Google Changed Google My Business? Really?

Hey there, everybody. Peter Brissette here, Digital Marketing Dude, and just got a little bit of an update for you on Google. As Google really likes to keep things interesting and change things on a frequent and regular basis. We're very used to, for a while, with our Google business listings being called Google My Business. It's been called that for a number of years now. It's basically that maps listing when people do a search or someone does a search for a particular business and Google list, here's their information, their hours, their reviews, all that comes up on Google. They have now changed the name to Google Business Profile. So it's your Google Business Profile. And just a couple little updates that they've made with that. There's nothing necessarily major with this name change, but a couple of different options that they're giving you now. So let me share my screen here and we will pull this up.



So the initial way to get to your Google Business Profile, you can see now it's called the Google Business Profile Manager is business.google.com. And if you have more than one location, you'd be able to see those there. And then of course, everything is here like it has been. Nothing really new here that's included. But you've got all your information, insights, reviews, what calls have come in and so forth. Very good information here. And I'm not going to dig into this in this particular video. But just wanted to let you know that it is now called the Google Business Profile Manager. Now there's one other option that they've added here. If I just do a search on my business here, and that listing comes up right here, it actually allows me to make edits right from here. So you can see here, it's got your business on Google, how many views this month, edit profile, get more reviews, add an update.

So it just gives you a lot of different things right here in this panel. So you don't even have to go to business.google.com. You can just look up your business and be able to start to edit information about it right here. There are some new Google ad things coming out with Google My Business... see, I can't even say it correctly, Google Business Profiles. And we'll probably talk about that in a later video as well with some of those things. So that's the quick update on Google My Business, now Google Business Profile and the Google Business Profile Manager. If you haven't logged in there and checked it out in a while, you might want to log in, update some information, make sure it's complete, because that is the primary way and the first way that most people are finding your business online is through your Google Business Profile. That's it for this time. Thanks. And we'll see you next time.