It took an additional 5 days however now web sites constructed and hosted on Google Enterprise Profiles at the moment are being redirected to the Enterprise Profile itemizing on Google Maps. Google introduced in January that it is going to be shutting down Business Profile websites on March 1, 2024.
Google up to date its help page this morning to say, “As of March 5, 2024, web sites made with Google Enterprise Profiles are now not accessible and clients that go to your web site might be redirected to your Enterprise Profile as a substitute.”
What it seems to be like. I made a GIF of how this seems to be, once you attempt to click on over to a Google Enterprise Profile web site, you’re redirected to a Google Maps itemizing. You’ll be able to see within the GIF under a screenshot of the Enterprise Profile web site. Above that screenshot, I click on on the hyperlink to that Enterprise Profile web site, which then takes me to Google Maps and never that web site.
It’s a 302 redirect, by the way in which.
Redirects will cease working. Google added, “Your clients will solely be redirected to your Enterprise Profile till June 10, 2024. After that, clients will get a “Web page not discovered” error once they attempt to go to your web site.”
So in just a few months, these redirects will cease working as effectively.
Various instruments. Google recommended utilizing one of many following platforms to construct a brand new web site for your enterprise:
- Wix
- Squarespace
- GoDaddy
- Google Websites
- Shopify
- Sturdy
- Weebly
- Strikingly
- WordPress
Why we care. By now, I hope you have been conscious that these Google Enterprise Profiles web sites have been going offline and also you created a brand new web site utilizing a distinct web site builder device. For people who didn’t do that but, possibly it’s best to bounce on that straight away.
Then ensure that so as to add the brand new URL to your Google Enterprise Profile.
In just a few months time, these redirects in your outdated URLs created by Google Enterprise Profiles will cease working fully. It’s a disgrace, we might all want Google would hold the redirects up indefinitely.
