Google Business Profile Manager video affirmation now once you add a brand new profile

Ben Fisher informed me that now when you add a new company to Google Business Profiles (formerly Google My Business), Google now By default As part of the verification workflow, asks you if you want to perform video verification. Google started Video review in 2018, but it wasn’t that easy to use.

The video review was one of the few options to verify your business, but now it’s like a standard option that is part of the process when you add a business to Google Maps.

Ben continued Twitter “Google Business Profile Manager is adding a video review to the new listing flow. And … it’s great!”

Here is the screen that prompts you to:

You will then receive a QR code:

Ben said the process is that on the first page you see before the QR code there is a description of what GBP need to see in the video. Then record outside signage like your street name or nearby shops. Then show in your company or in your tools of the trade and then show evidence of management, e.g. B. by showing that you have access to items or areas that only employees can access.

Forum discussion at Twitter.