{"id":13513,"date":"2012-09-21T13:21:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T17:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=13513"},"modified":"2012-09-21T13:22:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T17:22:57","slug":"g-local-urls-mia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/g-local-urls-mia\/","title":{"rendered":"G+ Local URLs MIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Screen-Shot-2012-09-21-at-1.00.48-PM1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13529\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Screen-Shot-2012-09-21-at-1.00.48-PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Screen-Shot-2012-09-21-at-1.00.48-PM1-245x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Screen-Shot-2012-09-21-at-1.00.48-PM1-245x200.jpg 245w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Screen-Shot-2012-09-21-at-1.00.48-PM1.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a>With the help of Annie &amp; Lisa Kolb from <a href=\"http:\/\/acorn-is.com\">Acorn<\/a>, I became aware of a new bug affecting Google&#8217;s local index where the URL of the listng&#8217;s site and occasionally the telephone number are stripped from the search result and the G+ Page. The URL is replaced with the plus.google.com URL in the search results. It seems to strike listings that have been claimed via the dashboard as well as merged listings that have been verified via Google+.<\/p>\n<p>The problem seems to reside in the final local index as there is no indication of the problem in the respective MapMaker records or the Places Dashboard. The problem is fairly widespread. Google has <a href=\"http:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!category-topic\/business\/technical-issue\/FaVp1VXzUpY\">acknowledged<\/a> and is aware of the problem and has started a <a href=\"http:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!category-topic\/business\/technical-issue\/FaVp1VXzUpY\">thread<\/a> to collect reports of the issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/plus-page.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13527\" title=\"plus-page\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/plus-page.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/plus-page.jpg 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/plus-page-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some links that Acorn discovered in their research if you want to see other examples.<!--more--><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 520px;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><strong>Search Result<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><strong>Google + Local Page<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=foxglove+guest+house&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">Foxglove Guest House<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112673803651680903997\/about?gl=us&amp;hl=en\">Foxglove Plus Page<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=The+Full+Moon+Cottage+Seattle&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\"> The Full Moon Cottage Seattle<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100959568190818162425\/about?gl=us&amp;hl=en\">The Full Moon Plus Page<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=Lake+Union+Cottage+Seattle&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">Lake Union Cottage Seattle<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104708423345946477412\/about?gl=us&amp;hl=en\">Lake Union Cottage Plus Page<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=Suite+Northwest+B+%26+B+Meridian+Seattle&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">Suite Northwest B &amp; B Meridian Seattle<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103221400818600736515\/about?gl=us&amp;hl=en\">Suite Northwest Plus Page<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=The+Extra+Bedroom+Vashon+WA&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">The Extra Bedroom Vashon WA<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115551192124783203824\/about?gl=us&amp;hl=en\">The Extra Bedroom Plus Page<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/\">Hood Canal Guest House Hansville <\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108955784500908490131\/about?gl=us&amp;hl=en\">Hood Canal Plus Page<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the help of Annie &amp; Lisa Kolb from Acorn, I became aware of a new bug affecting Google&#8217;s local index where the URL of the listng&#8217;s site and occasionally the telephone number are stripped from the search result and the G+ Page. The URL is replaced with the plus.google.com URL in the search results. &#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-13513","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\/13513","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=13513"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13534,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions\/13534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}