Newsletter #73- GMB Products - WSW

NEW Products Animated Image Hack & Why GMB Products is a Powerful Feature

May 2021, Whitespark Local Insider Newsletter

Products – The Powerful GMB Feature You Need to Start Using

The Products feature officially rolled out back in 2019, but 96% of businesses are still missing out on this powerful feature.In today’s Whitespark Weekly episode, Darren explains why the Products feature is an untapped goldmine and why you need to start using it on your GMB listing.

Google Scraping Website Content to Add New Services in GMB

Our Google My Business Management Team noticed an increase in automatically added services on GMB listings. The services appear live on the listings – business owners aren’t asked to review or approve additions.After examining several listings, it seems Google is scraping website content to generate these additional services.

Whitespark Weekly Recap

Have you watched all our recent Whitespark Weekly episodes? If not, here's what you've missed: 

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Quotable 

"The ability to filter out keyword types and locations is my favourite feature of Whitespark's Local Rank Tracker. It makes it easy to segment different keyword groups and share successes along with areas to improve with clients.”

Elizabeth Linder

Local Rank Tracker Customer