Consumer feedback is an essential gift to local businesses, helping them continuously improve customer satisfaction, but it can be both effectively given and gratefully received with a little extra care for civility on both sides.

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Data reveals Google AI overviews are disrupting ecommerce visibility, pulling product data from non-ranking sources.

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Google rolls out a new type of social profile that makes users’ written reviews in Search publicly accessible.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google has updated its help documentation page on AI Overviews to tell searchers how to show only web results in its search results (not show AI Overviews, videos, image, etc), plus how to give feedback on the AI Overviews Google provides.

Google’s John Mueller once again blasted the “concept of toxic links,” he wrote on Reddit, “The concept of toxic links is made up by SEO tools so that you pay them regularly.” As you know, John is not a fan of link selling, buying and removal services – including tools that tell you what to remove.

I am hearing numerous reports from SEOs that the link report within Google Search Console is showing drastically fewer links than it did a month prior. I am not sure if this is impacting all SEO, but there are a number of SEOs complaining about this.

Google Images lets you upload an image, and then it may show you an option to “see exact matches.” This essentially will show you all the locations where the image is found by Google across the web. Obviously, this can help you find out who stole your image, and then you can have fun trying to get them to take it down.