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That's what I thought.  We haven't seen any negative impacts in search volume or rankings from this.  However our client was concerned.

Recently a client of mine noticed an inexplicable jump in crawled pages being reported in Google Search Console.

We researched the following culprits and found nothing:

• Rel=canonicals are put in place
• No SSL/non SSL duplication
• We used a tool to extrapolate search query page data from Google Search Insights; nothing unusual
• No dynamic pages being made on the website
• All necessary landing pages are in the XML sitemap

Could this be a glitch in GSC?  We are wondering what the heck is going on.

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I know this was true a few years ago, however is there still an advantage to having an embedded map vs. a pop up map in 2017?

Thanks Miriam.  I too am doing some research on the correlation.  It seems like common sense but I was something to prove it.  I'll be in touch with my findings.

Thanks!

A client of mine noticed that some of their customers that leave GMB listing reviews have special symbols in their profile avatars (please look at the attachment).   Is this a sign of a influencer?

Has anybody else noticed this?

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Thanks for responding.  Do you know any reason why somebody not see it?

Thanks

A client of mine asked about the new Google Posts feature that can be used via GMB.  The question is can you use Google posts to give updates to visitors about emergency closures?

Hey Miriam

Thanks for your response.  This is for a big brand financial client.   So to answer your question Department A has it's own GMB listing, but the knowledge card is showing hours for Department B/C although we are doing nothing in GMB to manage those department hours.  Google is subjectively displaying those hours.

The question is, can we do anything to control what Google is showing in the knowledge card (besides using schema)?

Recently one our clients noticed that their GMB knowledge card is showing multiple opening hour sets for different departments.

Is there anyway to directly influence these results?   We know schematic markup helps but are there any other options to manage these different department hours?

Thanks

I'm looking for articles/evidence that if you have a high ranking organic listing that it will improve your chances of being in the local pack.  I came across this about a year ago, but I have had trouble finding articles to support this.

Does anybody know of any recent articles and/or studies that show a correlation of high organic listings and local pack visibility?

Thanks!