Category: Google Maps

Google quietly added a new features to Google My Business Settings at business.google.com/settings that let’s you configure when and how you’d like to get notifications about changes or additions to your business listings on Google…

Google quietly added a new features to Google My Business Settings at business.google.com/settings that let’s you configure when and how you’d like to get notifications about changes or additions to your business listings on Google…

Google is testing a new look for the local finder, one that is way more graphical. This was spotted by Sergey Alakov, he posted the screen shots on Twitter. And the truth is…

Google is now testing a new feature in the Google My Business area that lets customers initiate a chat with your business from your local listing in Google search or Google Maps. This was first spotted by Dino Basaldella who posted it on Google+…
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You thought back a year and a half ago when Google released popular times for venues and stores, where it showed typically how busy a store is by day and hour, that it was really cool…

Over the past week or so two different people shared with me on Twitter that Google is showing the query in the local pack, above the map embed. So not only is Google showing the query in the query box but also reinforcing that above the map pack…
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Now when you leave a review using Google Maps or Google Local results, you can add a photo or video to your review on Google. This was first spotted by Garrett Sussman who posted about it as well at the Local Search Forums…

Google has killed off their Google Map Maker product and has told people the features have “graduated” to the Google Maps app…

The Google My Business features page say Google updated the Google My Business editor yesterday. The line reads:

Update business info for your locations using the improved Google My Business editor…

Google has shut down the Google Showtimes service, which was available at google.com/movies for a long long time. The message on the site now reads:

Google Showtimes was discontinued on November 1…

Our maps sleuth spotted yet another test with Google Maps, Sergey Alakov posted on Twitter Google testing a “see web results” button in the Google Maps local results section.

If you click on that button, you are taken to the web results and out of the…

A Google My Business Help thread has a business complaining that their store hours are not coming up in the Google local listing profile.

Later on, Google said they fixed the issue…

We’ve seen the blue pins in the Google Maps results before but now Google is able to display three red pins showing off the local pack results and one additional blue pin…

Google My Business posted an update that says you can now manage your business attributes in the Google My Business dashboard. So if you’ve uploaded these attributes using the spreadsheet method…

Florent Abaziou posted screen shots on Twitter of Google Maps showing the local version of the business name under the English version of the business name in the maps description. He said this is “great for global businesses” and shared several examp…

Here is a small but interesting change Google is testing for the local pack map in the search results. Sergey Alakov posted a screen shot of it on Twitter showing a small toggle button in the map image that lets you expand the map fully…

The folks over at Synup created a Google My Business Guidelines checker tool. Now, this is not a pass or fail tool but it does mark items it thinks are important for you to make sure you meet the Google My Business guidelines…