Category: Google Maps

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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Seems Google is now testing ads in the Google Maps local finder search results. There are several people on Twitter reporting it now.

Here are screen shots of the ads in the Google local finder results:

There is a lot of chatter now out in the…

It seems Google is now showing, at least I think it is new, search filters in the local pack you see when searching for local queries that might have more than one match…

Pete Meyers spotted and posted on Twitter a screen shot of the Google local 3-pack showing gas prices. I cannot replicate it but it seems Google is showing real-time has prices of nearby gas stations.

Here is a screen shot:

Google has shown this d…

Google keeps adding more and more ways to add special hours to your business information. First it was via spreadsheet and the Google My Business portal and then via the apps. Now, you can add it via the “card view…

After a serious bug with the Google My Business App for iOS that started mid-last week, the new updated version is now available for download in the Apple App iTunes Store.

Google submitted the fix before the weekend after removing it from the app sto…

Last week we reported that Google’s update for the Google My Business iOS app caused a serious bug that didn’t allow iOS users to open the app. Google quickly pulled down the update and removed the app from the app store…