{"id":21520,"date":"2018-05-01T09:26:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T13:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=21520"},"modified":"2018-05-01T14:08:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T18:08:33","slug":"google-my-business-agency-dashboard-upgrade-api-rolling-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/01\/google-my-business-agency-dashboard-upgrade-api-rolling-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Google My Business Agency Dashboard &#038; Upgrade to API Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the LSA 18 Conference in Chicago (at friggin&#8217; 8 am*) Anita Yuen, from the Google My Business team, announced new features focusing on the small(ish) and bigger agency market.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;GMB now delivers a tailored experience for agencies and platform partners&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>3 Key investments<\/p>\n<p>Updated API &#8211; coming<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Messaging API<\/li>\n<li>Improved Search APIs across location<\/li>\n<li>Department hierarchies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: Messaging API is currently in trusted tester state.<\/p>\n<p>New Agency Dashboard &#8211;\u00a0Created with agency in mind and will be available generally in 2 to 3 weeks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Single organization account for all locations<\/li>\n<li>Users groups for teams<\/li>\n<li>Invitation Management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: <del datetime=\"2018-05-01T18:03:56+00:00\">it appears that the dashboard will only support certain high trust categories. It is not clear what an agency does with locksmiths or garage door companies.*<\/del> All verified listings can be brought into the new agency account via the invitation management. <\/p>\n<p>The invitation management allows the agency to easily send an alert to a new client and makes client opt-in much easier. Clients can request that they be included into an agency dashboard by entering the location group ID.<\/p>\n<p>It will essentially be an organizational layer above the new GMB list view dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>New Partner Program &#8211; .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Agencies advanced access<\/li>\n<li>Dedicated forum and tailored support<\/li>\n<li>Partner directory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notes:\u00a0There is some minimum size agency that wasn&#8217;t detailed but it sounded like Google looking for larger agencies and or agencies with growth trajectories.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the New Partner Program: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/gmb-partner\">bit.ly\/gmb-partner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*this erroneous note was an answer given that was related to the white listing program which is distinct from the agency dashboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the LSA 18 Conference in Chicago (at friggin&#8217; 8 am*) Anita Yuen, from the Google My Business team, announced new features focusing on the small(ish) and bigger agency market. &#8220;GMB now delivers a tailored experience for agencies and platform partners&#8221;. 3 Key investments Updated API &#8211; coming Messaging API Improved Search APIs across location &#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-21520","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\/21520","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=21520"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21528,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21520\/revisions\/21528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}