Comments on: Google Places Rolls Out Updated Bulk Upload Tool

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:08:28 +0000

I think the photo’s will come in a later iteration, as they continue to work on the ‘long term’ solution to photo’s. http://places.blumenthals.com/thread56cc.html

Mike Bunnell, I think this update (no custom fields), in conjunction with the Venice update, which allows better association between web content and local content, is meaningful. My suggestion is to get your menu on your site, with schema.org micro-data, and Google will ‘eat it up’…

Jeff, Yes, of course, isn’t a bulk upload implying multiple locations? Do you mean multiple different brands?

By: Jeff M

Jeff M — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:42:44 +0000

Has anyone ever had good luck with bulk uploads and multiple locations in one account?

By: Mike Bunnell

Mike Bunnell — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:44:41 +0000

Also appears that they’ve removed the distinction between uploading a “replace” file and an “additions” file. That’s sort of a pain — now you have to explicitly track deletes and manually remove them from the account.

By: Mike Bunnell

Mike Bunnell — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:37:11 +0000

They no longer support custom columns in the bulk file.

Can’t include c:Menu:url anymore to get your menu link to show up in the listing

Hopefully they’ll add this as a native field soon.

By: Jessie H

Jessie H — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:18:06 +0000

Thanks for the update, Mike!

I’m surprised that this new tool/platform doesn’t include a way to bulk upload photos, videos or “From the Owner,” updates. Do you think this is coming with a later iteration?

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:09:59 +0000

This tool looks like it will eliminate some of the bugs we’ve seen from the previous version. I hate to speculate, but if the old platform was based on Google Docs spreadsheet, it looks like the new platform is based Fusion Tables. This certainly is a positive step for the management of Google Places listings.