person who said that was half joking, he knows how Google does not index everything.

But some might not know this, that Google’s algorithms really do not take a break. And if you think Google’s algorithms are being lazy on your site, maybe you need to take another look. “If they’re currently not working on your site, they’re working on a site they feel is more important. Convince them that they’re missing out,” John wrote.

Of course there are bugs and issues that come up from time to time but those are more rare and outliers.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

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Unusual Spike In Google Business Profile Insights Traffic For Some

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2 hours ago

October 5, 2022

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There are some reports that in some industries, like the auto dealership industry, there is a bug with Google Business Profile insights reporting. There shows a large and unaccounted-for spike in traffic from Google Local and Google Maps for some of these businesses in these Google reports.

There are two threads about this in the Local Search Forums – I spotted this via @keyserholiday. One local SEO named George Nenni wrote, “We track GBP searches, views and actions for around 200 new car retailers, through a Jepto API into Data Studio. We are noticing more than half of these profiles received strange spikes in searches and views, but not actions. It is the same data we are seeing directly in the GBP dashboard (attached). We track separate profiles for sales, service, parts and body shop departments for each dealer. The issue is only happening with the nested department listings.”

He shared this chart from the Insights report in Google Business Profiles:

Another local SEO, Annika Neudecker wrote, “We track our GBP insights for our locations every month to watch growth and trends over time. I pulled my September data this morning and found a very curious change in the reported searches. It appears that the reported Direct searches increased significantly (about +1 mil) while Discovery searches fell by nearly exactly the same amount. This makes me wonder if Google has switched up how it counts Direct and Discovery searches for GBP listings. We haven’t made any changes to our listings which would prompt a big change in how they’re being found.”

Jason Brown thinks it might be a bug or maybe both. He said, “Bots or bug? Car dealerships saw huge spikes in views, but no clicks.”

I am guessing bots?

Forum discussion at Local Search Forums.

Source: www.seroundtable.com