How to Post to Google My Business through Shoptoit

Our Auto Posting feature ensures you’re always telling Google they can trust you

Google has made one thing clear - businesses who actively update and maintain their Google My Business listings will be rewarded. Posting on Google My Business is one of the top things you can do to tell Google your business is real and trustworthy.

The down-side is, each post you publish to Google My Business expires after 7 days - meaning you must remember to login every week to re-post, or add new content.

Our auto-posting feature lets you post directly to your GMB listing - and lets you schedule to re-post every 7 days. Meaning you simply need to add your post once, and it will be re-posted to Google every week automatically.

In order to post to your Google my Business account through the Shoptoit interface a couple conditions must be met.

You must have claimed the free Google Starter Kit offer that is on the home page of your merchant account when you login. Click the button to redeem it and we will do the rest.

You must have set up Google my Business via the Integrations page. See instructions for doing this

Once this is all complete, you are ready to create a post.

To Create a New Post: 

1. On Left Nav: Business Content -> Posts
2. On Posts Page - Click “Add New Post”
3. Select What type of post you would like to create.
4. Fill in Post data and save (Must meet min data requirements)* 
5. Once you save the post the GMB Post Section will become available 
6. When Save is clicked you will post to GMB or get an error. 

Auto posting

To Auto post you must turn on the toggle on EACH individual post type. Your post must posted manually first. The Post will be re-posted via duplication every 7 days until it is turned off. Offer and Event posts will only be re-posted if the day to repost falls within the Start and End date of the schedule. We will email you every time there is a failure/successful post. We will send out an email if the authentication is expired at time of the post and pause all posts until you re-authenticates in merchant. 

* To post to this What's New post to GMB you are required to have:

• Name (Title)

Optionally this will post if set:

• Photo (min 400 X 400)
• URL (link for button)

To post to this Event to GMB you are required to have:

• Name (Title)
• Start and End Date (Schedule)

Optionally this will post if set:

• Description
• Photo (min 400 X 400)
• URL (link for button)