{"id":12753,"date":"2012-05-07T14:11:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T18:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=12753"},"modified":"2012-05-07T14:11:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T18:11:35","slug":"google-places-quality-guideline-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/google-places-quality-guideline-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Places Quality Guideline Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nyagoslav Zhekov <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngsmarketing.com\/promotions-and-contests-on-google-placesgle-places\/\">pointed out<\/a> to me that Google has recently added the following to their <a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/places\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=107528\">Google Places Guidelines<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Marketing, promotions, or other contests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Any promotion, marketing, contests, or other giveaways should clearly link to the terms of the activity and provide clear guidelines and qualifications. 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