{"id":12397,"date":"2012-03-07T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=12397"},"modified":"2012-03-07T14:03:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T18:03:38","slug":"google-places-review-bug-or-new-link-to-a-google-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/google-places-review-bug-or-new-link-to-a-google-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Places: Review Bug Or New Link to A Google Property?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frequent contributor Plamen has pointed out a new “behavior” in how Google is handling the main search display of new Google reviews showing up on the Place page; adding a link to the location in the “around the web” review section. Whether this is a bug or one more way to insert another link to an additional Google property in the main search results is unclear.<\/p>\n

Here is the Places listing: Custom Shoe Repair<\/a> that I added the review to if you want to explore my sample more closely. But it seems to add the links to the search results in near real time so you should be able to add your own review to a Place page and see the results quickly.<\/p>\n

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Oddly the link heads off to Google Maps<\/a> and generates loc:search showing the location and place. As more reviews get added the url is updated to include a new author flag ID but the content does not change.<\/p>\n

What is your opinion? Bug or just one more attempt to drive users sideways to a different Google page?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frequent contributor Plamen has pointed out a new “behavior” in how Google is handling the main search display of new Google reviews showing up on the Place page; adding a link to the location in the “around the web” review section. Whether this is a bug or one more way to insert another link to …<\/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-12397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t