You can publish your offers, events, products, and services directly to Google Search and Maps through posts on Business Profile Manager.
Tips for your post
Important: Posts that include a phone number in the post description may be rejected.
- Make sure it’s high quality: Avoid misspellings, gimmicky characters, gibberish, and automated or distracting content.
- Keep your posts respectful: Refrain from obscene, profane, or offensive language, images, or videos.
- Only post links to websites you trust: Links that lead to malware, viruses, phishing, or pornographic material aren’t allowed.
- Regulated goods and services: If you offer products or services in an industry that is regulated, you’re allowed to use posts but you can’t post content related to the products themselves. Regulated industries usually include adult services, alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical products, recreational drugs, health & medical devices, gambling-related services, fireworks, weapons, and financial services.
- Keep your posts family-friendly: Refrain from posting sexually suggestive or explicit content.
Create a post from Google Maps
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app
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- Make sure you're logged in with the account you use to manage your Business Profile.
- To open your Business Profile, at the bottom right, tap Business.
- Tap Promote and tap the type of post you want to create.
- To create your post, tap the elements you want to add to your post: Photos, videos, text, events, offers, or a button to your post. Enter relevant information for each post element you choose.
- Choose to publish or preview your post.
- To publish your post: In the top right, tap Publish.
- To get a preview of your changes: Tap Preview. If you want to make more changes, in the top left tap Back
. Edit your draft until it’s ready to publish.
Check post status
After you publish your post, we may review it to ensure it meets our posts content policy.
- Live: The post shows up on Google Search and Maps for customers to find.
- Pending: The post doesn't show up on Google Search or Maps. It's either in the upload stage, the processing stage, or your profile is unverified.
- Not approved: The post doesn't show up on Google Search or Maps for customers to find. The question mark next to the status displays which content policy the post violates.
