Google has added a new option in the Business Redress Complaint Form under the “Identify the content on Google Maps that you claim might lead to fraudulent activity” drop down. The new option is “this business doesn’t exist” and the local SEO community are super happy about this addition. This form was updated in the […]
Google announced its 2021 Google Maps and Google Business Profile spam fighting efforts, like it did for the 2020 year. Google said it blocked more than 100 million Business Profile edits and protected over 100 thousand businesses from suspicious activity and abuse attempts. Google has been trying hard to portray a better image for its […]
the questions and answers section is often found for local listings local knowledge panel listing on both desktop and mobile but now it is also showing up in the Google Maps interface. Allie Margeson’s team spotted this now in the Google Maps interface and posted a screenshot on Twitter – here is that screen shot: […]
Google has added a section called “Updates from customers” to the Google business profile entries in the Google Maps user interface. This seems to show some recent reviews from Google Local Guides and this could be an issue for some businesses where Google might highlight a review that your customers might not see. Thibault Adda […]
Google Maps, the map interface, is testing displaying review snippets, short selected reviews, directly under the name of the business or organization in the map interface under the pin. This was spotted by Allie Margeson who said on Twitter “seeing review snippets get some prominence directly on the map and I like it!” Here is […]
Google Maps seems to be introducing or testing a new feature to dock locations and businesses at the bottom of the map page. You may see a blue dock button on the bottom that allows you to quickly reopen a place that you later docked. When you click on it, that location will be placed […]
Over the past week a lot of local SEOs have been talking about the big change in local results. It could be related to a Update of Google’s local search algorithm (Google hasn’t confirmed it yet) or it could be anti-spam efforts. But I see complaints that there is too much local spam now and […]
Google had added Today there are a number of Google Maps features, including more pickup with Google specifically in Krogers, restaurant price ranges, indoor map navigation, and the occupancy of venues in a given neighborhood. Pick up with Google Pickup with Google Maps now includes Kroger family stores such as Kroger, Fry’s, Ralphs and Mariano. […]