Search Engine Land

AUGUST 16, 2023

Google may soon allow businesses and organizations to manage their social media links that show up on their local listing within Google Search and Google Maps. Google added a new help document on how to manage your social links in Google Business Profiles. Learn how to find your profile.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Google has added new details to both Google Business Profiles listings and some shopping listings. Google added a new business attribute named “small business” that will show up on a business’s Google Maps and local listing, as well as their shopping results.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 24, 2023

Google Business Profile and other types of Google-related phone scams are on the rise in 2023, according to data shared with Search Engine Land by voice security service Hiya. Google Business Profiles are free, but that hasn’t stopped scammers from trying to profit from them for years.

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 15, 2023

Google’s new Search Generative Experience , which began rolling out a few weeks ago , now can use Google Business Profile data to help it create its AI-generated snapshot answer. I was even able to replicate it for my own Google Business listing for my company. What it looks like.

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Backlinko

JANUARY 25, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, establishing a presence in local search results is crucial for businesses, and a Google Business Profile (GBP), previously known as Google My Business, plays a pivotal role in achieving this. Yet, just creating a business listing isn’t enough. Here’s an example.

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Search Engine Roundtable

AUGUST 26, 2022

Google is testing allowing business owners add captions or descriptions to photos they upload to their business profiles. Mike Blumenthal spotted this in a Google Business Profile Help thread and also posted about it on Twitter.

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Buffer Marketing

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With a background in the dynamic airline industry, I transitioned into small business ownership ten years ago, where I became intimately involved in marketing tasks. During this time, I stumbled upon search engine optimization (SEO) and recognized its pivotal role in driving business success. 

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Search Engine Roundtable

JANUARY 16, 2023

Google Business Profiles seems to be testing, beta testing, the ability for businesses to add more details, to "say more about" their business attributes.

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Search Engine Roundtable

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Google is now redirecting some (or all) of those trying to edit their business profiles in the Google Business Profile manager to the Google Search interface. You can still manage to get in there but on first click, you are taken to Google Search to manage your business.

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Search Engine Roundtable

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With the World Cup just around the corner, Google is asking certain businesses, like bars, restaurants and other venues if they will be showing the world cup at their location.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Want your local company to rank higher in Google search results? Claiming and optimizing your Google Business Profile (GBP) is one of the best things you can do to help. Managing a GBP listing from Google search is not new. People have been able to manage a Business Profile from Google search since 2017.

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Search Engine Roundtable

JULY 27, 2022

It appears that Google Business Profiles is pushing more and more to verify their businesses using video verification. We covered this before, as Google set this as the default option, but not as offering video as the only option.

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Search Engine Roundtable

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Google Maps app for Android has seem to add a new tab to manage your business profile(s). The tab shows a store icon with the word "Business" below it. Clicking it, lets you manage your Google Business Profile listing directly in the app.

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Search Engine Roundtable

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Google has added some new features around attraction and tour operators including the ability to edit your ticket prices directly in Google Business Profiles.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

There are numerous cases of businesses losing all of their reviews that they have acquired over the years in their Google Business Profile listings. The result, when you look at the business listing in Google Search or Google Maps, the reviews no longer exist. The report. Reviews disappear.

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Search Engine Roundtable

AUGUST 4, 2022

Google has added yet another business attribute for Google Business Profiles - Asian-owned businesses. This is a new label that can be added to your business in Google Maps and Google Search "making it easier to find Asian-owned businesses in their own community," Google said.

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Search Engine Roundtable

OCTOBER 21, 2022

There are numerous reports of Google doing some mass pruning and removals of reviews from the local maps results, from Google Business Profile listings. This is done every now and then, it is unclear if this is a bug or some new filter being applied to already approved reviews.

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Search Engine Roundtable

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I am sure many of you have received one or two (or more) requests from Google Business Profiles saying the owner is requested access to maintain your business. I just delete them but I am hearing from Local SEOs that this is becoming more and more of an issue.

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Search Engine Roundtable

OCTOBER 3, 2022

There seems to be a much higher level of Google Business Profiles suspended in the past couple of weeks than one would typically see. So a higher number of businesses set up in Google Maps are being suspended and removed from the Google local search results.

