Daily Search Forum Recap: April 8, 2022

Google’s new editing experience for Business Profiles has rolled out. While the initial sentiment isn’t positive, everyone can agree that it’s an experience.  So, what has changed? The Google Business Profile Manager is still here, but the ability to edit a listing in the interface is gone.  Users no longer have access to their old dashboards and are now forcefully entered into the NMX, or New Merchant Experience, where GBP edits are made directly within the SERPs.  This is a massive change that business owners and […]

The Spam Clock in 2011, startup search engine Blekko launched a spam clock that estimated 155 million spam pages had been created since Jan. 1 of that year. Blekko said 1 million spam pages were being created every hour. How bad was Google’s spam problem then? Big. But as Danny Sullivan pointed out at the time, it was hard to judge whether Google’s relevancy had actually decreased, because: We expect more from Google than we do in the past, searching for things we might not have […]

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…