Category: Google Maps

A couple weeks ago, I received a package in the mail from Project Beacon with the Google’s Mountain View, California address on it. When I opened it up, I found a beacon and some instructions on how to set it up. I did not yet set it up…

Last week, I received a massive envelope from Google with a bunch of posters and signs for my business. I got them for free by filling out the smallthanks.withgoogle.com web site…

You may now see in the Google local panels a store’s return policy. You can likely trigger them for large stores like Walmart or others. Sergey Alakov first spotted it and posted it on Twitter…

Google is now dynamically changing the service or business category they show in the local pack next to a business based on the user entered query in the search box…

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Google announced yesterday both on Twitter and Google My Business Help forums that a new attribute is available in Google My Business…

Last week, Google launched the new Google My Business Agency Dashboard which promised to offer local SEO agencies a way to “manage multiple listings faster, simpler and more intuitively.” But no, from what I hear, it is super buggy and not ready for p…

Brad Brewer who follows Google’s hotel search results really closely spotted Google now showing a “similar hotels” carousel in the local knowledge panel of a hotel result in Google Maps…

Google is showing in store savings and see what’s in this store in the mobile version of the local knowledge panel…

Yesterday we covered how Google Posts now supports products and offers, a way to highlight more items when people search for your company on Google. Well, if you post a product Google Post…

There is this feature in Google Maps called Google Maps Timeline, which we covered before here, that lets you keep track of where you’ve been…

As I reported at Search Engine Land, the expected new Google My Business Agency Dashboard is now live for those marketing agencies that need to manage their client’s local listings. No longer are you limited to a 100 listings to manage…

Sergey Alakov spotted something, I honestly thought I’ve seen before but I can’t find that I covered it, that when you make an edit as a normal user to a local panel on Google, Google is asking if you are a customer or employee of that business that y…

Google seems to be testing multiple variations of how Google Posts show up in the Google search results recently. In the past week or so…

Ben Fisher noticed and posted on Twitter that if you try to edit a business’s hours in Google search under the local knowledge panel…

Google Maps and Local might be removing anonymous reviews, sometimes shown as reviews by a Googler Users…

In early April we reported some folks seeing yellow map pins in the Google search results snippets. Now, many more are seeing it…

Sergey Alakov spotted another Google local feature that might be undergoing testing now, he posted it on Twitter. It is similar to the local hotel refinements carousel we covered the other day…

I am not 100% sure if this is new, it looks super familiar but I don’t think I’ve covered this where Google is showing in their local pack for hotel results refinement boxes at the top. These refinements aim at letting the searcher get better informat…

Last week we reported how Google said you can now upload videos to your Google Posts so they show up in your local panel. I, along with many local SEOs, have been trying this feature daily and has been sporadicly working on and off…