Data Studio Connector for GMB
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Reporting to clients on your SEO efforts and how consumers are interacting with the Google My Business profile can now sit beside your Google Analytics, Google Ads or any other source in Data Studio.
Understanding how you are performing at a local level is an integral part of your digital strategy. Get GMB Posts, Driving Direction, Searches, Photos, Map and Phone Call data.
The connector fetches data from your GMB account and uses Location Groups for the data source. If you have multiple locations this makes displaying reports for each location in a single chart or table very easy.
Fetch data from your Google My Business locations and create a report in minutes
Reports can aggregate data from multiple locations or a single location with filters
Get an overview of how your GMB location is performing with a high level summary
Track your progress across a range of metrics with time comparisons
If you take Local SEO seriously and need all your GMB data
Create reports on any number of locations, with simple pricing and fast loading of data.
Free vs Data Warehouse Comparison
Free
Price
Affordable access to your GMB data at any scale
FREE
Data Fields
Additional fields are available for posts, Q&A, location info and more
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Maximum Locations
Free reports are limited to 20 locations per Location Group
20
Speed
Data fetching is accelerated from the data warehouse as its pre-processed
Slow
Timezone
Timezone adjustment will ensure data matches the GMB dashboard
UTC
Location Filtering
Data Warehouses allows you to separate data with user access control
Data Warehouse
Price
Affordable access to your GMB data at any scale
$1 per Location
Data Fields
Additional fields are available for posts, Q&A, location info and more
93
Maximum Locations
Free reports are limited to 20 locations per Location Group
Unlimited
Speed
Data fetching is accelerated from the data warehouse as its pre-processed
Fast
Timezone
Timezone adjustment will ensure data matches the GMB dashboard
Localised
Location Filtering
Data Warehouses allows you to separate data with user access control
NOTE: Access to the Data Warehouse requires an active Jepto plan.
Get access to additional fields, complete historic data, faster loading reports and store everything in your own hosted database.
$1 per location per month with any Plan.
The report creation process in Data Studio is the same as any other connector
Full flexibility and pay only for the locations you want to create reports for.
Scalable to any number of locations, with super fast loading regardless of the time frame
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Local Post
Location
Location Insight
Media
Media Customer
Question
Review
1. Is it really free?
Yes! We built the connector because we were experimenting with Google My Business as a data source for our App and decided that we would offer it for free, forever. Absolutely no catch. We don't use your data for any purposes, we only hope that you might browse around and see if our App would be of interest to you.
2. How do I filter data from a single location?
If you have multiple locations, you have several options for filtering data for your reports. For example, you could create a filter based on the Location Name or Store Code for a static report. Alternatively you can create a filter control if you want the report to be dynamic.
If your GMB account has location groups, there is a checkbox in the settings to allow you to edit the location group from inside the report, referred to as business accounts, and is in the parameters section inside the report.
3. Do you have other Data Studio connectors?
We only have the two connectors, reviews and insights. Our current focus is building our App and no other connectors are currently planned.
4. Why is the connector asking me for edit permissions?
In short, there is only one permission scope. For us to access your Google My Business data we use the API (Application Programming Interface) which is considered private, as a formal application needs to be submitted before you can gain access to the API. Because of this, Google has only one permission setting for accessing data via the API which is why edit/delete access is requested. The connector only reads information and absolutely no editing or deleting requests will be made to your account.
5. Why are there separate connectors for reviews and Insights?
When we originally built the GMB Insights connector we didn't cater for reviews and trying to make both work together was going to compromise the existing connector. Therefore, we built the review connector separately due to popular demand and now you have the choice of using one or the other.
6. What's the difference between the free connector and the Data Warehouse?
When we first released the Data Studio connector we wanted to make it free for everyone. For this reason we chose to fetch data directly from GMB without storing it. The ramifications of this is that the connector can be slow and suffer from intermittent errors if lots of users are creating reports at the same. This may be acceptable for some users, however we're able to offer far more data points and increase the speed dramatically if we store the data. However Instead of storing the data on our own servers, the data pipelines you setup push data to your own hosted account so if you decide to stop paying you will always own your data.