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Search Engine Roundtable

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The new Google Business Profile interface in Google Search to update your local listing can show the previous location your business was listed at before you tried to move that location.

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Buffer Marketing

JULY 27, 2022

💡 We're hosting an exclusive webinar where we walk through 10 ways to gain customers with your Google Business Profile. Publishing regularly on your Google Business Profile. ’ or ‘since when could you post on Google?’ Only 500 seats available. Save your seat here.

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Search Engine Roundtable

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Google Business Profiles lets you access and edit your business profile from web search (like it or not) and recently, Google has been testing showing a "see photos" button in addition to the normal "add photos" button.

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Search Engine Roundtable

APRIL 26, 2022

Google has added a section to the Google Business Profile Performance Metrics (formerly Google My Business Insights) for products. This section shows you how your products performed in Google Maps and local search. It shows you how many people viewed your products and what your top products are.

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Search Engine Roundtable

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Google seems to be testing showing when a photo was taken or uploaded to a Google Business Profile listing. Google has done this for image search and other areas but I am not sure if this was done for photos on Business Profiles.

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Search Engine Roundtable

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Google seems to be rolling out a new "top products" report to the performance reports within Google Business Profiles. As you know, businesses can add products in numerous ways to their Google Business Profile local listing, and here is a new report to track the performance of those products in local search.

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Search Engine Roundtable

AUGUST 1, 2022

Google Search is testing a new expanded menu for the Google Business Profile tool in Google Web Search. This allows you to click an arrow down to expand the options to edit your business profile directly in the desktop Google Search interface.

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Search Engine Roundtable

JUNE 16, 2022

Google is testing a new local widget for businesses owners to help them maintain their Google Business Profile. The widget is named "profile strength" and it shows up in the Google Search results when you search for a company you manage in Google Business Profile manager.

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Search Engine Roundtable

JUNE 23, 2022

Google has added yet another business attribute for Google Business Profiles - LGBTQ+ owned businesses. This is a new label that can be added to your business in Google Maps and Google Search "making it easier for customers to find and support them," Google said.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Google’s new editing experience for Business Profiles has rolled out. The Google Business Profile Manager is still here, but the ability to edit a listing in the interface is gone. This is a massive change that business owners and SEOs alike are not thrilled about. What is the Google NMX?

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Search Engine Roundtable

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Google may now show you the time it takes to review a requested edit in Google Business Profiles. So if you edit, let's say, your business category, Google may show you that this type of edit takes about 10 minutes to be reviewed by someone at Google.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Google Business Profiles can be claimed by the owner or business manager in Google Maps or in Google Search. According to some in the local SEO community, there has been an increase in the number of fraudulent requests to claim and take ownership of business listings. Increase in fake claims.

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Search Engine Journal

JANUARY 31, 2023

The post Google Business Profile Optimization For The Financial Vertical appeared first on Search Engine Journal. Develop a unique optimization strategy for your financial brand. Here are the best practices you should follow for GBP.

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Search Engine Roundtable

JANUARY 16, 2023

Late last week, Google Business Profiles had a bug where uploading images to your business profile would fail. This was reported first by Tim Capper on Twitter on Thursday and the issue continued in through the weekend.

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Search Engine Journal

AUGUST 9, 2022

Duplicate content in posts published by Google Business Profiles is now considered spam, according to an updated document on content policies. The post Google: Avoid Duplicate Content In Business Profile Posts appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Search Engine Roundtable

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Joy Hawkins and friends re-did a study they did years ago to discover that now the services you add to your Google Business Profiles now have an impact on your local rankings - at least way more than it did in 2019.

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Search Engine Roundtable

OCTOBER 4, 2022

There are some reports that in some industries, like the auto dealership industry, there is a bug with Google Business Profile insights reporting. There shows a large and unaccounted-for spike in traffic from Google Local and Google Maps for some of these businesses in these Google reports.

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Search Engine Roundtable

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Google is testing including the local business profile listings in Google Discover. There is this new section named "mentioned in this article" where Google can show the local business listing of companies that were noted in the article.

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