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June 2017

Create a free mobile-optimized website for your business.
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April 2017

	Add full menus to your locations via the new Google My Business API. Version 3.3 of the API adds support for updating menu details like photos, descriptions, and prices. 4/26/2017 Google Developers \| Help Center
	Download bulk insights for your listings. View a spreadsheet report of insights for multiple verified listings. 4/21/2017 Help Center
	Enter URL attributes for your business to add links to more kinds of information, like a restaurant's menu. 4/12/2017 Help Center

March 2017

Enter accessibility attributes for your business using our new guidelines.
3/15/2017
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January 2017

Get location insights via the new Google My Business API. Version 3.2 of the API adds support for insights on the locations in your account.
1/10/2017
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December 2016

Insights are now available for photos. See how your photos perform compared to photos of businesses like yours.
12/15/2016
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Edit attributes for your business. Attributes include offerings like "Has Wi-Fi" and "Offers outdoor seating," which tell customers more about your business.

The next time you sign in to your account, you may have a lot of attributes to review. To easily review and edit large numbers of attributes for the first time:

In your dashboard, accept all Google updates related to attributes.
Download your locations.
Edit attributes in your spreadsheet as necessary.
Upload your updated spreadsheet to your account.

You can also review attributes from your dashboard. Once you've completed your initial review of your listings' attributes, you'll have far fewer attributes to review and edit from your dashboard during routine account maintenance.
12/14/2016
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Add your menu to a listing via the API, according to new menu guidelines for Google My Business.
12/7/2016
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November 2016

	Manage your notifications with new settings for email and mobile. Get updates on customer reviews, listing health, and more. 11/28/2016 Help Center
	Popular times now includes live visit data for eligible businesses, showing customers how busy a location is right now. 11/21/2016 Help Center
	See a list of upcoming holidays in your dashboard. Make sure that you’ve set special hours for holidays: customers who search for your business will see if you've set hours on holidays, and be shown a warning if you haven't. 11/15/2016 Help Center
	Update business info for your locations using the improved Google My Business editor. 11/7/2016 Help Center

September 2016

	Edit more with the new version of the Google My Business API. Key new features include the ability to add URL attributes (like a restaurant's menu) and subscribe to push notification for new customer reviews. 9/26/2016 Google Developers \| Help Center
	Filter Google updates by individual fields, like Address or Hours, and see detailed info about Google updates in your downloaded spreadsheet. 9/21/2016 Help Center
	Add multiple owners to individual locations or business accounts. 9/1/2016 Help Center

August 2016

	Use the new map view to see all of your locations plotted on the map. 8/31/2016 Help Center
	Accept or discard Google updates for individual fields in bulk. 8/24/2016 Help Center
	Make sure you've updated your Hours column format now that the old format is no longer supported. 8/4/2016 Help Center
	The Introduction/Description field is no longer editable in Google My Business. It only displays to users in Google+, and may still be edited there. Editing of attributes, coming soon to all Google My Business views, will be an improved way to describe your business to users on Google Search and Maps. 8/1/2016 Help Center

July 2016

	Review a summary of your spreadsheet's changes in the simplified import preview screen. 7/19/2016 Help Center
	Verify your listing by email. Email verification is only available for select businesses. 7/14/2016 Help Center
	Edit your business info directly in Search as the owner or manager of a listing. Change info like hours and your phone number without leaving the Google search results page. 7/6/2016 Help Center

June 2016

Edit your business information using the new Google My Business navigation experience.
6/30/2016
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May 2016

	The updated Terms of Service now account for multiple users as owners for the same listing. 5/23/2016 Terms of Service \| Help Center
	Improve data for your worldwide locations by following the new address guidelines and sample spreadsheet. 5/17/2016 Help Center
	The new version of the Google My Business API adds new functionality for people who manage locations at scale. Key new features include the ability to read and respond to customer reviews and provide additional attributes for locations (like whether a restaurant accepts reservations, serves brunch, or has outdoor seating). 5/5/2016 Google Developers \| Help Center
	Mark listings as permanently closed and reopen them from your card view. 5/4/2016 Help Center

April 2016

	Set special hours from your card view. 4/12/2016 Help Center
	Mark listings as permanently closed and reopen them on the Google My Business mobile app. 4/7/2016 Help Center
	Set special hours for your listings on the Google My Business mobile app. 4/7/2016 Help Center
	Enable listings for download with a new, easy-to-use process. 4/6/2016 Help Center
	Enter latitude and longitude via spreadsheet when creating locations so you don't have to drag a map marker. 4/4/2016 Help Center

