Marketing on the Web Food businesses affected by COVID-19 Manage your dining options Let your customers know whether your food business offers takeout, delivery or curbside pickup and/or stopped providing dine-in service. Add or edit the "Dine-in," "Takeout," "Delivery," and "Curbside pickup" attributes on Google My Business. Tip: When customers search for your food business, your Business Profile will prominently show which of these dining options you currently support: “Dine-in,” “Takeout,” “Delivery,” or “C...
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Google Allowing Restaurants Add Delivery Or Takeout To GMB Business Listing
Google is making a rule exception to what you can use in your business name for some restaurants. You can write in your business name that your restaurant has "delivery available" or "takeout available." This is just for the time being, and is normally not allowed for business names in Google My Business. They did not update their help section This advice is primarily targeted at restaurants/grocery stores so if I were in a high risk category I wouldn’t think about it Google’s view an...
MoreGoogle My Business Features Removed Due to COVID-19
Due to COVID-19, Google My Business (GMB) has temporally suspended new reviews, replies, or new Q&A until further notice. Existing reviews, review replies, and Q&A will still be visible. New Listings, Claims, and Verifications Google My Business support team will prioritize reviewing new listings, claims, and verifications for critical health-related businesses. That means, with Google prioritizing critical services, other types of businesses can expect a delay for publication of ne...
MoreBusiness Listing Marked Temporally Closed
NOTICE: Check your Google Business listing! Google is auto-marking many businesses as "Temporally Closed." While this makes sense for schools, some businesses may have been unintentionally tagged.
MoreWhere do you Stack up in local Results?
A lot has changed in the way Google displays businesses in the past few years. The changes have come in slowly, so you may not have noticed, but Google Ads that only appeared on the right side of the page have now crept above the left column, pushing organic results down. Businesses that were near bottom on the first page may now be on the second page (or worse). Google is also displaying a "local stack", kind of a phonebook listing at the top of the page for searches it considers local (like...
MoreLocal Businesses Need a Google+ Local Page
As a part of your marketing strategy you need to have a Google local page. Google Local (formerly Google Places) is the web equivalent of the phone book. When Google translates a search as local in nature, these listings appear near the top of the search results. Local Listings are now part of Google Plus, enabling people to comment and vote on your business through their Google+ profiles. If you haven’t done so already, you’ll need to sign up for a personal Google+ account to create your...
MoreLocal Ranking factors
The Basics: Immediately Actionable Items There are two different ways to look at the top local ranking factors: what matters and what you should work on. Several of the key factors to ranking are well are out of the typical company's grasp, but here is a list of 10 recommended factors that you can work on today. The actionable factors are: Your physical address matching/listing the city where you're located. Manually verifying your ownership of the company's Google Places page. Hav...
MoreGoogle Places becomes Google Plus Local
---- Update Start ---- Google has clearly changed their strategy for the better with Google Plus Local. In this case, Google is looking to keep things authentic, so you'll need to start by setting up a 'real' Google Plus account. Then create a Google Page for your business and then click the "verify" link in the bottom right to have a post card mailed to you with a verification code. In my case, Google actually called to check on me. I could tell the agent was using Google street view to c...
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