{"id":6733,"date":"2025-11-03T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/?p=6733"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:17:35","slug":"google-seo-search-errors-established-brands-paperstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/google-seo-search-errors-established-brands-paperstone","title":{"rendered":"Update \u2013 Google has now resolved the issue affecting branded searches\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Updated on 5th January 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re pleased to share that Google has resolved the search issue affecting established brand names, and Paperstone is once again ranking correctly for its own brand searches.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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As we outlined in our original post, Google Search was temporarily misinterpreting some branded queries, causing users searching specifically for Paperstone to be shown results for unrelated brands instead. This behaviour was not the result of a penalty, a loss of trust, or any action taken on our website – but rather a short-term glitch within Google\u2019s search systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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We’ve monitored branded search results closely and can confirm that Paperstone now appears as expected at the top of Google search results for our brand name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What caused the issue?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There was a glitch with Google briefly which affected how certain brand queries were interpreted, particularly where brand names were similar to other, more globally recognised terms. In our case, searches for \u201cPaperstone\u201d were occasionally treated as a spelling correction rather than a deliberate branded query.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This resulted in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n