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Google My Business – Goodbye Google Places

June 12, 2014 by Jan Kearney

Goodbye Google Places, Hello Google My Business

Contents

  • Hello Google My Business
  • What is Google My Business?
  • What My Business Isn’t
  • I Love The Change!
  • Related Posts

Hello Google My Business

Google announced yesterday the global rollout of Google My Business. The official UK announcement came this morning over on the Google UK for Business Page.

Google My Business should be hitting the dashboard in 236 regions and 65 languages as we speak.  If you don’t have it right now, it won’t be long arriving!

What is Google My Business?

Google has been making a pigs ear of local for the last 2 years.  A nightmare for small businesses, Local has been assigned a special place in hell for many.

Google My Business FINALLY unifies Local under 1 dashboard making it easier for small businesses to take advantage of local search, Maps, reviews and Plus all in one place.   Rolling out at the same time is the Android app (now available in the Android store).  The iOS app will be available as soon as iTunes approves it.

My Business:

  • fully integrates Google Plus Local and Google Places
  • provides a single portal for accessing Google SMB tool
  • provides a single way of editing Plus Pages of all types

What My Business Isn’t

Google My Business focuses on single location businesses.  Multi-location businesses wanting bulk uploads are still in limbo for now.  Brands wanting to manage several Plus Pages still have no way of doing so.

My Business is a huge change on the user back end but front facing data like Pages, Maps, Search remain the same.

I Love The Change!

You can probably tell I love this long awaited change!

I’ll be updating my Google Local downloads and setup videos to reflect the My Business changes over the next day or two. Pop your name and email in the boxes below to be notified when they’re ready.

Access Google My Business at http://www.google.com/business

 

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Filed Under: Google, Google Plus Tagged With: google local, Google My Business, google places, google places changes, Google Plus for business

About Jan Kearney

I believe that every business, no matter how small or how local can use the power of the web to gain more customers. I offer no bull coaching and mentoring so small business owners can strategically put the web to work for their business. I've been called a "compass" and a "navigator" and probably a few more names that aren't suitable for a profile!
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Comments

  1. Misty Spears says

    June 12, 2014 at 8:41 pm

    Very cool and interesting. I need to go read up more on what exactly this could do for me. Thanks for sharing the announcement, I didn’t hear about this anywhere today.

    • Jan Kearney says

      June 12, 2014 at 10:32 pm

      You’re welcome Misty 🙂

  2. Victoria Virgo says

    June 13, 2014 at 12:19 am

    This is something I should link up with. You can never have too many connections in social media land right?

    • Jan Kearney says

      June 14, 2014 at 12:29 pm

      Google My Business is available for all Pages – and thankfully tidies up local too. It’s the place to be Victoria 🙂

Meet Jan Kearney

I believe that every business, no matter how small or how local can use the power of the web to gain more customers. I offer no bull coaching and mentoring so small business owners can strategically put the web to work for their business. I've been called a "compass" and a "navigator" and probably a few more names that aren't suitable for a profile!
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