Today we're excited to announce a new feature on Google Maps that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML. And once you embed the map, it has all the same functionality of the Google Maps you know and love; it's clickable, draggable, and zoomable.

Adding a map to your website or blog is now as easy as embedding a YouTube video. No programming skills are required, and there's no need to sign up for a Maps API key. All it takes is three simple steps:

1. Go to Google Maps and pull up the map you want to embed. It can be a location, a business, a set of driving directions, search results, or a map you've created using our map-making tools.



2. Then click "Link to this page" in the top right-hand corner. Copy the text that you see in the second box.



3. Paste that text into your blog editor or into the HTML of your webpage. We use an <iframe> so it works on most blog hosting sites like Blogger.



Voila! The map appears on your blog.

For example, you could be writing a blog post about your recent trip to Hawaii...


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Or you could be a business owner adding a map of your location to your website...


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Or you could be sharing your photos of the San Francisco Zoo...


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