What’s the best Google My Business Post image size?
Here’s the correct Google My Business Post image size and other requirements at a glance:
- Minimum size of 720 pixels wide and 540 pixels tall
- JPG, PNG or GIF file format
- 4:3 Aspect ratio
- Minimum file size of 10KB
- Maximum file size of 5MB
Optimizing your image
Its important to optimize the image of your post in order to make it stand out in the local search results. Here’s a couple of tips and tricks you can apply to make your image look awesome:
- Center the subject of your image vertically and horizontally. Images with a different aspect ratio than the recommended 4:3 will get cropped. Meaning part of the image may be chopped off, or filled up with ugly black bars. Guilty as charged:
- Put the title of your post in the image, or when creating offer posts, put your coupon code in there.
- Use bright colors and bold letters. Images like that will immediately jump out in an otherwise bland search results page.
- Similarly, when using a photo as a post image, choose a high quality, well-lit photo with bright colors. Pixabay and Pexels are great sources for high quality stock photo’s which are free for commercial use.
- If your business in is located in the US, you can use Small Thanks with Google to generate personalized marketing materials, which can be used for your posts.
