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In early September, @BenFisher posted on LinkedIn that he had been given the option to verify a Business Profile by phone, email and photo!
Google is pretty good about keeping the GBP Help Center documents current, but this new photo option still hasn’t appeared on “Verify your business on Google”, making me think it’s probably a test.
Just last week, I was given the option of GBP photo verification for the first time. Interestingly, photo verification was the only choice. Google didn’t even give me video verification, the go-to method for the last several years, as an option. So, if this is a test, they sure seem to be leaning into it!
Google must be confident that they’re going to be able to sort the AI images uploaded by Maps spammers from real photos uploaded by merchants with genuine businesses.
As an agency worker, I love the idea of being able to verify a profile for a client!
Questions:
Google is pretty good about keeping the GBP Help Center documents current, but this new photo option still hasn’t appeared on “Verify your business on Google”, making me think it’s probably a test.
Just last week, I was given the option of GBP photo verification for the first time. Interestingly, photo verification was the only choice. Google didn’t even give me video verification, the go-to method for the last several years, as an option. So, if this is a test, they sure seem to be leaning into it!
Google must be confident that they’re going to be able to sort the AI images uploaded by Maps spammers from real photos uploaded by merchants with genuine businesses.
As an agency worker, I love the idea of being able to verify a profile for a client!
Questions:
- Has anyone else seen this?
- Did you try it? (I haven't had a chance to test it yet.)
- If so, did it work? Did it fail? Were you asked to follow up with a second type of verification?
