Mike Blumenthal

Executive summary: A bug fix again, a new bug and a new, old bug reappears. 2 Steps backwards and 1 step forward for the second time. Progress is hard to come by. The details: 1- 00:24 A Bug fix- The analytics are once again visible in the dashboard. The is a new fix of the …

Google For Business Community Manager Jade W has just posted this sticky note in the forum: Hey all, The troubleshooter under “My listing has incorrect information” for Google+ Local support (http://goo.gl/6RYFm) is currently unavailable. It’ll be back in about a week. In the meantime, the support team’s working hard to go through the previously submitted …

When Google wants to verify information about a business and when unable to verify it in a fully automated way, they have someone call that business. The calls can result in suspensions and removals from the index (“We do not support this location”). The call may be precipitated by a change you made to the …

There will be a full schedule of interesting posts this week. However I will be traveling, speaking and consulting. My ability to respond to comments, questions and feedback will be limited. So feel free to chime in if you get the chance to keep the conversation flowing.

Apparently Google+ Local (aka Places) has finally established a firm policy on how to handle Medical/Legal Practice and Practitioner listings that now requires that both the practice and the practitioners be listed. Linda Buquet has taken a Sky is Falling attitude to the change: Big departure from what we are used to and this could …

Google is now processing manual Merge/Verification requests that were made to expedite the integration of the Google+ Local and the Googe+ Business pages. I assume that the bulk of merges have now begun. I and several others received this email in the last few minutes (just before 3:00 pm EST): Hello, Congratulations your Google+ page …

Google is on a mission. If you have been in Siberia studying methane emissions from tundra ponds, you might not have noticed. Otherwise their incredibly aggressive nagging to get you to get a G+ account may have seemed like an ever present specter in your daily Google jaunt. This nag, brought to my attention by …

Several week ago a large number of mostly service area listings started receiving the dreaded “We currently do not support the location” message. At the time Google noted that “your listing may have been dropped due to a technical issue that we cannot yet resolve. We hope to have a resolution soon for this issue, …