Category: Google Maps

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…

Google announced on Twitter a small feature in the Google Local space that they will soon begin notifying via email when a business responds to a review you left them on Google Maps…

Brad Brewer posted on Twitter a collection of all the Google Maps Highlight Icons he has spotted to date…

Allyson Wright from Google announced in the Google My Business Help forums a small but useful feature for those heavily working in Google My Business. There is a new “clear” button in the attributes section to allow you to more efficiently manage the …

The folks at the Google My Business team announced yesterday new features to the Google My Business API, a new Google My Business agency dashboard…

Sergey Alakov spotted Google adding a new tab to the local panel specifically for Photos. Well, it seems to just be showing on mobile for Android devices, not on iOS devices. If you search on Android, you will get the photos tab, if you search using …