Category: Google Maps

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…

Tim Colling posted on Google+ and it was also added to the Local Search Forums that Google My Business is now asking business owners to set the date they first opened up their business…

Google announced in the Google My Business Help forums and on Twitter that now restaurants can add and edit their menu listings directly in the Google My Business console…

Several months ago, we covered how Google was testing vacation rentals in the Google Maps and local results. So when I saw Allyson Wright, the Community Manager at Google My Business mention it yesterday in a Google My Business Help thread…

Over a week ago, Google enabled the ability to upload videos to local listings within Google My Business or the local listings photos section…

Remember Google launched their third attempt at offering small businesses an easy way to build a web site, this time in Google My Business last year. Well, if you do use it, then Google will show by default…

As we reported, Google launched video uploads in Google My Business but we also reported even though it says the videos would show 24 hours after upload, those videos are still not showing…

Google is testing showing the number of views or impressions on reviews within Google Maps and local results. Thilo Corneille posted a screen shot of this on Twitter…

About 10 days ago we reported some businesses and merchants were seeing video upload features in the Google My Business dashboard. Well, Google’s Allyson Wright announced in a Google My Business Help thread on Friday that this feature is now fully li…

It feels like every other day where Google is testing a new feature and user interface in the local search results finder interface and/or hotel search…