US English (US) Google Bulk Upload Categories<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIf you would like to help in the gathering of categories here are the instructions to do so:<\/p>\n
Go into the new dashboard\u00a0(if your current email only goes to the old dashboard then create a new gmail account)<\/p>\n
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1-Select \u201cadd a listing\u201d
\n2-Search for a business type in the city\/country you want to gather the categories for. IE Car Repair Quebec , Quebec
\n3-Pick any unclaimed business from the list presented. If it is already claimed you will get a message.
\n4-When presented with the choice to verify, select \u201ccontinue and verify later.
\n5-Select \u201cEdit information\u201d
\n6-Select Category: Edit
\n7-View Source code
\n8-search for GCID (the categories)
\n9-Select all
\n10-strip away useless HTML
\n11-then return to the dashboard and cancel the edit box
\n12-Select the gear in the upper right of the screen and \u201cremove this listing\u201d from your dashboard.<\/p>\n
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Updated 2\/5\/2014 With Google’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& Courtney Rogers. I want to give a special hat tip to Keenan Glass who showed me how to gather categories in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-googlelocal-categories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095","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=16095"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16107,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095\/revisions\/16107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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