Aug 18, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
In this episode, Darren Shaw and Claire Carlile share the most exciting local SEO news and insights from the past two weeks: 📝…
Claire CarlileHost
The first thing that I am going to share is something that was spotted by the eagle-eyed Hava who works at Whitespark.
So if you use a Google business profile, you've got products which are populated via product editor.
You might have noticed that the links have fallen off or fell off a little while ago.
So that's a bit sad, especially if you are UTM tagging those links and you see it might not be a massive amount of traffic coming through to your website, but it's some traffic.
So I was in touch with Google Business Profile Support and was told that the fact that the links had fallen off was working as intended, which normally means...
We can, you know, we'll still use the opportunity to give Google information about our business.
So anyway, it's mildly interesting if you've taken the time to actually populate your Google business profile products.
I think they're one of those things that people are like, these are going to go soon.
And like everything, just use it as a chance to give Google information about your business.
Yeah, there was lots of threats that they were going to retire the product section around when they were really emphasizing Merchant Center.
and i i agree with that obviously if you if you are a big if you know you have you sell uh online you've got products with barcodes of course take advantage of having um a product feed but if you're not that type of product and you are the type of business that they say one thing to remember is that your products uh It's funny when you skip between platforms.
The first thing that I am going to share is something that was spotted by the eagle-eyed Hava who works at Whitespark.
So if you use a Google business profile, you've got products which are populated via product editor.
You might have noticed that the links have fallen off or fell off a little while ago.
So that's a bit sad, especially if you are UTM tagging those links and you see it might not be a massive amount of traffic coming through to your website, but it's some traffic.
So I was in touch with Google Business Profile Support and was told that the fact that the links had fallen off was working as intended, which normally means...
We can, you know, we'll still use the opportunity to give Google information about our business.
So anyway, it's mildly interesting if you've taken the time to actually populate your Google business profile products.
I think they're one of those things that people are like, these are going to go soon.
And like everything, just use it as a chance to give Google information about your business.
Yeah, there was lots of threats that they were going to retire the product section around when they were really emphasizing Merchant Center.
and i i agree with that obviously if you if you are a big if you know you have you sell uh online you've got products with barcodes of course take advantage of having um a product feed but if you're not that type of product and you are the type of business that they say one thing to remember is that your products uh It's funny when you skip between platforms.
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