{"id":18957,"date":"2016-01-11T11:57:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=18957"},"modified":"2017-07-08T13:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T17:02:31","slug":"google-implements-direct-knowledge-panel-editing-on-desktop-and-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/11\/google-implements-direct-knowledge-panel-editing-on-desktop-and-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Implements Direct Knowledge Panel Editing on Desktop and Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has confirmed that they are\u00a0now allowing a business to directly edit their business information via the Knowledge Panel and the Local Finder on the desktop and mobile WITHOUT visiting the Google My Business Dashboard.<\/p>\n

Prya Chandra reported<\/a> earlier today on G+ a new Knowledge Panel interface that allows direct editing of a local listing to correct errors in the local information.<\/p>\n

However, when you are logged into Google on the desktop with an account\u00a0that has the ownership or management of the listing, this edit mode allows for direct updating of your business information without needing to go the Google My Business Dashboard. \u00a0The information will flow, in essentially real time, back to the dashboard and out the listing wherever it might show.<\/p>\n

However, a listing owner is still unable to edit things like menu or booking links that frequently go awry.<\/p>\n

This was first reported<\/a>\u00a0as a future feature by Barry Scwartz at SeoRoundtable\u00a0based on a comment by Gary Illyes at State of Search in mid November.<\/p>\n

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When you click on suggest an edit you are presented with a direct edit screen of basic information for a business.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Screenshot
If you are logged in as a manager or owner of the listing edits get approved immiediately<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Screenshot
The edits show up in real time in the Google My Business Dashboard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Editing is also allowed in the mobile browser interface. Note that the hour change appeared there immediately as well<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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upon completion of the KP edit I received this confirmation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This new edit capability is available in the Knowledge Panel and the Local Finder on the desktop AND mobile but is not available via Google Maps. One assumes that this same interface will make its way into Google Maps desktop and mobile in the near future.<\/p>\n

I am curious to know if this has rolled out internationally. If you live in Canada, Europe, Australia please let me know. I assume that it has.<\/p>\n

The real question about this change is what is the future of the Google My Business Dashboard? With its current limited functionality businesses will have even less motivation to visit it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google has confirmed that they are\u00a0now allowing a business to directly edit their business information via the Knowledge Panel and the Local Finder on the desktop and mobile WITHOUT visiting the Google My Business Dashboard. Prya Chandra reported earlier today on G+ a new Knowledge Panel interface that allows direct editing of a local listing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18957"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20936,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957\/revisions\/20936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}