09/08/2026
📉 Local SEO data in 2026 keeps pointing to a new pattern: businesses that go dark for a month or more are seeing real drops in visibility on their Google Business Profile.
While Google itself hasn’t published anything that confirms this, multiple sources have noticed this recent pattern, which means it’s worth paying attention to. 👀
✅ The fix isn’t complicated. It’s consistency. A photo here, a reply there, a quick post once a week. That’s the difference between looking active and looking abandoned.