Google introduced it’s shutting down Web sites made with Google Enterprise Profiles. They are going to cease engaged on March 1, 2024 and can solely redirect to your Google Enterprise Profile itemizing till June 10, 2024. After that, anybody who tries to go to that itemizing will get a lifeless web page – a “web page not discovered” error web page.
I imply, should not Google a minimum of allow you to redirect it to your actual web site for a few years? Google has mentioned 3 months is just too brief for redirects to have in place.
Right here is the e-mail Google is sending those that have web sites constructed utilizing the Google Enterprise Profile web site builder:
Google wrote:
Ranging from March 1, 2024, clients shall be redirected to your Enterprise Profiles once they go to these web sites.
Prior to now you’ve got used a Google function to make easy web sites from the knowledge in your Enterprise Profiles.
This function goes away within the coming months and can now not be supported, which means the websites you created with this device shall be eliminated. To assist with the transition, beginning March 1, 2024, clients shall be redirected to your Enterprise Profiles.
In your profiles you’ll be able to showcase related details about what you are promoting, and likewise add social media hyperlinks so clients can be taught extra. Your web sites will redirect clients till June 10, 2024, after which they’ll present as unavailable.
This web site builder function launched in 2017. I’ve screenshots of the way it labored over right here.
“Small companies are an important a part of the net ecosystem, and we’re dedicated to constructing merchandise on a regular basis to assist them develop and thrive,” a Google spokesperson advised us. “As a result of low engagement, we’re winding down web sites made with Enterprise Profiles, which beforehand created primary, templated web sites primarily based on Enterprise Profile data. Small enterprise house owners will proceed to have entry to Enterprise Profiles, in addition to advertisements touchdown pages in the event that they don’t preserve a web site, and different assets to attach with potential clients on-line,” Google added.
Google has this assist doc with some suggestions:
- Domains that finish with enterprise.website and negocio.website shall be faraway from the web site subject in your Enterprise Profile in March. We advocate that you simply replace your Google Enterprise Profile to level to a brand new web site.
- Apart from that, your Enterprise Profile received’t be affected. When clients go to your web site made with Google Enterprise Profile, they’ll be redirected to your Enterprise Profile as a substitute.
- Should you don’t have a web site made with a Google Enterprise Profile, the adjustments mentioned on this article received’t have an effect on you.
Listed here are some reactions to this however a ton of SEOs bought this electronic mail, so I did not embrace all the pieces:
Free Google Profile web sites (enterprise. website) are being deprecated. You have to be receiving emails about which accounts shall be affected. pic.twitter.com/BQ3Mq25qAr
— Yan Gilbert (@YanGilbertSEO) January 8, 2024
It will get rid of quite a lot of spam!!! pic.twitter.com/NZD5zXIEMW
— Shiver Maker Jason Brown 🇺🇦 (@keyserholiday) January 8, 2024
Google annoucnes the tip of GBP web sites. pic.twitter.com/LUV6sl1NS6
— Mike Blumenthal (@mblumenthal) January 8, 2024
On March 1, 2024, Google Enterprise Profile web sites shall be redirected to Enterprise Profile (maps) pages. This redirect shall be in place for simply over three months.
If that is occurring globally, it includes over three million websites.
There shall be a scramble for companies who… pic.twitter.com/9ocSjnXAQi
— Steve Chipman (@SteveChipman) January 8, 2024
Simply as we speak I used to be writing a chunk that features the unhappy forgotten merchandise within the Google graveyard. And right here we’re, adieu Google enterprise profile web sites. You served us nicely 🪦 pic.twitter.com/ePEAvM5ckl
— Claire Carlile 🕊️ 🌊 🥑 🦥 (@clairecarlile) January 8, 2024
One other nice instance of why you need to personal and never lease. The platform you lease from might flip off your website, web page, or profile, at any time when they need. Undecided how a lot this was getting used, however GBP websites are being turned off quickly. https://t.co/fDazfr0mKQ
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) January 8, 2024
Once more, I’ve a difficulty with the redirect being so brief and also you not with the ability to inform Google to redirect this to your individual area identify.
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