They’re just “all in” on taking all the business now. No more Mr. Nice Google.
They’re stealing all the info search traffic, stealing hotel & travel bookings, stealing local maps type searches, stealing the domain of reviews away from review sites and stealing photos as always.
What’s the point of anyone creating content when they’re even stealing blog posts and putting the info directly into the results? (Google “schema markup hours” on Google.com)
The internet as we know it will soon all belong to Google, whether we created it or not.
Dave (425 comments)
Of note: In the last couple of years removing links to other sites was one of the issues that the EU dealt with Google. There was a compromise worked out I believe, although it took several iterations of Google suggesting alternatives before one was accepted.
We had tracked traffic from obscure sites wherein there were reviews. That link from Google has typically been available at the bottom of some information; not very visible, and probably not all that compelling for visitors.
Our net traffic from those named directories, many of which are well known in the world of Local SEO, for at least usage as citations; -> hardly any traffic at all. Virtually below minimal.
Its a change, I don’t personally see it as a big change. Where is a big change? Its the PAC and the greater spread of what people trying to be tactful call the Snack Pac, or more relevantly called the NO INFO PAC, because it doesn’t give users relevant information, and coincidentally starves smb’s of traffic. That’s why I call it the crap pac. 😉
Dave (425 comments)
You know what is additionally problematic about that move from the perspective of the smb???
Google removes the line from other review sites…..and dang….the google views/connections/links to competitors moves up a bit.
The knowledge box is controlled by google. Its not your best friend.
Reminds me of what the sage David Mihm once said and wrote: “Its Google’s world”.
Honestly I’m surprised they even offered that information in the first place. Today we had a client review meeting and went to review their Google Places for Business Dashboard and that feature was removed! After months of having it there it and using the feature it was mysteriously gone but led into the discussion with the client how Google is constantly modifying and changing their tools. Oh well, there are other ways to monitor where the “reviews from around the web” are being left.
I for one am glad. I’m a bit tired of all the reviews everywhere. Too many competitors give false negative reviews and it is a lot of work to keep on top of them all. The less publicity of reviews the better. I don’t mind legitimate reviews but the fraudulent ones are too time consuming to remove. A competitor left a bad review on Yelp for one of my clients and other review sites copied it. After I removed it from Yelp because its claims were obviously preposterous I then had to remove it from Bing and others which was harder to do than the Yelp.
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They’re just “all in” on taking all the business now. No more Mr. Nice Google.
They’re stealing all the info search traffic, stealing hotel & travel bookings, stealing local maps type searches, stealing the domain of reviews away from review sites and stealing photos as always.
What’s the point of anyone creating content when they’re even stealing blog posts and putting the info directly into the results? (Google “schema markup hours” on Google.com)
The internet as we know it will soon all belong to Google, whether we created it or not.
Of note: In the last couple of years removing links to other sites was one of the issues that the EU dealt with Google. There was a compromise worked out I believe, although it took several iterations of Google suggesting alternatives before one was accepted.
We had tracked traffic from obscure sites wherein there were reviews. That link from Google has typically been available at the bottom of some information; not very visible, and probably not all that compelling for visitors.
Our net traffic from those named directories, many of which are well known in the world of Local SEO, for at least usage as citations; -> hardly any traffic at all. Virtually below minimal.
Its a change, I don’t personally see it as a big change. Where is a big change? Its the PAC and the greater spread of what people trying to be tactful call the Snack Pac, or more relevantly called the NO INFO PAC, because it doesn’t give users relevant information, and coincidentally starves smb’s of traffic. That’s why I call it the crap pac. 😉
You know what is additionally problematic about that move from the perspective of the smb???
Google removes the line from other review sites…..and dang….the google views/connections/links to competitors moves up a bit.
The knowledge box is controlled by google. Its not your best friend.
Reminds me of what the sage David Mihm once said and wrote: “Its Google’s world”.
Matt,
Internet belongs to Google from long, long time…. and we should adapt to it!
Honestly I’m surprised they even offered that information in the first place. Today we had a client review meeting and went to review their Google Places for Business Dashboard and that feature was removed! After months of having it there it and using the feature it was mysteriously gone but led into the discussion with the client how Google is constantly modifying and changing their tools. Oh well, there are other ways to monitor where the “reviews from around the web” are being left.
Reading the comments sums things up pretty well —> “Not nice Google”
Fine with me… Google pages have limited out links to distracting ads that could potentially send customers to other sites. This is good news!
I for one am glad. I’m a bit tired of all the reviews everywhere. Too many competitors give false negative reviews and it is a lot of work to keep on top of them all. The less publicity of reviews the better. I don’t mind legitimate reviews but the fraudulent ones are too time consuming to remove. A competitor left a bad review on Yelp for one of my clients and other review sites copied it. After I removed it from Yelp because its claims were obviously preposterous I then had to remove it from Bing and others which was harder to do than the Yelp.
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