Yesterday we reported that despite Google saying they would shutdown and redirect the Google Business Profile websites on March 1st – they were still working. Well, as of this morning, March 5, 2024, these websites no longer work.
Instead, as Google promised, they are redirecting to the Google Business Profile on Google Maps.
This is what happens when I click on a Google Business Profile website URL, specifically the URL of Will Scott’s Business Profile website at https://business.google.com/website/search-influence:
Here is the redirect path, using 302 redirects:
As a reminder, this redirect will stop working in the next couple of months and then people who go to those old Google Business Profile URLs, will end up no where.
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