Category: Google Maps

Our friend Sergey Alakov spotted yet another Google local test, this one is Google testing a tab approach to showing reviews on local knowledge…

Google loves carousels, they just really love them. Now they are testing the carousel user interface for the local listing user interface for hotel booking. Sergey Alakov, who else…

Sergey Alakov was again, the first, if not one of the first, to spot this local reviews change – where when you see a local pack in the Google results, you can now filter those listings by reviews in a more granular manner. So now you can filter by hal…

Sergey Alakov shared a couple of Google tests over the weekend…

Google Insights within Google My Business is the analytics tool that shows business owners how much action their Google Maps/Local listing is getting…

Moz released their local search ranking factors study results for 2017. They do these studies every two years by survey the smartest local SEOs out there. You can view the full results here if you have not seen them already…

Google quietly added a feature to the Google My Business spreadsheet uploads to enter URL attributes. These URL attributes can be used to link to things like your restaurants menu or other business information that is useful to searchers…

Google seems to be testing showing the number of reviews a reviewer has under his or her belt in the reviews snippet for local search results…

Google is testing, yet another, Google local knowledge panel user interface. This one is where the local knowledge panel is not even showing the map in the box. Yes, Google is testing not showing a map for local results in the Google search results……

If you search in Google for local businesses and get even more specific, such as ask for their reviews, phone number, address, hours of operation and so on, Google will now give you that information in the local box…

Sergey Alakov spotted another change to the Google local pack, this one is where Google is removing the city name from the local pack results when the results are nearby your…

Glass Digital shared a screen shot on Twitter of Google showing extra local review data from the popular UK paper, The Guardian. In fact…

So we’ve seen emojis in ads, search console, shopping campaigns…

Google seems to be swapping out the call and directions button in the local pack and replacing it with a featured image from the local business. I was personally able to replicate both user interfaces for the same query and screen shot it as Google …

Mike Blumenthal spotted Google testing a new format for the local finder results in the map results. Instead of a list view…

Google has updated their Google My Business guidelines specifically to clarify how a business should list their address for service-area businesses and virtual offices. The new section is in the expandable “address” section and titled “Service-area bu…

Sergey Alakov, the local pack watch man, has spotted more changes with the local pack and posted them on Twitter. The latest one shows how Google is showing local results based on your query based on knowing your location X minutes ago…