Recent content by WilliamGMBE

Thank you for reaching out. This is great :)

Not sure if everyone has noticed this, but thought will share. Recently we have been seeing 'Service Establishment' showing up as a 'category' that Google Maps adds for Service Area Businesses. This is not something the business owner adds, but something added by default for service area...

We are trying to run a very detailed experiment to see if category dilution(more categories-reduction in ranking) is a real thing or not. Many companies (and people) swears it is a real thing, while many experiment shows the opposite. So for this purpose we are trying to run a very detailed...

I think I am wrong here. With AI mode, they are launching one after the other and not using the same experience for every language: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/08/googles-ai-mode-adds-5-new-languages-including-hindi-japanese-and-korean/

Interesting. Ya, seems like it. I tried putting the url parameter hl=fr-CA for French Canadian and got the message below. I am guessing though since AI uses memory for languages, maybe it will respond in French after some usages. That is the approach other LLM's seems to be using.

Great analysis. Didnt know there was so many types of AI Overviews for local. Ya, search behavior is evolving fast. Have you tried agentic mode on ChatGPT? I find myself using agentic mode in ChatGPT a lot for deep local search. Like for example, planning to get together for Thankgiving...

'AI Mode' launched in Canada recently. You should be getting it unless you are in a Google Workspace account. :)

Google Maps ranking prioritizes businesses that are open over once that are closed. In your case since you are 24 hours business, during working hours you have more competition and that could be why you are ranking lower. So, to showcase, these are the business that showed up for me when I...

@cleverlyengaged Can think of a couple of ways you can do this. One of them. Longer way: Logic: You can just search on google maps for 'Gas Station' at this address, then export it into google sheet and filter it. How: Here are the steps. Step1: You can use query parameter with Google Maps...

Wanted to get some feedback. For people who are using AI for optimizing their GMB, do you use any MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers in your present workflow? At present was playing with the idea of providing GMB Category and related Category as MCP, so was wondering if anyone will have...

We have launched a new tool called Local Scan to the GMBEverywhere.com tool. Now when you go to Google Map search result tool, you will see a Local Scan button, clicking which will compare the GMB for these parameters: - Reviews - Categories - Services - Attributes - Business hours - Other...

@ Thank you @JeffClevelandTN for the kind words. Yes, micro intent is a good way to think about it. More like an answer engines than a search engines. Yes, if we are asking about AI Overview alone, there is some repeatability. Like, this is the best paper we have seen about this and this is...

@JeffClevelandTN As far as I know google does not differentiate the clicks from AI Overview/AI Mode and others in the data they provide. Neither is it in the API yet. So, it is something difficult to build product like this since solid underlying data is not there. Another major issue with this...

What do you think of the categories suggested in the screenshot below? For the information you provided, these are some of the suggested categories. The number in the dark bubble is total world wide search per month for the terms. PS: This is from GMBEverywhere tool. Generally we have seen...

@SabrinaB You should consider relevance and traffic availability here. What you select as a primary category has a big influence on ranking, so best to have the most relevant and specific ones. On the other hand, you dont want to select a primary category which does not has a lot of search...