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Tim Capper retweeted
Many Google Business Profiles business's messaging numbers are being automatically updatedwith a Meta Facebook Messenger or WhatApp number.
What do you think is going on?
It appears to me that Meta is providing a feed to Google that is automatically posted to your business profile. Businesses might not notice until its too late and you have lost a customer or three.
Tim Capper retweeted
The hidden tax measure in the Budget is huge for people paying tax under self-assessment - sole traders, partners, landlords, retired investors.
For 6th April 2028-29, you currently pay 50% of your income tax late in the tax year in question (in January 2029), 50% just after the year end (in July 2029) with any make-up payment in January 2030.
Under the new proposals you will pay your tax perhaps monthly or quarterly (TBC) from April 2029 onwards. A rough analysis suggests the impact is to draw about 50% of your tax bill forward, a huge cashflow boost to HMRC and a significant funding issue for the self-employed.
The Treasury recognises this, and expects to raise £1.3bn of additional tax in 29/30 as a result of this change.
The cashflow impact of the accelerated charge will send some businesses to the wall.
Tim Capper retweeted
Google Business Profiles now allows you to control third-party ordering features - finally!
seroundtable.com/google-busi…
Some interesting research here on reviews.
reviewflowz.com/research/dis…
Tim Capper retweeted
I don’t want to post the video. You’ve all seen it. But I do want to write a love letter…
Dear everyone in Britain, ( even you illegals)
Just so you understand. The poppy is for the boys who never got to grow old. For the boys who were still somebody’s baby, brother, uncle or father. More than 600,000 of them.
It doesn’t matter if you support war, hate your country, think you are a woman (even though you are a man). It doesn’t matter which God you pray to, or if you pray to none at all.
It doesn’t matter who you vote for, what climate narrative you believe, or whether you believe Israel should exist or not!
The poppy isn’t for you!
It’s for those who came before. Those who fought for your right to be weird, annoying or even foreign.
The poppy is how we say thank you. Thank you for giving us time, peace and choice.
And attempting to ban our poppy by declaring it politically divisive isn’t a move towards freedom. It is an act of suppression. Understand that.
The poppy is about love and loss. For you!
So stick your rainbow flags and every other flag where the sun doesn’t shine and just wear your poppy. Those boys did not die as symbols. They died for you!
Did you know that poppies grew across the battlefields where so many fell? As though even the land refused to forget the blood once given to defend it.
So the poppy is for them. For those who came before us and paid in youth, in hope, in breath, in blood, so that we might have the freedom to be arseholes.
So that we might even have the freedom to fight over the ridiculous, the inconsequential and the insane.
Revere it, celebrate it and wear it. The very least you can do is that.
Best
The ordinary people.
Tim Capper retweeted
New Google Business Profiles performance reports are rolling out to some and it looks cool - via @SyedMAmirHassa1 and others
seroundtable.com/google-busi…
Tim Capper retweeted
Google testing swapping the business name, ratings and description with the business photos in the desktop local knowledge panel design - via @TheSocialDude
seroundtable.com/google-loca…
Tim Capper retweeted
Focus on Local? Huge heads-up.
"This beta experience brings together your Business Profile, Merchant Center, YouTube, and Ads accounts all in one place. With Business Home you can turn insights about your business and customers into quick, actionable steps to help you grow."
New Beta Google Business Home for Google Business Profiles
seroundtable.com/google-busi…
Tim Capper retweeted
New Beta Google Business Home for Google Business Profiles
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Tim Capper retweeted
On-brand visuals, real-time financial insights, and more -> New Gemini tools for small business owners
"We’re introducing a new business landing page designed to help small business owners streamline their daily tasks. From this central hub, they can build their brand, analyze finances, understand customer insights, and more."
blog.google/innovation-and-a…
Tim Capper retweeted
Google Business Profiles verification through government ID upload
seroundtable.com/google-busi…
Tim Capper retweeted
If companies start messing with agents like Google is messing with scrapers now, then the entire agent market could get hammered. Imagine your agent ends up returning bad data, the wrong products, wrong pricing, or worse? -> Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
"In recent weeks, users of services like Meta’s Muse, xAI’s Grok, OpenAI’s Dots, and Instinct have reported blocks preventing their AI agents from performing tasks across top websites. Yelp told TechCrunch that it only allows AI agents that pay for its data licensing program, while Delta Air Lines is preventing them from booking tickets on behalf of users. JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab have also confirmed that they’re blocking AI agents from accessing accounts due to security concerns. Some users say sites that previously worked with their AI agent are no longer accessible, including Cars .com and Amtrak, suggesting other companies could be quietly blocking them."
"The Verge reached out to OpenAI and Google with requests for comments on the roadblocks their AI agents are facing but didn’t immediately hear back. Instinct declined to comment."
theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…
Tim Capper retweeted
I'm now seeing some very serious fuckery by Google on SERP Page 2 served to trackers. For commercial queries:
- Page 1 includes things like alternative locations to the users.
- Page 2 sometimes replaces the main entity altogether.
The giveaway is in PAA, Maps, AIOs etc.
Tim Capper retweeted
Google updated my favourite document - their guidance on creating helpful content.
They added more to help us understand and improve the "main content" of our pages.
Here is a blog post and video with my thoughts.
mariehaynes.com/main-content…
Tim Capper retweeted
Focus on Local? Important to know:
*If a suggested edit requires your review, you may receive an email or an in-product notification. Once notified, you have 4 days to accept or reject the suggestion.
*If you don’t respond within 4 days, Google may automatically publish the update if it is supported by other publicly available information, such as your business website.
Google Business Profiles gives you only four days to reject a user suggested edit before using it on your local listing
seroundtable.com/google-busi…
Google Business Profiles' content moderation systems are next-level stupid.
National gas safety awareness .... Google says No!
#GoogleBusinessProfile
Tim Capper retweeted
You Know How I Know That Google Is Not Doing So Great? They Are Running Gun Ads Now BWHAHAHAHA Jesus.
#PPCchat
Tim Capper retweeted
Oh it's so much worse than that!
1. To win in AI you have to win in search.
2. To win in search you have to blend in.
Conform to the template.
Just make sure you fit.
Avoid being unique.
Be average.
🤮
This is doing real harm to the web ecosystem and Google is to blame.
Tim Capper retweeted
Mad Ed’s Net Zero energy policy has made us so secure that we spent £84 BILLION on buying oil, gas and electricity from abroad last year and killed off jobs and revenue from our own North Sea fields!
“buy a torch and have 3 days worth of food” … everything is fine 🤡
Tim Capper retweeted
Wow, rivals will receive some 'user interaction signal' data like clicks, returns to the results page, hovering, scrolling, swiping and viewing duration -> Google’s European licensing program will give eligible search engines access to clicks, rankings and user-behavior signals that website owners do not receive through Search Console
"Google will begin providing licensing agreements on September 17, with data samples available from November 16. The data goes further than the information Google gives publishers through Search Console."
"Under the European Commission’s binding measures, competitors can receive the URLs shown in search results, their positions and details about how users interacted with them. That includes clicks, returns to the results page, hovering, scrolling, swiping and viewing duration."
searchenginewatch.com/google…