March 2016

	Learn how to improve your local search ranking with new guidance from Google. 3/31/2016 Help Center
	Apply changes to multiple locations in your dashboard without needing to review Google updates. 3/8/2016
	Add logo, profile, and cover photos via spreadsheet and use new photo features for chains. 3/2/2016 Help Center
	Match your locations to existing Maps data with a new, easy-to-use tool for accounts that haven't been bulk-verified. 3/1/2016 Help Center

February 2016

Import your spreadsheet without needing to review Google updates.
2/16/2016
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January 2016

Get more from mobile with a new version of the Google My Business app for Android and iOS. The app now offers more information about the status of your locations, support for iOS 9 features, and integration with Google Photos.
1/5/2016
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December 2015

The new version of the Google My Business API gives developers more options to manage their locations at scale.
12/15/2015
Google Developers | Geo Developers Blog | Help Center

Upload only the columns you want to change. If you’re only updating particular fields for existing locations on your spreadsheet, you may now include only the columns for store code and the fields you want to change, and not include other columns on the spreadsheet at all.

If you include empty columns (columns with headings but no information beneath them) in your spreadsheet, existing information for those columns will be erased.
12/9/2015
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Close and reopen locations one at a time or in bulk for businesses with 10 or more locations.
12/2/2015
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November 2015

Set business hours more easily with new support for special days and one hours column for each day of the week. Entering your business hours is now more straightforward and aligned with the kinds of considerations you may face day-to-day in your organization.

Special hours

For days when your business has an irregular schedule, like holidays or special events, you can enter special hours in advance. If you schedule special hours, your regular hours remain in place for all other days. Learn more

Special hours can currently only be set from list view.

Spreadsheet format changes

In addition to the new special hours column, bulk upload spreadsheets now include one column for each day of the week’s regular hours and have new rules for formatting hours. To see the new hours format:

View an example spreadsheet that uses the new format.
Download a blank spreadsheet by clicking Download the template on the Import Locations page.
View all of your locations in the new spreadsheet format by clicking the Download all locations icon from the list of locations in your account.

To gain better control over locations’ hours and avoid eventual formatting errors in Google My Business Locations, you should transition to the new spreadsheet format as soon as it’s convenient for you. In the future, the old format will stop being supported.
11/2/2015
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October 2015

Learn Google My Business basics with video. Five new YouTube videos introduce the fundamentals of getting started and succeeding with your business listing online.
10/22/2015
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September 2015

	It’s now easier to navigate between Google My Business Locations and Google My Business. Users can also manage locations and Google+ pages from one place. 9/28/2015 Help Center
	Edit location information on mobile with an updated version of the Google My Business mobile app. 9/9/2015 Help Center
	Discover the reach of your page's content with improvements to Insights. 9/9/2015 Help Center

July 2015

Learn the days and times that places are most popular in search results.
7/28/2015
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June 2015

	The "Additional phones" column combines the old "Alternate Phone" and "Mobile" spreadsheet columns. 6/29/2015 Help Center
	See amenities when you search for hotels on Google, and ensure that your hotel is accurately represented to potential customers. 6/9/2015 Help Center

May 2015

Explore the new-look Locations tool, which has a gotten a makeover.
5/12/2015
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February 2015

Enter categories in two new spreadsheet columns: "Primary category" and "Additional category", which replace the "Categories" column.
2/23/2015
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October 2014

Upgraded accounts provide better tools to manage business information for verified accounts. These tools offer an improved process for updating and maintaining your locations.

Here’s a quick overview of what’s changed:

Updates go live faster.
- Most updates to go live in a day unless they're sent for review.
Increased visibility helps you quickly diagnose and fix your account.
- See if your location information is live, modified, or not live.
- See owners and managers for your locations.
Your locations are connected to Google+ and other Google features.
- Post updates to your customers and manage your location’s Google+ page.
- View the location on Search and Maps.
- See Reviews and Insights for the location on your location’s Google+ page.
- Set profile and cover photos on your location’s Google+ page.
More location management tools appear in your account.
- Add managers on individual locations or on all of your locations grouped under a business account.
- Request access to locations owned by other users.
- Get email notifications from other users who want to share management of your location information.

The upgrade also changes the process for updating your business information:

We’ve introduced new policies that make updating business information more straightforward.
- Each location has one verified owner and up to 50 owners or managers.
We’ll ask you to check in frequently to ensure that accurate information is displayed to customers.
- Check back weekly for updates from Google to your information.
- Respond to management access request emails from business associates.

10/31/2014

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