There are some experiences that in some industries, just like the auto dealership trade, there’s a bug with Google Enterprise Profile insights reporting. There reveals a big and unaccounted-for spike in visitors from Google Native and Google Maps for a few of these companies in these Google experiences.
There are two threads about this within the Native Search Boards – I noticed this by way of @keyserholiday. One native website positioning named George Nenni wrote, “We monitor GBP searches, views and actions for round 200 new automotive retailers, by means of a Jepto API into Information Studio. We’re noticing greater than half of those profiles acquired unusual spikes in searches and views, however not actions. It’s the similar information we’re seeing instantly within the GBP dashboard (connected). We monitor separate profiles for gross sales, service, components and physique store departments for every seller. The problem is just occurring with the nested division listings.”
He shared this chart from the Insights report in Google Enterprise Profiles:
One other native website positioning, Annika Neudecker wrote, “We monitor our GBP insights for our areas each month to look at development and traits over time. I pulled my September information this morning and located a really curious change within the reported searches. It seems that the reported Direct searches elevated considerably (about +1 mil) whereas Discovery searches fell by practically precisely the identical quantity. This makes me marvel if Google has switched up the way it counts Direct and Discovery searches for GBP listings. We’ve not made any modifications to our listings which might immediate a giant change in how they’re being discovered.”
Jason Brown thinks it is perhaps a bug or possibly each. He mentioned, “Bots or bug? Automobile dealerships noticed big spikes in views, however no clicks.”
I’m guessing bots?
Discussion board dialogue at Native Search Boards.
