Updates on Google Local Business Center – What would you like to see?
I have been using the Google Local Business Center (LBC) for quite some time now.
Setting up your account and adding business locations is really easy, that is, if it’s only a few.
What happens when adding multiple listings using the bulk-upload method? For me this is the preferred method. It’s lightning fast, it tells you which errors to correct (if any) and you see your business listings appearing in a jiffy. Waiting for approval (takes up 2-6 weeks or even more).
So what’s the problem? Well, we want to flavour it up a bit. Add some pictures & videos. But where is the bulk upload feature for this thing? I want to have a branded icon or my company logo added to all the 200 listings I just uploaded using the bulk-upload feature. Not possible! So the next few hours you are busy doing hard labour work, manually adding images and videos per business location using an almost antique photo upload system. Where is the usability on this one Google? It might be good to pay some attention to the local business center.
Suggestion: just add some fields to the upload form with img src destinations to be used.
Instead of adding new features, try to improve the ones that already exist. Speaking of which, when is that category updating coming in Europe?
So hereby, I’m compiling a list of features I would like to see or updated in the Local Business Center.
the list of updates:
- category update (in Europe!)
- Interface redesign / usability upgrade
- Photo upload form
- Bulk-upload photos / videos
- statistics (define impressions / views ) , integrate with Google Analytics!
- insight in (trusted) sources used to gather my information (so I can contact them if something is wrong/missing or incomplete! )
- history on status of business listing (pending, awaiting approval, flagged, awaiting next update, marked as inappropriate, etc )
Feel free to leave a comment if you think something is missing!
