Online Ownership is please to announce that we are now a Google My Business Trusted Verifier. What is a Google Trusted Verifier? A Google Trusted Verifier is a trusted partner that is able to verify a Google Business Listing, whether this is an unclaimed listing or a newly created listing. Because these listing are […]
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Restaurants Scramble to Remove 3rd Party Menu Sites from GMB Listings
There has been a recent scramble from restaurants wanting to remove 3rd party menus sites from their Google business listings. The reason for this uptake in restaurants asking how to remove these menu ordering sites is because Google started testing Post like Ads from the 3rd Party Menu Ordering sites into the restaurants local knowledge […]
How to Report & Remove Duplicate Google Business Listing
There are a number of reasons why a duplicate Google My Business listings appear, most often as a result of a well meaning employee creating a business page or when the business moved and the original business listing not being moved with a new one being created for the new location. No matter how they […]
Google Local Service Ads in the UK & What You Need To Know
Google Local Services Ads have been quietly updating their Google Ads Help resources with UK information which is a clear indication that Local Service Ads will be appearing somewhere soon in the UK. The signup page is still not displaying the UK as an available country, which indicates they are still on boarding the first […]
Anomalies Still in Google Business Listing Search Queries, but Getting better
At the beginning of July Google My Business started rolling our Search Queries within Insights. Reporting at the time my own search queries included some really bizarre search queries, other looked okay’ish with the very odd search query here and there. Allowing a couple of weeks to settle down I revisit my search queries and […]
How to Add a UTM Tracking Code to your Google Business Page
A UTM code is an additional string of code that you add to a URL in order to track the source, medium and campaign that produced a visit to your website. Do not get freaked out by the use of the word “code”, it does not require any developer knowledge, anyone that can copy and […]
How Google Exploits the Hospitality Industry for Profit
The hospitality industry is being exploited by Google for their own profit. To be clear this article is not about regular search results where thousands of pages compete in an algorithmic mash up, this is for the actual brand or name search of the business and the associated Google business listing that the hotel manages […]
Search Queries Launched in Google Business Page Insights
This has been an insights request from business users to Google My Business for quite some time, and finally Google My Business is rolling out search queries in Google My Business Dashboards. Search Queries are what people searched to find your business listing and clicked through to your website. Search Queries in Insights Current […]
Small Business in Leeds Going Out of Business Because of Google
This Small Business in Leeds is Going Out of Business Because of Google, is not clickbait, its not sensationalist, it is the very scary truth of how Google’s inability to manage negative review attacks on a Google Business Listing is leading to the closure of a small business in Leeds. For those of you that […]
Why Setting your Service Area Radius Over 50 miles is Pointless
Google My Business allows businesses that “serve customers at the customers location” to select a service area radius on their Google business listing. This service area radius defines how far you provide that service from your business location. Typically a service area business works within a 50 mile radius, and some may even serve up […]