Apple Business Connect now lets you add links to your local listings that show up in Apple Maps. This is under the “actions” section that enables customers to order food, buy tickets, schedule an appointment, and more. Apple says: The Maps Place Card can include relevant custom action buttons that enable customers to order food, … Read more
Google has announced a number of new travel features with Google Maps and Travel around driving alternatives, trains and buses, travel impact mode and then some new EV driving direction features. Google says these features are to give you more “sustainable choices.” Here are summaries of these announcements: Google Maps / Travel (1) Driving alternatives … Read more
Google announced updates to its Maps and Search products on Monday aimed at helping users find and choose more sustainable transportation options over gas-powered vehicles. James Byers, Google Search’s Group Product Manager, states: “When it comes to traveling and commuting, we want people to have the right information to make more sustainable choices.” Eco-Friendly Route … Read more
Google Maps will soon stop supporting drafting reviews for local business listings and Google Business Profiles. Google said that starting July 16, 2024, review drafts will no longer be supported. Google added that all the existing drafts will be removed from your account and Google Maps and you will be unable to save new drafts … Read more
Google has updated the Suggest an edit feature within Google Maps business listings. Google said the new flow is “easier” and should help make updates to the Google Maps data. Google posted about this change over here and explained how the flow now works: Search for a place or select it on the map. … Read more
If you’re an advertiser with a brick-and-mortar presence, it’s more important than ever to claim and advertise your business on Google Maps. However, cracking the code on how to serve and control Google Maps ads may feel like a moving target over the last few months. With changes to Performance Max goals, Google Business Profile … Read more
This week we covered that Google is now testing SGE in the wild for a small subset of US users. Google is begging SEOs to stop doing SEO for Google. Then SEOs are like, should we remove our Contact Us and About Us pages? Google said publishing more content doesn’t make your website higher quality. … Read more
Joy Hawkins shared a very unusual bug with Google Maps where it places businesses with different addresses in the same location in the same map pin area. It just drops these map pins in one address when they are not located by that map pin. Joy Hawkins posted on X calling this a “new spamming … Read more
We’ve been covering many of the Google Maps changes, many related to what searchers see in Europe related to the required DMA changes Google has to make. But searchers are complaining about several of these changes in the Google forums. There has been many complaints in the Google forums about not being able to see … Read more
Google is no longer showing the number of views a review gets on Google Maps. You will be able to see the older reviews view-counts for now but the new reviews are not showing those counts. Curtis Boyd spotted this change and posted on X saying, “Google Maps is no longer showing view count (impressions) … Read more
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