Last year we saw Google send out a survey asking 1001 questions about monetization possibilities for the GMB and the business profile. Last week, we saw them hijacking Business Profiles and inserting Local Service Ad (LSA) call tracking numbers into the profiles. Now we now why; 1 + 1 = 50. Or rather, GMB +…
Last week Mike wrote an article about the new direct edit experience for Google My Business listings. As of this afternoon, we are seeing it in the wild. What has us really excited is the ability to view performance metrics graphed up to a six month period with a year-over-year comparison. It would be nice…
Nov 23, 2020 Update: The missing responses appear to all be back now. It’s another week and another round of Google review issues. On Wednesday, November 11th, there was a technical issue that prevented new Google from being published. This technical issue lasted two days. The team was able to identify the problem, and the…
Good Morning, LocalU Friends! Last week we were lucky enough to have a wide variety of GMB experts weigh in for our first #gmbchat co-held by LocalU and Sterling Sky, our parent company. We had time in the hour to address 10 great questions crowdsourced from Twitter and some question submissions and we’re excited to…
As far back as 2019 I recall that users would ask how can I edit or control the social profiles on my GBP? The answer from anyone who worked with GBP was usually the same. Try JSON, Try SameAs schema markup. Pray to the Google Gods! Well for the longest time, Social Media links…
Google recently updated their guidelines for businesses managing profiles on search and maps. The much welcomed update is aimed to provide clarity around how to manage your business information as well as share some reasons why you could run into challenges with the verification of your business. One of the areas that was updated was…