{"id":16095,"date":"2014-02-04T08:34:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T12:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=16095"},"modified":"2014-02-05T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T19:30:00","slug":"google-category-tool-updated-third-party-categories-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/google-category-tool-updated-third-party-categories-added\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Category Tool Updated &#8211; Third Party Categories Added"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16097 alignright\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-02-04 at 7.39.08 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-04-at-7.39.08-AM-520x469.png\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-04-at-7.39.08-AM-520x469.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-04-at-7.39.08-AM-221x200.png 221w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-04-at-7.39.08-AM.png 756w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Updated 2\/5\/2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Google&#8217;s rollout of new international categories, we are in the process of updating the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/Google_LBC_Categories\">Google Category Tool<\/a>. Thanks to those that have helped out; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.about.me\/mohammedalami\">Mohammed Alami<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrismccreery\">Chris McCreery<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+EduarddeBoer\">Eduard de Boer<\/a>\u00a0&amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trafixs.com\">Courtney Rogers<\/a>. I want to give a special hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keenanglass.com\">Keenan Glass<\/a> who showed me how to gather categories in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>We have also updated the tool with a number of third party categories that are commonly used in the US. Let me know if you find the additions of Localeze, Yelp, InfoUSA, Bing and NAICS categories helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the current status of the updates<\/p>\n<p>Updated<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Den-US%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">US English (US -New Places Dashboard Categories -Updated 2\/3\/14 (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Den-CA%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">CA English (CA -New Places Dashboard Categories -Updated 2\/1\/14 (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dfr-CA%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">CA French (CA -New Places Dashboard Categories -Updated 2\/1\/14 (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Den-UK%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">UK English (UK -New Places Dashboard Categories -Updated 2\/1\/14 (PfB) (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dde-DE%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">DE German (DE) New Places Dashboard Categories -Updated 2\/1\/14 (PfB) (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dde-AT%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">AT Austria (AT -New Places Dashboard Categories -Updated 2\/1\/14 (PfB) (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dde-AT%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dnl-NL%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">NL Dutch (NL) -New Places Dashboard Categories -Updated 2\/3\/14 (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dnl-NL%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dfr-FR%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">FR French (FR) -New Places Dashboard Categories -Updated 2\/4\/14 (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dfr-FR%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dja-JP%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">JP Japan (JP) -New Places Dashboard Categories -Update 2\/4\/14 (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dja-JP%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dno-NO%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">NO Norwegian (NO) -New Places Dashboard Categories -Updated 2\/4\/14 (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dno-NO%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dit-IT%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">IT Italian (IT) -New Places Dashboard Categories -Updated 2\/4\/14 (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have the following categories and will be added\/updated soon<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dit-IT%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dro-RO%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">RO Romania (RO) New Places Dashboard Categories &#8211; (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dro-RO%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Den-ZA%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">ZA South Africa (ZA) New Places Dashboard Categories &#8211; (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Den-ZA%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dsv-SE%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">SE Swedish (SE) New Places Dashboard Categories &#8211; (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dsv-SE%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dtr-TR%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\">TR Turkish (TR) New Places Dashboard Categories &#8211; (PfB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Dtr-TR%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1\"><\/a>India, Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Yellow Pages<\/li>\n<li>Zip Local<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Need help getting the categories for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any other country you would like to see added (let me know which ones).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other new categories added to the tool<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3DLocaleze-en%26ottype%3D1\">Localeze Categories &#8211; Complete List<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Den-ylp%26ottype%3D1\">Yelp Categories (EN)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Den-AL%26ottype%3D1\">Angies List Categories<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Den-SIC%26ottype%3D1\">InfoUSA (SIC) Categories<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Den-NAICS%26ottype%3D1\">NAICS Codes and Categories<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Den-BING%26ottype%3D1\">Bing Codes and Categories (EN)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google Bulk Upload Categories<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-lbc-categories\/search.php?q=&amp;val=hl-gl%3Den-US%28Google%20Bulk%20Upload%20Categories%29%26ottype%3D1\">US English (US) Google Bulk Upload Categories<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you would like to help in the gathering of categories here are the instructions to do so:<\/p>\n<p>Go into the new dashboard\u00a0(if your current email only goes to the old dashboard then create a new gmail account)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1-Select \u201cadd a listing\u201d<br \/>\n2-Search for a business type in the city\/country you want to gather the categories for. IE Car Repair Quebec , Quebec<br \/>\n3-Pick any unclaimed business from the list presented. If it is already claimed you will get a message.<br \/>\n4-When presented with the choice to verify, select \u201ccontinue and verify later.<br \/>\n5-Select \u201cEdit information\u201d<br \/>\n6-Select Category: Edit<br \/>\n7-View Source code<br \/>\n8-search for GCID (the categories)<br \/>\n9-Select all<br \/>\n10-strip away useless HTML<br \/>\n11-then return to the dashboard and cancel the edit box<br \/>\n12-Select the gear in the upper right of the screen and \u201cremove this listing\u201d from your dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 2\/5\/2014 With Google&#8217;s rollout of new international categories, we are in the process of updating the Google Category Tool. Thanks to those that have helped out; Mohammed Alami, Chris McCreery, Eduard de Boer\u00a0&amp; Courtney Rogers. 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