{"id":18093,"date":"2015-05-19T12:59:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=18093"},"modified":"2015-05-19T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:01:12","slug":"google-knowledge-panel-messaging-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/19\/google-knowledge-panel-messaging-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ Knowledge Panel Messaging Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-18095\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-19-at-1.11.37-PM-256x200.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-19 at 1.11.37 PM\" width=\"256\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-19-at-1.11.37-PM-256x200.png 256w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-19-at-1.11.37-PM.png 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/>One compelling reason for an SMB to use Google Plus was the fact that their most recent G+ posts and photo would appear on the Knowledge Panel for branded search results. First noticed disappearing by Mary Bowling about a month ago, it is now gone for good.<\/p>\n<p>Google confirmed its passage by saying:\u00a0<em>&#8220;We&#8217;re always mixing things up on Search, and this change is no different. We&#8217;ve found that most people care about seeing hours of operation, directions, and photos when they search for businesses, so we&#8217;re making that information the most visible. You can still find all this info in Google+ of course.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is a previous\u00a0knowledge panel showing a G+ post and image and\u00a0a current view showing its absence:<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 481px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/localu.org\/blog\/8-tips-optimize-local-knowledge-panel-google-search\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/localu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/KP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Previous Knowledge Panel showing G+ Post &amp; Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18094\" style=\"width: 492px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-19-at-1.09.56-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18094 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-19-at-1.09.56-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-19 at 1.09.56 PM\" width=\"492\" height=\"822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-19-at-1.09.56-PM.png 492w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-19-at-1.09.56-PM-120x200.png 120w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-19-at-1.09.56-PM-359x600.png 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Current Knowledge Panel without G+ Post &amp; Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One compelling reason for an SMB to use Google Plus was the fact that their most recent G+ posts and photo would appear on the Knowledge Panel for branded search results. First noticed disappearing by Mary Bowling about a month ago, it is now gone for good. Google confirmed its passage by saying:\u00a0&#8220;We&#8217;re always mixing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18097,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093\/revisions\/18097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}