Google Your Business

Whether you are collecting points, boosting your view counts, or just sharing something beautiful, Local Guides love to add photos to Google Maps. After 10+ years in the photo industry I’m happy to be a part of Local Guides and have the opportunity to share my tips on creating better photo content.     First, we’ll kick it off with some tips on how to shoot the best photos possible.  No matter what kind of camera you have, you can use these tips and tricks to create more engaging images.   Extreme Camera Angles Bird’s eye view and worm’s eye view aren’t great when you’re capturing a building’s exterior or interior.  We want to see the entire building rather than tight crops and odd angles.       However, if you’re shooting food or details of places/things, feel free to play with angles! Horizontal shots are best but vertical is acceptable if the image looks just as good cropped horizontally.   There should be an obvious point of interest...

  One of the best tools that come with a Google My Business (GMB) listing is Insights. GMB Insights give you a behind the scenes look at how your customers interact with your GMB listings. There is a vast amount of data to be found within Insights, here’s a look at what the data means, how to use Google Insights, and the limitations that come with GMB Insights.Insights can also be viewed within the Google My Business mobile app . What are Google My Business Insights? “Google My Business Insights focuses on how customers find your listing on Search and Maps, and what they do after they find it.” – Google. The Insights panel found within your GMB dashboard provides businesses owners with customer engagement data derived from their GMB listing. This data includes information like: How many views your listing had. How and where customers find your listings. The actions customers take on your listings. And other interactions customers have with your GMB listing. How customers search f...