Prepared automatically
Photos are turned the right way up, converted to a format Google accepts and resized to fit.
GBP photo scheduling
Fresh photos on every profile, week after week.
Load a set of photos once and Local Optics releases them to your Google Business Profiles over the days you choose: a different order for each location and at a different time each day.
- One upload, many locations
- Spread over days, not dumped at once
- File names written for each location
- Photo schedulesspread a set of photos over any number of days
- Many locationschosen one by one or by tag
- Search-friendly namesfiles renamed with business, city and keyword
- Photos and videoin 13 Google categories, from cover to team
Photo schedules
Set it up in a minute. It runs for weeks.
A profile that gains a photo every few days looks cared for. A schedule does that from a single batch, without anyone remembering to upload.
- Pick photos from your gallery. Upload new ones or reuse what is there. The gallery flags a file you have already uploaded.
- Choose where they go. Select locations, tags, or both, and the Google category the photos belong in.
- Choose how long. Set the start day and the number of days to spread them over. Fourteen is the default.
- Let it run. Every location receives every photo once, in its own shuffled order, at a random time between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. local time.
Options on every schedule
- Business days only. Keep uploads to Monday through Friday.
- File names. Rename each file with the business name, its city and one of your tracked keywords.
- Hands-on changes. A day-by-day table for each location lets you drag a photo to another day, or drag it out to remove it.
Suspended and disabled locations are left out, and you are told which and why.
Try it
See how a schedule spreads out.
Set the number of photos, days and locations. The strip shows one location's days; every other location gets its own shuffle of the same photos.
This schedule creates
80 uploads
One location's days
An illustration of how the app spreads photos. Day 1 is shown as a Monday. Each upload goes out at a random time between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. in the location's time zone.
The media library
Every photo and video on a profile, yours and your customers'.
Each location has a Media page showing what is live on Google, what is scheduled and what failed, including the photos customers have added.
- Upload a photo or a video and publish it now, or at a date and time in the location's time zone
- Filter by category, by state, by photo or video, and by owner or customer
- A stats panel counts photos and videos by category and by month
- Move a scheduled upload to another time, or delete media from Local Optics and Google together
- Ask to be told by email or text when a customer adds a photo
- Cover
- Profile
- Logo
- Exterior
- Interior
- Product
- At work
- Team
- Food
- Menu
- Common area
- Rooms
- Additional
One file to many locations
When the same photo or video belongs on several profiles, such as a new logo or a brand video, send it to all of them in one step.
- Choose locations or tags, as you would for a post
- Publish now, or at the same clock time in each location's time zone
- File names are still worked out for each location
Accepted files Up to 25 MB
- PhotosJPG, PNG, GIF, WebPSchedules
- VideoMP4, MOV, MKV, WebMSingle uploads
Behind the scenes
Photos arrive ready for Google.
Named for search
Leave "optimize image names" on and each file is renamed with the business name, its city and one of the location's tracked keywords.
Exported on request
Export media builds a ZIP file with a folder for each location, for use anywhere else.
Straight talk
What photo scheduling does, and what it doesn't.
What it does
- Releases a set of photos to each location over the days you choose
- Shuffles the order separately for every location
- Uploads single photos and videos now or at a set time
- Renames files for each location with its name, city and a tracked keyword
- Shows owner and customer media for every profile
- Lets you move or remove any scheduled upload
What it doesn't
- Give each location different photos. Every location in a schedule gets the same set
- Loop or refill. A schedule runs once and ends when its photos are used
- Let you set exact times or a fixed order within a schedule, or pause one
- Include video in schedules. Videos are uploaded singly
- Report how many views a photo received
- Retry a scheduled photo that fails. It is marked as failed for you to upload again
Deleting a schedule removes all of its photos, including those already live on Google. To stop a schedule but keep what has been published, remove the remaining days instead.
Questions
Photo scheduling, answered.
Lots of photos, lots of profiles?
- 602.217.0279
- support@localoptics.com
- 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. MST
Can I schedule photos to a Google Business Profile?
Yes. You can schedule a single photo or video for a date and time, or create a photo schedule that releases a set of photos to one or many locations over a number of days.
How does a photo schedule decide when to upload?
You choose the start day and the number of days. The photos are spread across those days, each location gets them in its own shuffled order, and each upload goes out at a random time between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. in the location's time zone. If there are more photos than days, some days carry more than one.
Does every location get different photos?
No. Every location in a schedule receives the same set of photos, each one once. The order and timing differ from location to location, and file names are written for each location.
What file types can I upload?
Photos as JPG, PNG, GIF or WebP and videos as MP4, MOV, MKV or WebM, up to 25 MB each. Photo schedules take photos only; videos are uploaded one at a time.
Can I change a schedule once it has started?
Yes. A table for each location shows its photos day by day. Drag a photo to another day to move it, or drag it out to remove it. Deleting the whole schedule removes all of its photos, including ones already published.
Can I see photos my customers have added?
Yes. Each location's Media page shows customer photos and videos alongside your own, and you can ask to be alerted by email or text when a customer adds one.
Give every profile something new to show.
See a photo schedule set up across your locations on a demo.