Category: Google Maps

Google has officially launched the messaging feature for Google My Business users based in the US. This allows Google My Business businesses to go to their dashboard and turn on messaging…

A week ago, Mike Blumenthal covered a new Google test around the Google My Business platform. In short, it appears Google is trying hard to get business owners to update their Google My Business listings…

Sergey Alakov posted a screen shot on Twitter of the local panel showing other locations available for a specific restaurant. Often…

Google announced in the Google Maps Help forums that they have finally released Google Earth Pro 7.3.0 for Mac, Windows and Linux. With this release…

Sergey Alakbov spotted yet another new tab being added to the local panel box. This one is for restaurants showing a “menu” tab where you can quickly load the menu.

Google recently added the tabs to the local panel and expanded it to hotels and now…

I don’t see the information currently in the help documents but it appears the Google Posts you make in Google My Business expires around seven days later…

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…