Post by account_disabled on Mar 4, 2024 1:34:51 GMT -6
The running theme with all these changes seems to be the following three things Google is taking local seriously Google wants to get more local data through its crawler and Google really really wants more reviews. But lets not jump ahead of ourselves. First lets review some of the major changes that have occurred over the last few months. Whats changed . No more descriptions for Google My Business The most recent change to Google My Business occurred on August rd when Google My Business stopped accepting edits to the description.
The description will still be editable through Google but with the way the Greece Mobile Number List rest of the company has been distancing itself from its social platform thats likely not to stick around for long. . Additional categories no longer supported Additionally though it got lost in the shuffle a bit when they removed the descriptions they also removed the following sections from their bulk upload form Ad Icon URL Ad Landing Page URL Alt Phone. Alt phone is now Additional phones. Categories. This field has been replaced by Primary category and Additional categories. City. City is now Locality. Description Email Fax Payment Types State. State is now Administrative area. . Google metrics removed additional Google My Business Insights In a separate announcement Google also removed Google metrics from their dashboard instead providing more detailed metrics around the source of views to your GMB profile.
Google My Business now shows whether customers found a business via search or Google Maps and breaks down actions customers are taking by website visits driving direction requests phone calls or photos. . And in yet another announcement this month Google released the ability for all websites to have Critic Reviews published directly in Google search results next to the local businesses results. Days later Google backed up this announcement by promoting the detailed Schema Markup needed to apply for critic reviews. For reviews on Google My Business itself they added the ability to respond to reviews on Google directly.
The description will still be editable through Google but with the way the Greece Mobile Number List rest of the company has been distancing itself from its social platform thats likely not to stick around for long. . Additional categories no longer supported Additionally though it got lost in the shuffle a bit when they removed the descriptions they also removed the following sections from their bulk upload form Ad Icon URL Ad Landing Page URL Alt Phone. Alt phone is now Additional phones. Categories. This field has been replaced by Primary category and Additional categories. City. City is now Locality. Description Email Fax Payment Types State. State is now Administrative area. . Google metrics removed additional Google My Business Insights In a separate announcement Google also removed Google metrics from their dashboard instead providing more detailed metrics around the source of views to your GMB profile.
Google My Business now shows whether customers found a business via search or Google Maps and breaks down actions customers are taking by website visits driving direction requests phone calls or photos. . And in yet another announcement this month Google released the ability for all websites to have Critic Reviews published directly in Google search results next to the local businesses results. Days later Google backed up this announcement by promoting the detailed Schema Markup needed to apply for critic reviews. For reviews on Google My Business itself they added the ability to respond to reviews on Google directly.