Category: Google Maps

Google Posts went live a couple weeks ago, which lets businesses with Google My Business listings post content directly into their local box in the search results…

Last week, Google launched Google Posts to all Google My Business customers worldwide. The issue is, it isn’t available for all business categories, including hotel categories…

Sergey Alakov spotted and posted on Twitter yet another local hotel test, where Google is testing showing large swipeable images for the hotel results…

Last night, as I covered at SEL, Google Posts went live to all businesses verified within Google My Business. Google Posts are an instant way to post a message to your customers and prospects…

So after some time testing both hotel pricing labels and local panel highlights, Google seems to have rolled out both features to searchers. Our man Sergey Alakov reported on both going live this week…

Earlier this year, Google was beta testing a website builder for Google My Business customers. Well…

Google doesn’t stop doing these local, espesially hotel specific tests. This one shows the price slide filter but with a graph overlay of the prices of the hotels on the graph…

Just a couple days ago, Google rolled out the two tab local panel interface where you would be able to toggle between the business’s overview and reviews right in the search results.

Now… Google is testing showing three tabs for hotel listings…
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Google is now showing the number of hotel listings available in the local pack for your searches at the bottom, where it use to say “more hotels…

Sergey Alakov spotted yet another hotel search results test in Google and posted it on Twitter. This test includes the price labels in maps and adds (a) a price slider filter and (b) price labels in the carousel listings…

Last month we reported that Google was testing a tab user interface to toggle between a local panel’s overview and reviews. Well, it seems like this new user interface is rolling out. Google has not confirmed it yet…

Did you ever see Google show in their local pack the same listing, for the same company for a single query…

Google is now testing displaying hotel price labels directly in the map view for your local searches on mobile. This was first spotted by our man Sergey Alakov who shared it on Twitter.

Normally, the map just shows icons and pins of where the hotels …

Marissa Nordahl, the Community & Social Media Manager at Google My Business announced in the Google My Business Help forums that Google is adding new notifications for Google My Business listings…

Sergey Alakov spotted yet another Google Local test, this one in the local knowledge panel for a business listing. The business panel shows…

Google hotel listing results typically show you the price of the stay based on when you are going to be staying. But it seems Google is testing removing the pricing on their hotel listings.

Sergey Alakov spotted this and posted about it on Twitter……

It is one thing to partake in the Google webmaster hangout office hours events over YouTube Live hangouts but it is another thing to do it sitting inches away from Google’s John Mueller…

Joy Hawkins, one of the niche local SEOs in our field, posted on Twitter that she saw on Google Maps that Google automatically popped up an ad on the map for a local result…

This may be one of the largest Google local reviews tests I’ve seen from Google in a long long time. Of course, this was spotted by Sergey Alakov and not just posted on Twitter but also on his blog, which is rare for Sergey…

August 2016, Google introduced ads in the local pack. That was one single ad at the top of the local results when you do a search that has local intent…