Google Business Profiles has a bug that prevents you from inviting a new owner to your Business Profile listing. You can invite new managers, but inviting new owners does not currently work (at least when I wrote this story).

This issue was posted in the Local Search Forums earlier this week where seaniaaa wrote, that “both outgoing, when we are adding clients to their GBP, and incoming, when new clients are adding us to their GBP, we are all unable to select “Owner” access level when sending invites. It only lets you pick the “Manager” access level. This just started happening over the last couple of days. Multiple clients. Chrome is fully up to date. You click to select Owner and it just doesn’t do anything. No error message or warnings at all.”

Supposedly this is a widespread issue impacting anyone trying to add a new owner to their business profiles.

To add new owners or managers to your Google Business Profile, follow these steps:

• Go to your Business Profile.
• Click Menu Menu and then Business Profile settings and then Managers.
• At the top left, click Add Invite new users.
• Enter a name or email address.
• Under “Access,” choose Owner or Manager.
• Click Invite.

I am hoping by the time this story goes out, the issue will be resolved.

Forum discussion at Local Search Forums.

Note: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today, I am currently offline for Shavout.

The other day, I reported that Google was testing replacing the 3D label with a 360 label. Well, I may have been wrong because 360 and 3D may be different and not the same. We are now seeing Google show both 3D and 3560 labels on product listings in the same product grid, which means to me, they are different.

Khushal Bherwani spotted this and posted a screenshot of this on Twitter – here it is, showing both the 3D and 360 label on the product image:

So maybe 3D is the augmented reality version where 360 just lets you see the image itself in a 360 degree view?

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Note: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today, I am currently offline for Shavout.

The other day, I reported that Microsoft was sending invites to relaunch and expand Microsoft pubCenter, Microsoft’s AdSense alternative. So I signed up and was given access the other day and I wanted to share some screenshots of the screens.

The first thing you get is an email saying “You’ve been selected from the waitlist.” You then click over from the email to sign up with their form. After you sign up, you immediately have access to the new pubCenter at next.pubcenter.microsoft.com as opposed to the old one at pubcenter.microsoft.com. So I guess this new version is named Microsoft pubCenter Next?

You are asked to set up your payment settings, which I did not do yet, but you can imagine that it asks for your bank details, tax ID and so forth. Here is a screenshot of the welcome screen:

I then entered my business information, which I did not screenshot for you.

After that, I went to set up my ad unit. I was asked to pick a layout, a template and an ad unit type (there is only one offered but “search” and “other” are coming soon). Then I was able to copy and paste the code snippet into my site.

Here are those screenshots:

What is interesting is that when you click on the reports within pubCenter next, I guess that is what they are calling it? You are taken to a notice that says “Reports aren’t available in the latest version of pubCenter yet. To access reports through the previous version, click Go to reports.”

You are able to control ad units, sites that show your ads, block ads, see reports and manage your account.

I am not sure when my pending status will be removed but below this paragraph I’ll embed an ad, when the ad shows, that means it is active:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Note: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today, I am currently offline for Shavout.