Back in March, Google had added a “women-led” attribute to Google My Business profiles.  Veteran-run businesses are now getting the same treatment. On August 27, there was a blog post announcing the new attribute: Google is making it easier to identify your local business as veteran-led on Google Search and Maps. If your business is owned, led, or founded by a […]

A new feature is being rolled out by Google My Business that notifies business owners when their local listings go live in Google Maps and Google Search. The community manager of Google My Business, Allyson Wright, announced this in the forums, saying “We’re in the process [of] launching a new notification that informs you when your business […]

One of the greatest ways to get your local rankings is to claim and optimize your Google My Business (GMB) listing. Your Google My Business listing can not only increase your chance of showing up in the Google Local 3-pack, but when a Google user searches your business by name, Google will often show a Knowledge […]

A new report is rolling out in Google My Business in the Insights section of the console that is designed to display businesses how people are searching within Google search or Google Maps to find your local listings.  This is called the “queries to find your business” report, and it shows the most popular queries […]

The new redesigned Google Maps explore features  was Google has been announced and has begun rolling out worldwide on June 26. Sophia Lin, senior product manager for Google Maps, said, “Many of these features start rolling out worldwide today.” To learn more about what has changed and how you can explore the new Google Maps, check out Search […]

A new report has been added to Google My Business insights for some businesses that plots what is called “subjective attributes.”  So what are subjective attributes?  They are characteristic or experiences assigned to the business by consumers, such as romantic, notable cocktails, cozy, and the like.  These subjective attributes are being plotted by Google for […]

On June 6, Google announced that within Google My Business, two new Google Posts categories are now available.   Not only can you use Google Posts to tell people about all the news about your business or upcoming event, but it’s possible to create posts about new products and offers that you want to highlight. “We’ve added 2 new post […]

In an announcement made by Google yesterday, Google My Business My Business Agency Dashboard launched. The Agency Dashboard lets local marketing agencies and local SEOs manage multiple listings in an even more productive and efficient way.  You can register here to access the new dashboard: Here are the features available within the new Agency Dashboard: Manage all your locations […]

More and more features have been released by Google for Google My Business (GMB).  With things like posts, photos, videos, booking, business descriptions, reviews and more making optimizing your Google My Business listing an important factor for local business or digital marketing agency managing local search strategies. It can be a daunting task to stay on top […]

To this day, scammers are claiming to represent Google, while preying on small business owners.  They also make threats about removing listing or outrageous claims about ranking improvements.  At times, they will even try charging for things that are supposed to be free on Google. Previously, a number of things have been done by Google […]