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Google Pushes Full Release of New Location Dashboard & Improved Q & A Notifications

Google has broadly pushed the new location dashboard to almost all accounts. And in doing so seems to have finally provided a near real time notification for (the long missing) Questions and Answers.

The new location dashboard, using a card approach to highlight important activities and calls to action for a given listing, was first seen last December. In the past few days it has been noted on Twitter as being seen more broadly (h/t Jeffrey Magner).

New Location Dashboard – click to view larger – note that the cards highligh important updates and task for the location.

More importantly Google seems to have updated their notifications capability and are now send alerts to new questions and answers appearing on a business’s Knowledge Panel.  The email allows for instant reporting of the question if it is inappropriate.

When a question has been answered, a notification is also sent in real time.

These notifications will make managing Q & A much, much easier for single & several location businesses.