{"id":10426,"date":"2011-07-01T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T13:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/01\/google-to-have-business-profile-pages\/"},"modified":"2012-08-11T08:08:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T12:08:14","slug":"google-to-have-business-profile-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/01\/google-to-have-business-profile-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ To Have Business Profile Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Huber, <a href=\"http:\/\/profiles.google.com\/jhuber\">Google VP of Local and Commerce<\/a>, has indicated that Google+, at some point in the near future will include the option for business profile page. Here is his <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/30\/jeff-huber-responds\/#comment-551090\">comment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>And pre-emptively answering a question &#8212; yes, we will have (smb) business profile pages on Google+. I can&#8217;t announce a launch date yet, but we want to make them *great*, and we&#8217;re coding as fast as we can.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He has additionally indicated that he will be using Google+ as his primary voice (not Twitter) and that, if we let him know, he will make invites available for the Google+ field trial to anyone that needs one.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure what I think about the idea of having a second SMB profile in addition to an already claimed Places page (it is early, I am on vacation and typing on a bad cell signal on my iPhone but wanted to get this out).<\/p>\n<p>Obviously a large number of small businesses have yet to figure out Places and the idea of a second &#8220;Places&#8221; is somewhat daunting unless it is well integrated into the existing processes. In the end, I suppose that it comes down to the benefits that an SMB would derive as to whether it will be worth it. It is certainly an interesting idea.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, Jeff putting up with my tweaks and providing this information, demonstrates the possibility of a coming transparency from the folks at Google Local (hooray!!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Huber, Google VP of Local and Commerce, has indicated that Google+, at some point in the near future will include the option for business profile page. Here is his comment: And pre-emptively answering a question &#8212; yes, we will have (smb) business profile pages on Google+. I can&#8217;t announce a launch date yet, but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13411,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426\/revisions\/13411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}