Google is testing replacing the “call” button in the Google Ads, including Local Service Ads, with a “get phone number” button. This is a much longer phrase to use, but it is much more descriptive of what the button actually does; it gives you the phone number to call on your own. We see Google … Read more
Google has removed the phone number for the hotel panel and hotel panels in the search results. To be clear, the normal local listings, like pizza shops and so forth, do have the phone numbers but not the hotel listings for some reason. This seems to have started yesterday, Tuesday, March 19th. Lluc B. Penycate … Read more
For years now, Google has shown phone numbers on some search result snippets when Google thinks you want to call that store. We have screen captures of this from 2016 and 2014. But now Google is testing a new button that is more button-like. Khushal Bherwani posted a screenshot on X: This is the style … Read more
Google has added a new way to retrieve leads from Google Local Service Ads – text message. Google use to send these “message leads” to your email account. Now Google is offering a way to text those leads to your device. This was spotted by Anthony Higman who posted on X that this “solves a … Read more
April 10, 2014 | Posted by Rank Ranger Every customer wants to speak to someone directly when they are having issues and it’s up to the company to make that as easy as possible. That’s why Google wants to help you out with this by including your phone number in your knowledge graph … Read more
Remember those old Nokia mobile phones? Do you remember Google web search being tested on those devices? Jon Erlichman from Bloomberg shared an old video of this in action on Twitter the other day. Here it is: Early days of web search on a phone: pic.twitter.com/Ndkx2JvfU0 — Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) April 21, 2023 This post … Read more
Did you know Google can now detect if scammers are overlaying fake phone numbers in user-contributed photos within Google Maps and automatically detect and block those photos from displaying on business listings within the local search results? Google has released some information on its efforts to combat fake content and reviews in Google Maps and … Read more
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