Is it possible to Get Google My Business 360 Photos Added for Free ?
Yes it is. There is an incredibly simple way to add a google my business 360 photo and all it requires is downloading an app from Google to your phone.
This article will reveal to you:
- Where you can pay £500 for a 360 professional photo.
- How you can download a free version using the Street View app
- How the app gives you the ability to take 360 degree photos for free
- Where on Google My Business to upload the 360 degree photo
If you don’t know what Google My Business is, then make sure you catch-up on our awesome guide to 13 google my business tips and tricks
Video: How To Get Google My Business to show a 360 degree photo for free
Timestamps for the video above
- 0:00 What a free 360 video looks like in google my business
- 0:46 Introduction
- 1:19 Where to find the 360
- 1:35 professional costs around £500
- 2:00 Using street view app and products
- 2:40 Screenshot of street view app on phone
- 3:00 The app gives ability to take 360 degree photos for free
- 3:10 Take a photo sphere by following orange dot
- 3:30 virtual world in 360 degrees ready to upload into Google My Business
Where you can pay £500 for professional Google My Business 360 photos
When you add photos to Google My Business , it tends to bring in great local traffic and is clearly one of the things Google wants businesses to do. In more recent times they have encouraged video, as well as customers adding there own video and photos to your business.
Don’t get me wrong, virtual tours are a new and welcoming means of marketing. This is great for large businesses. But few local business have the equipment or budget to pay for a professional to add a 360 degree video.
These pro videos do increase your presence in Google’s Search Engine. But it’s difficult to produce on a low budget. Equipment can be thousands of pounds. The 360 degree photo or virtual tour area as become an elusive are, until now.
Benefits of Street View trusted pros:
- They are recipients of the Street View trusted badge
- Distinguished contributors with fifty approved and published 360 photos
- Featured in the index of for-hire professionals
- Equipped to use the Trusted brand assets for marketing purposes
- You can check them out on https://www.google.com/streetview/contacts-tools/ if you do have the marketing budget
How you can download a free version using the Street View app
Through here you’ll see that you can get a free quote which I’ve inquired for. But when you start to look at the costs of the quotes you’ll find that they’re around about £500. For some of the smaller business it makes very little sense to spend that.
Google Street View App Download
The video above talks you through the process. You will need to download the Google Street View App to your phone if you want to follow along – App Store – Google Play
So once you’ve got the app, then you’ll find then if you click into it it just brings up a map of the world. This now gives you the ability to choose here so you can use external devices which is what we saw earlier. You can also just take a photo sphere.
How the app gives you the ability to take Google My Business 360 photos for free
If you click the photo sphere button, you’ll find this screen comes out where it says to point the camera at the orange dot. Now all you do is follow this circle with the dot around your room. (You don’t need to click anything its all automated). It’s really simple, it’s intuitive but every time the orange dot moves you just follow it around and within probably about one minute you will have taken enough photos to make a virtual world of your office
Where on Google My Business to upload the 360 degree photo
To find where your 360 photo resides, click on photos. You’ll see that there is a section for 360 degree photos. There are 2 ways to add your 360 video to Google My Business.
- You can either download your video off your phone and then upload it here like you would with a video (just click the blue plus button).
- Or when you were completing the photos in the Street View app, it asks if you want to send it to your business location. Start typing in your business. With your phone GPS signal and the tour video it will locate and upload the video to the correct business automatically for you.
Conclusion
If You are looking to find out How To Get a free virtual tour video added to the 360 photo section of Google My Business, then this article is for you. we look at how to avoid paying out around £500 for a 360 professional photo. How you can upload your own 360 virtual tour in just under 1 minute using a free version of Googles Street View app. We also have seen where you can get the app from and how the Google Street View app gives you the ability to take 360 degree photos for free
Google My Business is totally free to use and if used correctly will give you local business a real boost. For those of you who need more help, then feel free to comment on the video above and I will do my best to answer your questions.