Feature
Photo publishing
Photos of real work are the one part of a profile only you can supply. This makes supplying them easy, with a link your crew can open on a phone, and then puts them on your profile steadily rather than all at once.
- Sent in by
- A phone upload link, or drag-and-drop in the app
- Published
- On three days a week, one photo a day at most
- Order
- Least-used photo first
- Running low
- A task when fewer than five are left
- Approval
- Each photo waits by default
What it does
Each business gets its own upload link. Open it on a phone, choose photos, and if you like say what the job was and where. The link can be protected with an access code, and you can email the link and code to yourself to pass on to your crew.
Back at the office, the Images screen takes PNG, JPG and WEBP files by drag-and-drop. Everything uploaded, from either place, goes into one library for the business.
From that library, photos are published to your Google profile on three set days a week, never more than one on the same day, starting with the ones used least. The same library supplies the pictures for your posts, so a photo of a finished job can also become a post about that job.
Why it matters
Customers look at the photos before they call. Recent pictures of real jobs show that the business is working and show the standard of the work in a way a description never can.
Photos also go stale. Forty uploaded in one afternoon and nothing for a year leaves the profile looking current for about a week. A few a week, every week, keeps it looking like somebody's there.
How it works
Photos come in
Your crew uses the upload link from a phone on the job, or someone drags files into the Images screen back at the office.
Details come with them
If whoever uploaded added the job and the place, those details stay with the photo and are used when it appears in a post.
They wait for approval
By default each photo waits for approval before it goes to your profile.
They go out steadily
On three days each week, one photo is published to your profile, least-used first.
You're told when it runs low
When fewer than five unused photos are left, a task appears asking for more.
What you do
Take the photos. It's the one part of this nobody can do for you: before and after, the team on site, the finished job. Ordinary phone pictures are fine.
Share the upload link with whoever's on the job, and send a fresh batch when the 'Send more photos' task appears.
Where it stops
- It publishes the photo itself. The captions it drafts and the names it gives your files aren't sent to Google.
- It doesn't add GPS location data to your photos.
- It doesn't check photos for quality or catch duplicates. Anything uploaded can be published, so choose what you send.
- It doesn't pull photos in from Google Drive or other apps yet.
- It never generates images and never uses stock photography.
Questions about photo publishing
Does my crew need a login to send photos?
No. The upload link opens a simple page on any phone. You can protect it with an access code, which opens that page and nothing else.
How many photos should I send?
More than you'd think, and regularly. At one photo on three days a week, a batch of thirty lasts about ten weeks. When you're down to your last few you'll be asked for more.
Will it publish a photo I haven't approved?
Not by default. Each photo waits for approval before it goes to your profile.
Can I choose which photo goes next?
The order is set for you: the photo used least goes next, so the whole library gets seen before anything repeats.
Will photos help my ranking?
Photos make a profile more complete and give customers a reason to choose you, and the optimization score counts them. What they won't do is carry a secret location signal; nothing here claims they do.
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