Are you trying to remove duplicate or unverified listing from your Google My Business Listing? You are the rightful owner of the business listings but still unable to delete it because it is throwing an error message
“Couldn’t remove location. Check your permissions, or try removing locations individually.”
Followed all the tutorial step by step on official google my business page but still no luck? Don’t worry! We got your back. In this GMB course, I’ll show you
Navigate to Manage Locations option from the left menu selected, you will see all the listed verified/unverified/duplicate and closed business listing under your account.
STEP-3
Choose the business listing you want to remove and head over to action scroll button located under top right area as shown in the image below:
Step-4
Scroll to last option item and click REMOVE Location
You will be prompted with a warning message read it carefully before making the last move and proceed (refer image below)
Click on remove and wait for few seconds, it may take some time to delete all the listed data.
STEP 5.
After successfully removing your unwanted business listing you will be redirected to your to Google My Business Page and you will notice that duplicate/unverified/unwanted listing has been successfully removed and disappeared from your GMB account.
Follow the video tutorial shared above If you stuck at any step by if you still face any difficulty in deleting or removing GMB business listing. Feel free to ask me by using the comment section below 🙂
Google’s Panda Update is basically works as a search filter to prevent sites with poor or low-quality content from ranking into SERPs(Search Engine Result Pages) over sites with High-Quality & Unique Contents. It has given privilege near the top of the search results to numerous high-quality websites and became the worst nightmare for many website publishers with low quality spammy content.
As I mentioned earlier most of the Algorithm updates are unannounced and unconfirmed, unlike Panda, On 24, February Google released a blog post about this Major Algorithm update publically on their official Blog and announced that they have
“ launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking—a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries.”
This update was developed to impact the rankings for poor low-quality websites—sites which provide very less, low or absolutely no value add to its users, copied content from other sources that are just not very useful.
Danny Sullivan who was the retired Co-founder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land called this update as the Farmer Update
Later Google named it as “Panda” on the name of the Google Engineer from Odisha, India. Navneet Panda. who introduced this algorithm in its early days that helped Google to create and Implement it for Better Search result.
The picture below is an actual image of one of our client whom we helped in recovering this Google manual spam action from their site 🙂
If you are also a victim of Panda Hit, Don’t Panic. Recovering from Panda penalty is not a piece of cake. It may sound good on the surface that tells you to improve quality of content but at ground reality, it is really a very complex task to achieve the desired result, but this is also true what exactly is needed to recover from manual spam action penalty.
Google Fellow Amit Singhal has posted a list of 23 bullet points on Google’s official webmaster blog explaining “guidance on building high-quality sites” Take a deep analysis of your site look up for thin content, duplicate content, low-quality content, High ad ratio with the content, low-quality user-generated content like blog commenting, guest blog posts that are short filled with grammar or spelling mistakes, irrelevant content mismatch with search queries, etc are a few important factors you should take care of while dealing with post Panda effects.
it is NOT actually penalty if Google spots your content is not unique and doesn’t rank your page above a competitor’s page.
Moreover, you can Hire an SEO expert who can help you to deal with these problems.
The Table below contains the list of all the Panda updates that have been confirmed by Google Officially. We did not see any confirmed panda updates since long but it is obvious, there could have been unannounced releases of Panda that Google did make public.
Initial Release Date: 23, February 2011 Google’s Panda rolled out several updates since the original release date but the effect went global in April 2011.
Google Panda Update Timeline
Panda Updates
Release Date
Panda 1.0
Update 1
24-02-2011
Panda 2.0
Update 2
11-04-2011
Update 3
10-05-2011
Update 4
16-06-2011
Update 5
23-07-2011
Update 6
12-08-2011
Update 7
28-09-2011
Panda 3.0
Update 8
19-10-2011
Update 9
18-11-2011
Update 10
18-01-2012
Update 11
27-02-2012
Update 12
23-03-2012
Update 13
19-04-2012
Update 14
27-4-2012
Update 15
09-06-2012
Update 16
25-06-2012
Update 17
24-07-2012
Update 18
20-08-2012
Update 19
18-09-2012
Update 20
27-09-2012
Update 21
05-11-2012
Update 22
21-11-2012
Update 23
21-12-2013
Update 24
22-01-2013
Update 25
15-03-2013
Update 26
18-06-2013
Panda 4.0
Update 27
20-05-2014
Panda 4.1
Update 28
25-09-2014
(Google Panda Algorithm Historical Updates represented in a table)
P.S: As soon as if Google releases and confirm and any new panda update. I will update the list.
