Google My Business is currently rolling out the new “built from the ground up” Google My Business App, designed to allow merchants to work on the go. The layout is neater, clearer and contains three new tabs in the footer menu: Home Customers Profile Home Tab in GMB App This is your “landing page” […]
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Understanding the 4 Types of Holiday Shoppers for Local Business
There’s nothing quite like the holiday shopping season. It’s both magical and maddening for consumers and business owners alike. Holiday shoppers come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and personalities. Some are old-school and only shop at local shops, some do all of their shopping online, and some do both. Some shop late, some shop […]
Google My Business Trusted Verifier (UK)
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 […]
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 […]
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Google Strips Local Business from Organic SERPS
On the 30th May something changed in Google that has stripped all local businesses from organic search results for the term – “Airport Transfers” (there may be other queries out there!) This is before the announced June core algo update. Local Intent Removed from Search Results As Stephen Davies mentioned in a […]
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