{"id":124,"date":"2007-03-08T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T21:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2007-03-09T19:55:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T23:55:15","slug":"google-upgrades-local-business-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/08\/google-upgrades-local-business-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Upgrades Local Business Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has upgraded the Local Business Center<\/a> with a range of new features. You can now:<\/p>\n

*Add photos to your Google Maps listing (within the guidelines)
\n*Add custom attributes to your business listings
\n*Correct and adjust your Google map marker location, so if it is slightly off, you can move it to the right spot
\n*You can now see statistics on how many people viewed and clicked on your local business listings<\/p>\n

The ability to correct your map marker has been a frequent request at the Google Maps for Business Owners group and will add one step to the process of improving data accuracy.<\/p>\n

The custom attributes feature holds out the promise of solving one of the vexing problems facing businesses that serve larger areas than the locale in which they are located and possibly solving the categorization issues as well.<\/p>\n

The other very interesting feature of the custom attributes is the attributes differ by industry group<\/a>. The default values for a Physician are different than the default values of a restaurant. It appears that Google is in the race to build the “semantic web”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Barry Schwartz at SearchEngineLand has a great summary of the other new features in the Local Business Center.<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

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Google has upgraded the Local Business Center with a range of new features. You can now: *Add photos to your Google Maps listing (within the guidelines) *Add custom attributes to your business listings *Correct and adjust your Google map marker location, so if it is slightly off, you can move it to the right spot …<\/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-124","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