{"id":832,"date":"2018-10-19T17:47:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T17:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seosolutions.us\/blog\/?p=832"},"modified":"2018-10-19T17:47:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T17:47:13","slug":"google-word-character-limit-gmb-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/google-word-character-limit-gmb-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Switched from Word Limit to Character Limit for GMB Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, a Google My Business post had a word limit of 100-300. Now, they have changed it to 1500 characters. Although it\u2019s not a revolutionary change, because 1500 charterers roughly translate to 294-320 words, it still provides more convenience over the word limit. How?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-10-at-12.51.04-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-833 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-10-at-12.51.04-PM.png\" alt=\"GMB-Character-Limit\" width=\"191\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-10-at-12.51.04-PM.png 552w, https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-10-at-12.51.04-PM-159x300.png 159w, https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-10-at-12.51.04-PM-544x1024.png 544w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>Because counting words is not as precise as characters. You will now know exactly where to stop while writing Google My Business posts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Are there any changes in how many characters will Google display on Mobile devices without having to click \u201clearn more\u201d? According to our test, it has increased from 55 characters to 140 characters. Google has not officially said anything about this, but few others who have tested it are backing our claim.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, now you can be able to convince your customers more effectively via Google My Business posts.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/contact-us\/\">Contact us<\/a> for more insights on all the latest updates to Google My Business posts!<\/h4>\n<h4>For more in-depth insights into the most vital features of Google My Business, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/seo-solutions-2018-guide-google-my-business\/\">Download The SEO Solutions 2018 Guide to Google My Business<\/a> to learn more!<\/h4>\n<h4>Sign up for The SEO Solutions\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/visitor.r20.constantcontact.com\/manage\/optin?v=001wHyMhXJJj_5FAFNA4fFRzitmhsk30I7tlx4fbybeoMfqnwSvzkc8ssH99Tw6rmngObCzzTn9t-9z9Rpw3qdnBW_3S-KsEU3hLTQazLpythh_eVXdn1iS78baTG1_FMhJiNxqF3-fYnyx3J-WLIiNredkifkGIyPki9AgcsfVX3-WrYgOUZ_8rn8Fro64vSi_fUTp0yi1AcU%3D\">Newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to read up on all the latest updates!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, a Google My Business post had a word limit of 100-300. Now, they have changed it to 1500 characters. Although it\u2019s not a revolutionary change, because 1500 charterers roughly translate to 294-320 words, it still provides more convenience over the word limit. How? Because counting words is not as precise as characters. You will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[132,1],"tags":[109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}