Mike Blumenthal

I received this feedback from Joel Headley, Consumer Operations at Google, via Google Reader in answer to some of my questions about the newly announced Bulk Upload Whitelisting for the local business center: MB: Will the entry (submitted via the whitelisted upload) still be editable via community edit? Joel: No. MB: Will the stats of …

Here is the content of the Bulk Upload Whitelist Request form: **** Get Verified in Google Maps Local Business Center * Required field Generally, the best way to verify that you own a business is by receiving a phone call or postcard with a PIN. However, we understand this gets tricky if you have say, …

Update: Here is the link to the whitelist request form: http://maps.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=feeds_verify David Mihm reports from the LSS Q&A Session that Google is rolling out the Bulk Upload Whitelist reported here in early June and confirmed by Google several weeks ago. From David Mihm’s Local Search blog: Now onto the good stuff. Ari Bezman, the product …