3 ways to directly link users to review your business in Google maps
This week Google Updated its Guidelines to specifically prohibit giving incentives to customers who left a bad review to change it. The thing is that […]
How to change my business to “Service Area” in Google Maps
If your business doesn’t have a permanent location with the classic signage, and you don’t receive customer visits in your location (i.e. a Plumber, locksmith […]
How to delete my business from Google Maps
Closing a business is painful. But it can be even more painful to have it removed from Google Maps. As a rare exception to the […]
How to track Google Reviews, and why every local business should track them
Tracking your reviews is critical to determining whether your business is facing some threats (lose the current rating) or to benefit from opportunities (increase your rating faster!).
It also helps you understand your baseline and quickly identify when your rating is drifting (and why).
Tracking your reviews also will naturally help you set targets, and you will intuitively push to reach them.
What happened to the Google My Business APP and what to do about it
Google has been warning us for a long time that they were shutting down the Google My Business app in July 2022:
Google Business Messages for local business: Should you activate the business chat or not? 🤔
Few years ago Google introduced a very cool feature for Local Business Owners: a chat to allow customers (specially the ones considering buying from us) to chat with businesses from Google Maps. This is called Google Business Messages and has it’s own entity in Google.
Google Maps is testing new expanded review forms for Restaurants, Hotels and Attractions
Google is launching expanded review forms for the Hotel, Restaurant and Attraction categories and this is what you have to know about.
My customer reviews are not showing up on Google Maps
10-06-2022 Update: Barry Schwartz recently wrote about this topic 30-06-2022 Update: I found this great post from Joy Hawkins on the topic Has it happened […]
