Category: Google Maps

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 …

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…