Google My Business Adds New Service Options For Some Industries

Aug 27, 2019 - 7:31 am 0 by
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Joy Hawkins posted in the Local Search Forums that Google has added, for some industries, new service options that these businesses can choose. She posted about plumbers, music schools, piano instructors, and more. Other local SEOs are seeing this as well.

Joy wrote "I'm now seeing options in the Google My Business dashboard for certain industries. Under the Services tab, there are now services listed that you can select, very similar to attributes:"

Here is one of many screen shots she shared in the thread:

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This is a good thing for local businesses and searchers.

Forum discussion at Local Search Forum.

 

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