Adding photos to your profile

Fresh photos are one of the cheapest signals a local business can send. A Google Business Profile with steady, recent photo activity reads as alive. Customers see that, and so do the systems deciding what to recommend. The hard part has never been taking the photos; it is getting them off everyone’s phones and into use. The upload link fixes that part.

In your dashboard, under Media, you have a photo upload page of your own. It is a short web address plus a simple password. Anyone you give both to can open it on their phone and send photos or videos in. No app, no account.

• Open Media in your dashboard and hit “Copy link + password”. That puts both on your clipboard in one message, ready to paste into a text so nobody has to type an address off a screen.
• Give it to whoever actually takes the photos: staff, your photographer, the family member with the good eye.
• They pick photos or videos on their phone, add an optional name and note, and send. JPG, PNG, WebP, or HEIC photos and MP4, MOV, or WebM video, up to 100MB each.

Uploads land in your library immediately. You see exactly what arrived, the moment it arrives. Behind the scenes every file gets a search-friendly filename with your business name and keywords built in, and photos that can carry location data get your business location written in when we have it on file. Then the photos queue for your Google Business Profile and space out over the following weeks, at most one a day, because steady activity is worth more than a one-day flood. The drip starts once at least three are waiting; under that they stay in your library until one of our people posts one or you pick a photo’s day, so a library of two is not emptied before a post can use it. Videos stay in your library for now. Posting video to Google is not built yet.

Sometimes one photo needs to go out on a particular day: a sale, a new room, a season starting. When that happens, open it in your library and pick the day. We post it that day and everything else keeps its turn. Two photos picked for the same day cannot both have it, so the second one goes the next day and your library says which.

Your dashboard shows the tally: what is live in your library, what has been posted to Google, and what is scheduled next.

On arrival, each photo is looked at once and what it shows is recorded: which of your services is in it, how sure we are, and whether it can sit at the top of a public post. That answer is stored and never re-derived, because what a picture shows does not change.

It is what stops a lip filler photo riding on a Botox post. A photo we have not read yet is never published, and a post with no matching picture goes out without one rather than with the wrong one. How we choose which photo goes on a post is the whole account of it.