Todays rather lovely surprise, getting tagged by in the Google Search Central news for my BrightonSEO talk on Lessons Learnt From Crawling 1000's of websites

This doesn't surprise me at all.

We sent AIO for local results where Google maps clearly has the place closed

Very much fills like the AIO systems are not referencing the other Google systems

Using Enhanced Measurement in GA4 to track calls on phone numbers and email addresses. Google quietly removed that functionality in November

You still can and should be creating custom events for things like this

Hat tip to Steen Rasmussen for flagging this

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Anyone else seeing these "new" Product Site carousels in the Google SERPs

This was Nike Water bottles and seems to be dominated by the PriceSpy

www.google.co.uk/search?q=nik...

To check how many searches Google Search Console is not showing to you, take the figure you're first shown and then apply this filter

Divide the second figure by the first to find out what % of queries are anonymised

If only all CAPTCHAs were this easy

Excellent example from Conversion Hotel 24

From Andras Kobza

#wingshot on the way to Conversion Hotel

This big bundle of joy does exactly the same

Amazon internal search is pretty good apart from when it comes to looking up orders

It can't seem to cope with the actual order number which isn't much good when you're trying to reconcile a credit card number

Inspired by @markwilliamscook.com looking up on Google Trends americans searching for "what are tariffs", here is the latest Google Trends data for two of Trumps more controversial picks