Category: Google Maps

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…

The Local Guides, Google’s most trusted and frequent users of the Google Maps/local business reviews, are complaining that the Google app for them to leave reviews of places they visit is buggy…

Yesterday, Google pushed out an update to the iOS version of the Google My Business app. But as I reported at Search Engine Land that after I downloaded it, it froze out and wouldn’t let me us it. Now when I try to access it…

In November, Google enabled select countries to upload their latitude and longitude coordinates in their data upload process. But now…

Pete Meyers posted on Twitter a new test Google is conducting in the local pack. Google is showing review snippets on some of the local results directly under the address of the snippet…

There was a lot I wanted to cover on Friday but was afraid some of that news would get looked over because it was April Fools Day. If you missed…

Typically when you do a search that brings up local results in the web search results, the local box or whatever Google is calling it these days – you see 3 listings now and if those listings have reviews…

Did you know that starting a few weeks ago, the Google Local Guides unlocked a special feature in the Google Maps app that let’s them not just add reviews but also add photos to their reviews…