For anyone who remembers me banging on about that Google bug for the last few years, it looks like it’s finally fixed. Here’s what was happening: my profile social links would always show my Instagram, but never my YouTube channel. Which is… not ideal, because pretty much my entire following is on YouTube, so it was sending people to the wrong place and making everything way more confusing than it needed to be. I’ve been reporting it to Google over and over, and after a ridiculous amount of time, they’ve finally updated it. So if you click my profile now, you should actually see my YouTube link like you were supposed to all along.

Is it normal that recently the rankings of many agencies have changed on Google? Some have moved from 10th to 3rd position in less than three months. I heard that Google made an update. Were you impacted?”

Do you know any good resources to stay up to date with Google’s algorithm changes?

My green circle is staying at 80% even after l have done everything google suggests. It tells me l have nothing else to do. BAFFLED

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