Comments on: Archived Places Forum Posts

By: Stans

Stans — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:16:24 +0000

Excellent idea, Mike! Thanks for the help as always

By: Andrew Huskinson

Andrew Huskinson — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:19:07 +0000

Thanks for saving what you could of my 10,000+ posts in the 2+ years of that incarnation of the Places Help forum.

By: Google Places Important Updates and News March 20 - Google Places Optimization and Local SEO Blog

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:02:04 +0000

[...] As I mentioned last week, the new Google Places forum is live. The OLD Google Places forum is re-directed and all the content is being removed, by Google. Mike Blumenthal, with a little help from his friends, was able to scrape the old forum to preserve years of knowledge and save it for posterity. Here is a link to the Closed Google Places Forum Archives. Here is a link to Mike’s post about it. Archived Places Forum Posts [...]

By: New Google Places Forum Released, Old Knowledge Base Gone

New Google Places Forum Released, Old Knowledge Base Gone — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:57:16 +0000

[...] Mike Blumenthal, a Local Places expert, has archived a variety of this original data that is no longer available from Google, and has placed it on his Web site for historical reference. You can read more on his March 19, 2012 post “Archived Places Forum Posts”. [...]

By: Rasmus Himmelstrup

Rasmus Himmelstrup — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:46:58 +0000

What an excellent work mike – thanks. Those old posts contain valuable information for many people.

By: Petra

Petra — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:32:18 +0000

This is really a great move to place those sources – and your time it took you to do that – at our disposal!

By: Don Campbell

Don Campbell — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:08:29 +0000

I used to refer to that forum often and there was a lot of valuable info in there. Thanks for saving what you could Mike, and for everything you do!

By: Google Places Forum Replaced, Valuable Knowledge Base Disappears | The Expand2Web Blog

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:53:11 +0000

[...] Fortunately Mike Blumenthal saved some of the old Google Places Forum posts on his website. [...]

By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 19, 2012 | tecBird

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 19, 2012 | tecBird — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:55:24 +0000

[...] Archived Places Forum Posts, Mike Blumenthal [...]

By: Phil Rozek

Phil Rozek — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:32:13 +0000

Mike, thanks for going to all that effort to back up the posts. I don’t use the GP forum all that often, but when I have, the posts/replies (many of them yours) have very much come in handy. Hats off for doing such a great (and time-intensive) thing for everyone in the big, motley GP community.