{"id":11330,"date":"2011-10-07T14:51:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=11330"},"modified":"2011-10-07T14:52:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:52:38","slug":"google-places-alert-another-ugly-bug-that-could-nuke-your-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/google-places-alert-another-ugly-bug-that-could-nuke-your-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Places Alert: Another Ugly Bug That Could Nuke Your Listing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/Places\/thread?hl=en&amp;tid=3ba63b1b28447cc3&amp;start=40\">service area bug<\/a> in the Google Places Dashboard that has an easy work around but terrible results if you aren&#8217;t aware of it. (Thanks to Steve King of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpartners.com\/\">Simpartners<\/a> for also highlighting the issue to me.)<\/p>\n<p>When a business selects service area the &#8220;Do not show my business address on my Maps listing&#8221; check defaults to checked EVERY time you go in an edit your record. Thus it is necessary to deselect the check box or you will <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/03\/google-places-search-hiding-address-no-longer-buries-listing\/\">suffer<\/a> the outcome associated with hiding your address. YOUR LISTING WILL DROP OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH (As defined by Maps).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/service-area-bug.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11332\" title=\"service area bug\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/service-area-bug-520x254.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/service-area-bug-520x254.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/service-area-bug-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/service-area-bug-1024x501.png 1024w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/service-area-bug.png 1139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a reported service area bug in the Google Places Dashboard that has an easy work around but terrible results if you aren&#8217;t aware of it. (Thanks to Steve King of Simpartners for also highlighting the issue to me.) When a business selects service area the &#8220;Do not show my business address on my &#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11330","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=11330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11336,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11330\/revisions\/11336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}