Category: Google Maps

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…

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…