{"id":21443,"date":"2018-03-27T12:13:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=21443"},"modified":"2018-03-27T12:13:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:13:12","slug":"google-pushes-full-release-of-new-location-dashboard-improved-q-a-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/27\/google-pushes-full-release-of-new-location-dashboard-improved-q-a-notifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Pushes Full Release of New Location Dashboard & Improved Q & A Notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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

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New Location Dashboard – click to view larger – note that the cards highligh important updates and task for the location.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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. \u00a0The email allows for instant reporting of the question if it is inappropriate.<\/p>\n

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When a question has been answered, a notification is also sent in real time.<\/p>\n

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These notifications will make managing Q & A much, much easier for single & several location businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 …<\/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-21443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t