Category: Google Maps

A couple weeks ago we reported that Google was testing a new local pack design. Well, it seems like that design is now the new way forward for Google…

Mike Blumenthal posted on Twitter that Google has updated the local reviews guidelines for marking up reviews.

The new guidelines specifically disallows you from using 3rd party reviews, found on other sites…

Google quietly posted on the release notes for Google My Business that you can now accept or discard Google updates for individual fields in bulk for your Google My Business listing.

The updated help document details the steps for doing this on deskto…

Sergey Alakov posted screen shots on Twitter of Google testing a new design for the local pack.

The most obvious change in the design is a big white space and line separator between the web site icon and the directions icon…

In November of last year, Google posted that the old business hours spreadsheet format will no longer be supported. Well, that officially went through on on August 8, 2016. If you are using the old spreadsheet format…

The Google My Business blog announced a new update to the insights, the analytics within Google My Business. The new features include the ability to see how people viewed your lists, i.e. from Google Search or from Google Maps. Also, you can see if th…

It looks like the Google My Business insights section, where you can see statistics on your Google Maps / Local listings…

Google My Business, the place businesses can go to update their business details as they are listed on Google Maps and Google Local, has been updated…

Yesterday I reported how Google Maps dropped the ability to edit your introductory or description business field. It wasn’t showing on your Google Maps listing anyway, and it is hard to find on your Google+ business listing…

Google quietly posted in the changelog yesterday that they have removed the ability to edit and see the business listings introduction or description field.

Google said:

The Introduction/Description field is no longer editable in Google My Business…

Google has updated the design for how you view business photos and inside street view imagery.

Sergey Alakov first spotted this and posted about it on Twitter. The new design seems cleaner and fresher…

Eric Wu started noticing many local knowledge box results on Google link to URLs that have little to no information provided by SinglePlatform. He posted a screen shot on Twitter which I can replicate…

Google My Business added a useful and graphical import summary screen for businesses that upload their listings using spreadsheets in bulk form…

On Friday, I reported about the compression and hyper localization of the google Maps results. Well, it has been a few days and it has not changed…

Over the weekend Brian Barwig and @NortheasternExt both notified me on Twitter that Google is now showing a new feature in the Google Maps local listings for how long a person typically spends at a specific venue…

Google Maps recently tested the ability to verify your business using video verification but Google is constantly testing different methods of business verification.

Kiran C Kumar posted on Twitter that he is receiving an option to verify his Google M…

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been seeing sporadic reports from some local SEO experts that the local results are becoming more “hyperlocal” and/or fewer results are showing for local specific queries…

Nicolai Helling posted on Google+ a new shopping and maps feature that Google seems to be testing that allows searches to click on a button to search the local stores inventory directly from the map results…

If you are logged into your Google My Business account and you do a web search for a business you have ownership of in Google, Google will let you edit the listing right in the local knowledge panel…