Google Rolls Out Profile Icon To Local Knowledge Panel

Jan 24, 2020 - 7:36 am 1 by
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Google announced this a while back but now it seems to be rolling out. Profile icons for your local knowledge panel is now showing up on many local knowledge panels. Google has been testing this for about a year but it should be live for most businesses.

Here is an example for my business:

Profile Icon Google Knowledge Panel3

Here are more examples from Twitter:

@somsenater:

Profile Icon Google Knowledge Panel

@anillzenginn:

Profile Icon Google Knowledge Panel2

Joy says this seems to be live now:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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