{"id":11463,"date":"2011-10-20T17:43:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T21:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=11463"},"modified":"2011-10-20T17:43:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T21:43:35","slug":"minor-update-to-guidelines-re-classes-meeting-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/20\/minor-update-to-guidelines-re-classes-meeting-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Update to Guidelines RE Classes &#038; Meeting Locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has made a minor update to their <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/google-places-quality-guidelines-update-ongoing-classes-at-a-different-location-are-ineligible\/\">guideline update disallowing<\/a> a listing for an ongoing service, class, or meeting:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Last Week&#8217;s Update<\/td>\n<td>This Week&#8217;s Update<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>You also can\u2019t create a Places listing for an ongoing service, class, or meeting at a location that you don\u2019t own or have the authority to represent. Please coordinate with your host to have your information displayed on their Place page <strong>as a custom attribute<\/strong> or within their Description field.<\/td>\n<td>You also can&#8217;t create a Places listing for an ongoing service, class, or meeting at a location that you don&#8217;t own or have the authority to represent. Please coordinate with your host to have your information displayed on their Place Page within their Description field.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>As I <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/google-places-quality-guidelines-update-ongoing-classes-at-a-different-location-are-ineligible\/\">noted<\/a> at the time of the update last week:\u00a0<em>Using the now hidden extra details as Google suggests would be useless and there is not enough space in the 200 character description. Not a helpful suggestion at all.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now there is even less recommended choice. 200 Character space available to describe a business is barely adequate to describe a business. Asking either the location or the renter to split that space is not really a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has made a minor update to their guideline update disallowing a listing for an ongoing service, class, or meeting: Last Week&#8217;s Update This Week&#8217;s Update You also can\u2019t create a Places listing for an ongoing service, class, or meeting at a location that you don\u2019t own or have the authority to represent. Please coordinate &#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-11463","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\/11463","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=11463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11467,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions\/11467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}