{"id":14145,"date":"2013-01-19T11:07:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T15:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=14145"},"modified":"2013-01-19T11:38:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T15:38:03","slug":"google-local-improved-messaging-on-moved-businesses-now-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/19\/google-local-improved-messaging-on-moved-businesses-now-showing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Local: Improved Messaging on Moved Businesses Now Showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in December Google started <a href=\"http:\/\/localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com\/google-local-important\/1580-hooray-new-business-moved-feature-google-local.html\">rolling<\/a> out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/places\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=154102\">improved instructions &amp; listing messaging<\/a>\u00a0on pages for businesses that Google knew had moved locations. Instead of stating that the business was closed Google will, if proper procedure is followed, indicate that a business has relocated. This new messaging is starting to <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ie=UTF8&amp;cid=8496117721875529256&amp;q=Los+Fernandez&amp;iwloc=A&amp;gl=US&amp;hl=en\">appear<\/a> in the wild. While still not perfect and the moving process is still too complicated, it is an improvement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14169 alignleft\" alt=\"Google Maps\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Google-Maps-520x196.png\" width=\"445\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/places\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=154102\">instructions<\/a> to mark a place as moved:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Google has noted that the improved messaging will only appear for pages that Google knows represent businesses that have moved. Business owners can indicate that a page is an old location and where the new one is by:<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; click\u00a0<b>Edit business details<\/b><\/div>\n<div>&#8211; select &#8220;Place is permanently closed&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; fill in the new address in the text box<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; This is outlined in this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/places\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=154102\">Help Center article<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in December Google started rolling out\u00a0improved instructions &amp; listing messaging\u00a0on pages for businesses that Google knew had moved locations. Instead of stating that the business was closed Google will, if proper procedure is followed, indicate that a business has relocated. This new messaging is starting to appear in the wild. While still not perfect &#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-14145","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\/14145","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=14145"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14174,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14145\/revisions\/14174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}