Google Maps App Lets Users Add A New Business To The Map
Google integrates Google Map Maker directly into the Google Maps iOS App. This allows any user to quickly add a missing business to Google Maps.
Barry Schwartz on November 4, 2015 at 4:53 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
A new version of the iOS Google Maps app was just released, and one of the two new features documented is the ability for the user to “easily add new and missing businesses from the sidebar.”
Indeed, a user who is logged into the app can easily add a new business from the sidebar. Just click the menu at the top left of the Google Maps app, and you will see a link toward the bottom of the menu to “Add a missing business.”
Clicking on that will give you a form to complete to submit the business to Google for review and submission to Google Map Maker. Here is that form:
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.