Category: Google Maps

The folks over at RankRanger published data around a local pack study that they are calling the 2:1 pattern…

If you login to your Google My Business account, click on one of your business listings and then go to the insights section…

A month ago, Google began allowing businesses to once again edit their business description. Now, people are noticing the box that shows this business description…

Last November, Google started showing live wait times at some venues and locations. But that may have slowly gone away. Nicholas McDonough posted

Last August, Google began displaying a save button on local panels on mobile search results. Now, some are seeing the save button on the desktop version of the local panels as well. Personally…

You no longer need to sell food to get menus on your Google Maps or Google Local panel, now you just need to add your menu of services to your Google My Business “info” section and presto…

Andrew Hagemann posted a screen shot on Twitter of Google showing a miniature or minimized version of a local pack. So instead of showing three local results, it shows a box that says you can click here to see three local results…

If you look at any Google local result, the local knowledge panel section, and look at the images section…

About a year ago, Mike Blumenthal covered how Google added a product and services link to edit what people see in your local knowledge panel around the products and services you sell. Most people did not see it but it seems to be rolling out to more bu…

Aaron Dicks posted a screen shot on Twitter of a weird Google search result snippet, it shows a yellow map icon/pin in the mobile search results snippets. The query and testing done to spot this was also weird, and I cannot replicate it…

Colan Nieslen posted on Twitter something that most people in the local space wouldn’t even notice, a redesign to the Google Posts creation tool within Google My Business…

Allyson Wright, Community Manager, Google My Business, wrote in the Google My Business Help forums that in order to send less notifications to business owners and Google My Business profile changes…

Last week, we saw that some businesses can now edit their business descriptions in Google My Business. Now Sergey Alakov spotted that sometimes Google is showing…

Brodie Clark posted on Twitter that he received an email from Google that one or some of his Google+ pages for a business is being shut down within 30 days. Of course, this should come as no surprise to anyone…

Google My Business has updated the directions heatmaps, which they originally launched in 2014 to make them more useful…

Google is bringing back the feature to edit your business description for your local listings. Back in 2016, Google removed the feature but now people are seeing it coming back into Google My Business and in the local panel…

As I reported at Search Engine Land, Google has added a new women-led attribute icon to the local panel result in the mobile search results for those businesses owned by women…

Google posted on Twitter the other day that they have updated the help document for the Google My Business photos page. The content did change and I have a before and after for you below…

You probably have all noticed that I have not been mentioning the name Gary Illyes from Google as often as I use to. That is because he is way less active on Twitter these days. He actually said it himself on Twitter…

Google has added mall directories information to the local panel in the search results. If you search for a local mall in your area, you may see a tab for “Directory” which will show you the stores located in that mall…