Whether you are a working & experienced professional, SEO expert or just started your carrier in Digital Marketing world as a fresher/newbie and recently started exploring this field you must have heard, read or familiar with the term Google Algorithms Updates. In this post I am going to discuss The Top 10 Major Google’s Algorithm updates you should be aware of :
Panda
Penguin
Pirate
Pigeon
Possum
Mobile Friendly Update (Mobilegedon update)
RankBrain
Hummingbird
Google EMD (Exact Match Domain) Update
Google Florida
According to John Muller who is a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google says “We Make Changes Almost Every Day”.
So almost every single day, throughout the year Google introduces releases updates to its search ranking Algorithm. As per my research, It could be several thousand times a year including all the major and minor updates, out of which some changes are minor and unnoticeable but Google Occasionally rolls out some major algorithm updates which seriously revamp the Search Engine Results.
Google is constantly evolving its ranking algorithm, resulting thousands of websites move up, and down in the rankings every single time Google updates their algorithm.
Google wants to provide only the best relevant & quality search results to its user by doing this would increase chances to lift their market share and profit.
Google provides little, less and sometimes absolutely no information about Algorithm Updates. Most of them are unannounced and unconfirmed. Although the search engine giant Google does not announce the exact algorithm publically, if you want to track Algorithm updates or changes, you can either track it via graphical presentation through Algoroo or you can also stay updated with the latest trend, news, and history of all the Algorithm updates using RankRanger. and Cognitiveseo
Now let’s have a quick sneak peek at Top 10 Major Google’s Algorithm updates below:
1. Google Panda Update
Release date: 24, February 2011
Rollouts: ~Recorded Monthly throughout the year.
Target: Spammy Poor low value and copied content: plagiarized or thin content sites.
Goal: Build a healthy web ecosystem.
Misconception: Panda is a Penalty
Impact: Heavy
2. Google Penguin Update
Release date: 24 April 2012
Rollouts: Total 5 update since release date, unlike Panda, it works in real time now.
Target:
1. Spamdexing or irrelevant backlinks.
2. Backlinks generated with over-optimized anchor text.
3. Especially those sites who purchase backlinks from third-party sites.
Goal: Penalize and prevent link spamming
Misconception: Remove backlinks using google disavow tool
Impact: Heavy
3. Google Pirate Update
Release date: July 24, 2014
Rollouts: October 2012
Target: sites with pirated content that were violating copyright laws. (particularly torrent sites)
Goal: Affect rankings of sites received a high volume of copyrights complaints filed under Google’s DMCA.
Impact: Moderate
4. Google Pigeon Update
Release date: 20 August 2013
Rollouts: October 2012
Target: Poor On-Page/Off-Page SEO
Goal: Improve ranking parameters based on distance and location.
Impact: Moderate
5. Google Possum Update
Release date: September 1, 2016
Rollouts: Unconfirmed
Target: Local businesses with multiple google my business listing (Fake listing) and having same NAP listing.
Goal: Diversification of local results depending on the searcher’s location.
Impact: Moderate
6. Mobile Friendly Update (Mobilegeddon)
Release date: April 21, 2015
Rollouts: Unconfirmed
Target: De-rank pages that aren’t mobile friendly or in simple words not optimized for mobile
Goal: Give mobile-friendly pages a ranking boost in mobile SERPs.
Impact: Heavy
7. Rank Brain
Release date:26 October 2015
Rollouts: April 2015
Target: Lack of search query specific relevancy with the page/post
Google’s own processes and search Algorithms
Goal: Rankbrain is a part of Google’s Hummingbird algorithm.It was Introduced as artificial intelligence (AI) program to refine queries (understand the meaning behind queries) that Google processes to enhance the efficacy of their search results
Impact: Moderate
8. Google Hummingbird
Release date:26 September 2013
Rollouts: August 22, 2013 (about a month prior than official announcement)
Target: Keyword stuffing
Goal: Better focus on the meaning behind the search query rather than finding matches for words and provide precise and fast search results using LSI.
Impact: High
9. EMD – Exact Match Domain
Release date: September 2012
Rollouts: Unconfirmed
Target: Spammy website stuffed with precisely matching keywords in their domain name.
Goal: De-value low-quality websites trying to trick Google’s SERPs just because such websites have the relevant keywords search term in their domain names.
Impact: Heavy
10. Google Florida Update
Release date:16 November 2003
Rollouts: Unconfirmed
Impact Level: Very High
Target: keyword stuffing, the use of multiple sites under the same brand, invisible text, and hidden links.
Goal: Battle against search engine optimizers, who are trying to influence Google’s rankings for profit.
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