{"id":14158,"date":"2013-01-19T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=14158"},"modified":"2013-01-19T10:28:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T14:28:36","slug":"google-local-now-suggests-places-to-review-based-on-your-search-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/19\/google-local-now-suggests-places-to-review-based-on-your-search-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ Local Now Suggests Places to Review Based on Your Search History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google may no longer allow SMBs to run <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/14\/google-review-contests-violate-guidelines\/\">client contests<\/a> \u00a0for money or <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/18\/do-review-contests-that-donate-to-charity-violate-googles-review-guidelines-yes\/\">charity<\/a>\u00a0to gather reviews. That doesn&#8217;t slow Google down from encouraging G+ Local users from leaving more reviews by digging into a users search history.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"name\">The Google Plus Daily noted several days ago that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleplusdaily.com\/2013\/01\/google-local-now-suggests-places-to.html\">Google+ Local Now Suggests Places to Review<\/a>. Google is using your search history and checkins to inform the nag.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"name\">Clearly Google is exploring one more way to &#8220;close the search to sale loop&#8221; and determine when a searcher actually makes a purchase. When you combine this with Offers, Check-Ins, Driving Dirctions, Wallet, Zavers (Coupons), various iPhone apps and the use of Android, Google is clearly going to triangulate their way to conversion information if they can&#8217;t get it directly and they are obviously looking across all of their software to find it.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14159\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-01-18 at 5.21.18 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-18-at-5.21.18-PM-520x158.png\" width=\"520\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-18-at-5.21.18-PM-520x158.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-18-at-5.21.18-PM-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-18-at-5.21.18-PM.png 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google may no longer allow SMBs to run client contests \u00a0for money or charity\u00a0to gather reviews. That doesn&#8217;t slow Google down from encouraging G+ Local users from leaving more reviews by digging into a users search history. The Google Plus Daily noted several days ago that\u00a0Google+ Local Now Suggests Places to Review. Google is using &#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-14158","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\/14158","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=14158"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14168,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158\/revisions\/14168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}