Typically I don’t post much on businesses buying fake reviews, but in compiling an escalation to the Google My Business spam team I noticed a whole wrath of negative 1 star reviews for the Danish Island of Fanø. What did Fanø do to deserve this?   Rooftop Livings Fake Reviews Fake reviews are not too […]

Products Menu (Beta) available in the Google My Business dashboard. This allows small businesses to be able to add products manually to their business listing and is visible in mobile search. This allows the small businesses that do not have the ability to integrate product feeds via Google merchant and or use Pointy, that automatically […]

This is a NON Event! This non event is intended to ask Google to stop scraping 3rd party sites and injecting this spam into the businesses Google My Business page. It provides no value to users and is becoming ridiculous. You Can Do Better!     Event: Stop Spamming Businesses Google #StopCrapOnTheMap Date: 1st April […]

Hotel Affiliate site tophotelsnearme.net is currently hijacking hotels Google My Business listings and replacing their official website URL with their own links. I was alerted to this by Craig Harkins and the #StopCrapOnTheMap hashtag that the Local SEO community uses to alert each other of local shenanigans.   https://t.co/olTRsh3NE6 is suggesting edits to hotel GMB […]

Mid October Google took the decision to open the floodgates on Events in appearing in the businesses knowledge panel and business listing. Events appearing in the Knowledge Panel have been in existence since 2016 and in order for the businesses event to appear in the knowledge panel, a businesses needed to provide Google with event […]

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” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]