Google My Business Updates

Updates on the Google My Business data source, including new metrics, dimensions, and other features.

June 2023

2023-06-28

New metric added:

• Menu clicks

February 2023

2023-02-19

The following fields have been deprecated:

• Customer media
  • Total customer media views
• Media
  • Total media views
• Photo
  • Photo views (customers)
  • Photo views (merchant)
  • Photos uploaded (customers)
  • Photos uploaded (merchant)
  • Total photos uploaded
  • Total photo views
• Post insights
  • Post actions
  • Post views
• Search
  • Branded search impressions
  • Direct search impressions
  • Discovery search impressions
  • Total search impressions

2023-02-01

The following fields have been added:

• Bookings
• Food orders
• Messages
• Monthly search impressions
• Search terms
• Total photos uploaded
• Total search impressions
• Views on maps (Desktop)
• Views on maps (Mobile)
• Views on Search (Desktop)
• Views on Search (Mobile)

The following fields change their behavior slightly. These fields will keep returning values, but the values might be different before and after the change.

• Directions requests
• Phone calls
• Total actions
• Total views
• Views on Maps
• Views on Search
• Website visits

April 2022

2022-04-07

The following field has been deprecated, please remove it from your reporting:

• Followers

March 2022

2022-03-24

The data source has been updated to use the Business Information API.

Oct. 2021

2021-10-12 -

The following dimensions were added:

• Review creation date
• Review modification date

Jan. 2021

2021-01-19 -

Added new dimension:

• Followers

March 2020

2020-03-10 -

The following dimensions where deprecated, please remove them from your reporting:

• Duplicate location ID
• Duplicate place ID
• Duplicate location access

2020-03-17 -

The following dimensions were added:

• Review creation time
• Review modification time
• Review reply time
• Review time to respond (minutes)

Dec. 2019

2019-12-09:

New functionality added to the location selection drop-downs to support selecting location groups. Clicking the name of the group (or checking the box for it in Data Studio), will select all locations under that grouping.  This should make longer lists of locations more manageable and allow for better performance as those groups can be batch called in the API.

Jan. 2019

2019-01-22 - new fields added:

• Total review count
• Avg. overall star rating

Note that these fields are totals per location, and not affected by date range.

Dec. 2018

New metric has been added 2018-12-05:

• Branded search impressions

This change also means that "Total search impressions" also includes these values

June 2018

Added support for Location groups.

Added new dimensions:

• Account ID
• Account name
• Location description