There are some reviews that in some industries, just like the auto dealership business, there’s a bug with Google Enterprise Profile insights reporting. There exhibits a big and unaccounted-for spike in site visitors from Google Native and Google Maps for a few of these companies in these Google reviews.
There are two threads about this within the Native Search Boards – I noticed this by way of @keyserholiday. One native web optimization named George Nenni wrote, “We monitor GBP searches, views and actions for round 200 new automotive retailers, via 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 identical knowledge we’re seeing immediately within the GBP dashboard (hooked up). We monitor separate profiles for gross sales, service, components and physique store departments for every seller. The problem is simply taking place with the nested division listings.”
He shared this chart from the Insights report in Google Enterprise Profiles:
One other native web optimization, Annika Neudecker wrote, “We monitor our GBP insights for our areas each month to observe progress and developments over time. I pulled my September knowledge 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 almost precisely the identical quantity. This makes me surprise if Google has switched up the way it counts Direct and Discovery searches for GBP listings. We’ve not made any adjustments to our listings which might immediate a giant change in how they’re being discovered.”
Jason Brown thinks it is likely to be a bug or perhaps each. He stated, “Bots or bug? Automobile dealerships noticed big spikes in views, however no clicks.”
I’m guessing bots?
Discussion board dialogue at Native Search Boards.
