1+ In a shocking announcement Google has stated they will start selling the “Google Guarantee” badge to non-advertisers for a flat-rate of $50 per month. The Google Guarantee program offers unhappy customers up to $2,000 in refunds if they are unhappy with a local service provider’s work. For now this appears to be a test […]

1+ Google My Business allows anyone to edit a listing, and for quality purposes those edits are typically reviewed by human staffers. The process of editing a listing has always gone slowly in most cases, but since the onset of the global pandemic, things have gotten much slower. Recently Local SEOs took to Twitter to […]

1+ Google has updated the Google My Business Content Policy which governs Posts to a profile on the platform by adding a new line which reads: “Google My Business is not meant to be a forum for general political, social commentary, or personal rants. Content that does not meet this standard will be removed.” This […]

3+ Google My Business has just rolled out a useful new feature that was likely inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic, but which will probably come in handy for many local businesses even after. The new feature is called “More Hours”. It essentially allows a business to expand upon the standard “hours of operation” by stating […]

1+ According to Barry Schwartz over at Search Engine Roundtable, Google My Business has just added a new file upload button to the reinstatement request form. Google My Business adds a file upload for proof in the local business reinstatement form https://t.co/R75EDmZBxh via @TheSocialDude pic.twitter.com/OauwxdHI2z — Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) May 21, 2020 Barry says this […]

3+ Zach Todd over at Persuaded.io has released a Google Drive script that you can use to find all of the websites that link to your local competitors in Google maps for a specific keyword. This could really help your business’s local seo efforts. The script works by scraping the competitors on the map and […]