Understanding Google My Business & Local Search

Mike Blumenthal in Google+ Local September 30, 2015

Video: Tour of the New Google My Business (GMB) Dashboard

If your account hasen’t yet been upgraded, I have just published a brief but detailed video at LocalU that details some of the features and functionality of the new Google My Business Dashboards. If you would like to see what’s coming and how it works visit the post at Local U.

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Andy Kuiper (480 comments)

September 30, 2015 at 1:50 pm

Great summation Mike – thanks for the update 🙂

Chris Desrochers (3 comments)

October 1, 2015 at 12:31 pm

Video page leads to a 404 🙁

Mike Blumenthal (3913 comments)

October 1, 2015 at 1:10 pm

@Andy
Thanks

@Chris
Thought I had fixed that but apparently not. Thanks for pointing out.

Jon Stotz (1 comments)

October 15, 2015 at 12:55 am

I’m wondering about the new format. In mine it said I was missing the store code…That wasn’t part of the old Google My Business.

Mike Blumenthal (3913 comments)

October 15, 2015 at 5:46 am

Jon in merging the two dashboards, Google has introduced the odd limits of bulk into the mix, causing these spurious messages.

For example bulk verified listings are required to have a store code, individually verified ones do not.

List view, suggests those limitations as if they apply to all listings. They do not. Just to bulk verified ones.

Those list view messages should be suppressed unless you are bulk verified and then show. They do not and it qualifies as a huge bug.

Cathie Dunklee-Donnell (64 comments)

October 19, 2015 at 11:18 am

Thank you for this, Mike. This is great and I appreciate your comment on the bulk verified listings. It is so confusing to my clients (and to me too honestly). I hope Google fixes “the huge bug”.