Category: Google Maps

There is this new tool at stopcraponthemap.com that looks for suspicious and fake reviews on Google Maps and tells you which one they think they are. “This tool looks for unnatural review patterns from Google users…

Google quietly said on Twitter that they launched “subjective attributes to provide more information in your insights tab.” Subjective attributes (e.g. whether your business is popular with locals) rely on the opinions of Google users whoâve visited your business…

Google has added a new local pack maps filter in the search results to let you filter based on the last time you visited that location. You can filter based on haven’t visited or visited or both using this filter…

Google is showing dynamic filters for some queries in the local pack. So if you search for something very specific, and Google can filter based on the query parameters, Google might show that filter in the local pack filters…

If you login to your Google My Business account, you will see in your dashboard a performance card…

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…