If you are outside of the US or a Service Area Business listing you will have realised that Google does not allow you to generate the marketing material (Print and share your favourite reviews as custom posters, personalised videos, social images, table tents and more) with the Small Thanks with Google Tool. That is until […]
Finding or manually creating a Google review link for service area business (SAB) listings is quite frankly a pain in the ass, that is until I came across a new Google Review tool and generating your google review link could not be easier. Whats more, unlike some of the other tools available, it does not […]
Excuse the title of the article, but it highlights just how ridiculous Google Reviews have become and why does Google My Business even allow reviews for a prison listing?. The first clue for Google My Business should be in their own Business Guidelines, “n order to qualify for a Google My Business listing, a business […]
Hot on the heels of being able to add restaurant menus to a Google Business Page, businesses are now able to add a Services Menu to their Google Business Listing. Currently not being displayed in desktop KP but is displayed in mobile under “menu”. The menu display is an offshoot from the restaurant […]
Google My Business now allows you to add a business description to your Google Business Page that appears within the business knowledge panel in search. How to Add Your Business Description to Your Google My Business Listing Log into your Google My Business Dashboard: https://business.google.com/locations Select the business listing in dashboard Navigate to the […]
Restaurant Schema and Structured Data Markup allows the restaurant to markup their information for search engines to understand the data being presented to them on page. The most basic being the Name and Address of the restaurant to marking up your entire menu or booking options. With the added information that a restaurants Google Business […]
Google My Business has been on fire recently with updates for business listings, the new one relates to restaurants being able to add their entire menu direct into the listing. The added bonus of taking the time to add your entire menu to their Google business listing is that Google uses this information to create […]
Currently there are two menu bugs that are affecting some Google Business Listings for some restaurants. The bugs relate to the menu url not being displayed in the knowledge panel and local search and the second being the new add menu section not being displayed in the restaurants account dashboard. Restaurant Menu URL Not Being […]
Today I noticed that one of my clients had both the Knowledge Graph and Knowledge Panel appearing for the business in search results. Typically these are not separate entities but combined within the businesses knowledge panel. The site does not have Organization structured data on site but LocalBusiness structured data which includes SameAs fields for […]
How long do Google Reviews that have been flagged as inappropriate take to be removed? The process of flagging the review in theory follows a simple route. You flag the review as inappropriate (violating a particular guideline) this then gets queue’d up for a human to look at and decide if the review does violate […]
Google My Business released a new way to report spam businesses direct to Google without having to resort to suggest edits or trying to report via social media or forums. This also means that the Spam section in the Google My Business help forum will be removed when the platform updates in the next few […]
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