- Seo Tips: How To Use 360 Degree Photos On Google My Business Search
- Seo Tips: How To Use 360 Degree Photos On Google My Business Listing
- Seo Tips: How To Use 360 Degree Photos On Google My Business Account
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Seo Tips: How To Use 360 Degree Photos On Google My Business Search
Seo Tips: How To Use 360 Degree Photos On Google My Business Listing
Learn how to use Google My Business to easily manage your business listing info, reviews, photos and location on Google search, Google Maps and local search. Google My Business is one of the most powerful tools available to help you rank higher in local search results and reach more customers. On the home page, click “Photos” to begin. On the Photos bar, click “360”, which will be the location of all of your 360-degree shots for your business. There are also a myriad of image and video options that you can use as well, such as interior and exterior images, and even images of your team at work.
Frank Taylor reporting from New Zealand:
Google has upgraded the Photos layer in Google Earth to not only include the millions of geo-tagged photos from Panoramio, but also to include 360 degree panoramas from 360cities.net. The 360 photos were previously viewable in Google Earth if you opened the Gallery layer folder and turned on the 360Cities layer. But, now everyone can find the panoramas with the default Photos layer. The regular 2D photos still appear as little blue icons as you zoom into a place. Now, if 360 panorama photos are available for that place, you will also see little red square icons as well. Click on a red icon and you’re presented with a 2D view of that location in the pop-up window and you can click the photo to fly into the 360 panorama right in Google Earth.
I’m a big fan of 360 panoramas which give you a full immersive experience of a photo location – you can look in all directions, including up and down. During our first year of the Tahina Expedition I have produced many 360 panoramas of places in the Caribbean, the Panama Canal, Galapagos, the French Marquesas, Bora Bora, Tonga, and more (see recent 360s of Tonga, see all of the panoramas for Tahina Expedition). Now everyone can find 360 photos like these, and those done by thousands of photographers around the world right in the Photos layer.
I’m thrilled to see 360 panoramas, and 360Cities.net, get more visibility. Jeffrey Martin, who started 360Cities, says that there are more than 60 thousand 360 images in the new Google Earth layer. Congratulations Jeffrey! Kudos to Google for making these photos more accessible! I hope they’ll take the next step and add them to the Photos layer in Google Maps as well.
See LatLong blog post about the layer changes.
Seo Tips: How To Use 360 Degree Photos On Google My Business Account
About Mickey Mellen
Mickey has been using Google Earth since it was released in 2005, and has created a variety of geo-related sites including Google Earth Hacks. He runs a web design firm in Marietta, GA, where he lives with his wife and two kids.
Let's pretend for a second you have a restaurant and you want to make sure your customers are able to find you on Google.
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You would definitely want some great photos of your storefront, food and the inside of the dining area atmosphere. But if you had the 360 virtual tour as well, the attraction, interaction and time spent could all DOUBLE. People WILL spend time walking around your place virtually versus just skimming over still pictures and details. The difference is that it gives a real look at a your business and well, honestly it's just kinda fun to do!
As your prospects tour your restaurant business virtually, the views are interpreted by google as positive organic interaction with your listing. This helps with higher ranking on Google. So, doubling-down on the type of photo content you are allowed on Google should be a no-brainer.
To most people the virtual world still packs a major wow factor. Any customer looking at your listing will genuinely enjoy the experience. Plus, it lets your customer know that you are up to date with current technology and will likely be around to serve them for a while.