{"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 &#038; Improved Q &#038; A Notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<p>The new location dashboard, using a card approach to highlight important activities and calls to action for a given listing, was <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/11\/google-updates-gmb-home-view-for-businesses\/\">first seen<\/a> last December. In the past few days it has been noted on Twitter as being seen more broadly (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffreymagner\/status\/978358942786052096\">Jeffrey Magner<\/a>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21445\" style=\"width: 1329px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-11.59.37.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21445 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-11.59.37.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1329\" height=\"1086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-11.59.37.png 1329w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-11.59.37-245x200.png 245w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-11.59.37-520x425.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-11.59.37-768x628.png 768w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-11.59.37-1024x837.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1329px) 100vw, 1329px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Location Dashboard &#8211; click to view larger &#8211; note that the cards highligh important updates and task for the location.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More importantly Google seems to have updated their notifications capability and are now send alerts to new questions and answers appearing on a business&#8217;s Knowledge Panel. \u00a0The email allows for instant reporting of the question if it is inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-12.06.09.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21446\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-12.06.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-12.06.09.png 560w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-12.06.09-143x200.png 143w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-12.06.09-428x600.png 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a question has been answered, a notification is also sent in real time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-12.07.17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21448\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-12.07.17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-12.07.17.png 616w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-12.07.17-161x200.png 161w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-27-12.07.17-484x600.png 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These notifications will make managing Q &amp; A much, much easier for single &amp; several location businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230;<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21443","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=21443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21450,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21443\/revisions\/21450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}