Google Adds Posts Capability to My Business Listings

[engine]

Google has added the ability to post messages to My Business listings. Probably ideal for small, local business wanting to keep in touch with their local audience.

My Business verified users can posts messages from Android, Desktop, or iOS.

Here where to post [business.google.com...]
Here's how to sign up for a My Business account [google.com...]

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 7:45 pm (utc) on Jun 23, 2017]
[edit reason] fixed typo [/edit]

[keyplyr]

Nice, but I still want users to visit my site and not stay on Google.

Google has a way of making it sound like they're giving us things, when in the big picture everything they do is to keep users engaged with Google.

[seoskunk]

keyplyr - have you not ever heard of posting teasers of content, this would be an ideal place to do it, a short engaging post linking to more detail on your site. Simple Problem Solved !

[keyplyr]

@seoskunk - thanks, been doing that for years. I snip articles and post with associated OG images for my main landing pages. That hasn't changed.

I think you missed my point. I get good traffic from my business listings at Google, Bing and a few weekly from Yandex's business listing... because they don't stay on the SE page, they click through to my sites.

[seoskunk]

Ah, I see your point, I think Google is just desperate to create any type of social network and business listings is their latest idea, especially since LinkedIn is now Microsoft owned. I don't see Linkedin being mismanaged in the same way Murdoch did to Myspace so I think it's safe for a while to just ignore this stuff and enjoy the clickthrough benefit you get already.

[seoskunk]

Isn't it funny how Google bang on about originality and their latest released products are, "Jobs" that have been done to death online, and now "Business Social" that Linkedin leads the market in. How can they lecture on originality and "what does this offer that other don't" whilst replicating themselves?