"Businesses like yours are posting!"

[CraigJMount]

Howdy gang,

When did Google bring this feature into the Google My Business dashboard mix? Does anyone know?

 

[Tim Colling]

I have not seen that before. We create posts for all of our clients though. Was that on the dashboard for a company that was not currently creating posts?

 

[JoyHawkins]

It looks like the first time people spotted this was back in September 2018. Somehow I missed putting it on my timeline so I'll update that

 

[CraigJMount]

I have not seen that before. We create posts for all of our clients though. Was that on the dashboard for a company that was not currently creating posts?

That is a great question. It was. This company had not posted prior.

 

[Tim Colling]

That is a great question. It was. This company had not posted prior.

I thought so. That's probably Google's way of trying to get the company to "get with it and start posting".

 

[Yan Gilbert]

I've seen that before as well. It seems an effective FOMO tactic.

 

[Tim Colling]

FOMO tactic indeed, @Yan Gilbert. Thanks, I had forgotten that phrase/FLA.

 

[AndySimpson]

It looks like the first time people spotted this was back in September 2018. Somehow I missed putting it on my timeline so I'll update that

Back in July...

See what your "local" competition are posting from within your GMB dashboard

 

[JoyHawkins]

Crap, I'll credit you instead Andy!

 

[razorclicks]

I wonder if we can glean any SEO insights from the other businesses that Google is considering "like yours". Some of them are on target, but others are laughable!

 

[Tim Colling]

I wonder if we can glean any SEO insights from the other businesses that Google is considering "like yours". Some of them are on target, but others are laughable!

Great point, @razorclicks !

 

[AndySimpson]

I wonder if we can glean any SEO insights from the other businesses that Google is considering "like yours". Some of them are on target, but others are laughable!

I just use it as part of my competitor analysis I do for each client and see what they are posting i.e. is it similar to what my client is posting, do they post on a regular basis, are our posts better, etc.

 

[BisnarChase]

Been seeing these for at least 6 months. Each time I post one I see that right below and thought it was a nice feature to give more ideas on what law firms were using theirs for. Not surprisingly most of them were terrible looking ads rather than company announcements or product/service driven

 

[Zhivko]

I confirm that this shows on all profiles I manage which DO NOT do posts. The niche doesn't seem to matter.