Category: Google Maps

In 2012, Google did away with anonymous Google Maps reviews from “A Google User” or at least they did with some bugs here and there but for the most part, you did not see reviews from anonymous users…

Google has added a new view to edit your business information in the Google My Business login area. Google calls this the “navigation experience” and has updated their change log to say “edit your business information using the new Google My Business …

As you know, you need to verify your business on Google My Business to be listed as a verified business in Google Maps results and the local pack nicely. You can do that via snail mail verification, phone verification, Google Search Console verificat…

Google announced last week on the Asia Pacific blog that they are rolling out a feature in the Google Maps user interface to add on top of the business names, the business category or type of business it is…

Grace from Google posted an interesting thread in the Google Maps Help forums about how to opt out of the Google’s in-field operators scans…

Joy Hawkins asked in a Local Search Forum thread if Google will filter the gold stars shown in the organic search results for local results for specific industries…

If you search for [Andrew Nikolic] on Google Australia you can see he has a bit of an online reputation management problem. Andrew Nikolic’s office is categorized as a “Rubbish Dump” in the knowledge panel…

Google Now is powerful, it is very powerful and the power keeps growing (scary ehh…

Tim Coling reported in the Local Search Forums that his client received an email asking them to load up more photos on their Google local listing. It said “Photos are missing from your [company name] listing on Google…

A Google search for hotels brings up hotel results in Google Maps. When you click on a hotel listing, it will show you a ton of information…

Last week, Google has updated the address formats used for bulk uploads of your Google local listings. Google called this “improve data for your worldwide locations by following the new address guidelines and sample spreadsheet…

Google has quietly released (or hasn’t announced the release yet) of the new version of the Google My Business API. The new version is version 3.0 and comes several months after launching the last one in December 2015…

Google has quietly released (or hasn’t announced the release yet) of the new version of the Google My Business API. The new version is version 3.0 and comes several months after launching the last one in December 2015…

Google announced on Google+ that you can now control and navigate around Google Maps with your keyboard. You can pan and zoom as well as find and learn more about specific places like neighborhoods, transit stations and shops and restaurants…
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When you use your mobile phone on iOS or Android, Google and Apple both try to get you to set your home and work address. But now, if you search for certain queries with location qualifiers…

Sergey Alakov posted on Twitter a screen shot of Google testing a slimmed down or reduced size local box. If you search for a specific company, normally it will give you a nice branded box for the company, with the map, address, phone number and so on….

I recently found two threads in the Google Maps Help forums asking about how one can delete their inside street views for their business…

I love the Local Search Forum because these SEOs are so knee deep into the local search results that it is amazing what they pick up on. One local SEO said she thought that Google had a handle on not showing duplicate listings in the local pack…
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