Google My Business Agency Migration Tool Now Live


GMB for Agencies & Platforms In June we covered the official launch of the Google My Business (GMB) Agency Dashboard, which was created to help agencies better organize and manage a large number of listings. However, it has been lacking from the start a way to get listings from a large number of separate accounts all merged into one. Now Google has launched a tool migration tool to fix this.

According to GMB Community Manager, Kara...

GMB Support says... When we launched the agency dashboard in June, some agencies struggled to smoothly migrate listings to organization accounts. Thanks to that feedback, we've now launched a new tool to help streamline the process of transferring listings to organization accounts! Learn more in our Help Center article: https://support.google.com/business/answer/9118250
Kara, Community Manager, Google My Business
  • Actionable Strategy --> It's up to you to decide if you want to shift over completely to the GMB Agency dashboard or not. So far the migration of locations has been the real stopping point for many people. If you do decide to shift over then Google is giving you two ways to transfer locations from a Personal account over to an Agency account.

    1. Assisted migration - This is the new option that Google rolled out to encourage people to shift over to the Agency side of Google My Business. It's what we suggest you use if you have a lot of locations to move over and want Google to do it for you in a bulk transfer. To request the assisted move log into your GMB Agency account, go to the Overview tab, click the Got existing locations to transfer?

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