{"id":16620,"date":"2014-04-30T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T12:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=16620"},"modified":"2014-04-30T09:38:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:38:36","slug":"google-bulk-multi-admin-seen-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/30\/google-bulk-multi-admin-seen-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Bulk Being Upgraded to Google Plus Capability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+NicolaiHelling\">Nicolai Helling<\/a>\u00a0of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.udg.de\/blog\/\">United Digital Group<\/a> is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100006267104739186150\/posts\/ZGXfaZmiBW4\">reporting<\/a>\u00a0on Google Plus the upgrade of the Bulk Upload to allow multiple administrators. Apparently this upgrade will <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/6002011?hl=en\">add<\/a> full social functionality as well (the link from the help file is currently not working).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-6BlXCVP3Opk\/U2C8eoS5UhI\/AAAAAAAAA_E\/zdOSRf03P-4\/w600-h298-no\/bulk-manage-admins.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from Google Help files<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul style=\"color: #444444;\">\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Manage access to your locations by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/4669095\" style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #7759ae;\">adding and removing managers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/4669094\" style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #7759ae;\">transferring location ownership<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span class=\"red-text\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #dd4b39;\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">New!<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/4620143\" style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #7759ae;\">Make updates and posts<\/a>\u00a0to your customers using the Google+ page for your location &#8211;\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span class=\"red-text\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #dd4b39;\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">New!<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have not seen this new feature in dashbaords that I have access to. Here is his <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100006267104739186150\/posts\/ZGXfaZmiBW4\">post<\/a> in its entirety:<\/p>\n<ul>Multi-Admin for Google Places Bulk Upload becomes reality<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">With the ability to enable companies to upload location data in a corporate Google account and then authorize another Google account to manage a single location, a feature is going live that has been awaited for a decade in local search!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This development was preceded by lots of smaller changes to the bulk upload tool, that had been long treated as an unwanted offspring. But as the demand from local search experts and businesses for a more robust Google Places bulk upload backend had steadily increased, this step was somewhat overdue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It is noteworthy that users using the bulk upload have to wait, until Google changes the account to an upgraded account. A good indication for an upgraded account are the new owner status icons in the backend (see attached screenshot).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">With the ability to have multiple admins the bulk upload will also use the rights management architecture and the &#8220;one claim rule&#8221; that is already in use for listings in the Google+ backend and for manually verified locations in the regular Google Places for Business Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So to be clear at this point: A company can now upload and manage up to 10.000 locations in one corporate Google account and remains in full control over each listing by adding and removing other Google accounts (i.e. store managers) for single locations at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+NicolaiHelling\">Nicolai<\/a>\u00a0notes in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/edit-comments.php?p=16443\">comments<\/a> on a previous post about recent Bulk changes updates to the help file:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There has been an update to the announcement page (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/6002011?hl=en\" style=\"font-style: inherit;\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/6002011?hl=en<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It now lists:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Manage access to your locations by adding and removing managers and transferring location ownership \u2013 New!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">as a new feature for upgraded accounts!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There is also a new help page about adding and removing admins:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/4669095?hl=en\" style=\"font-style: inherit;\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/4669095?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And a new help page about transferring account management (i.e. using a different Google account for managing bulk uploads):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/4669093?hl=en\" style=\"font-style: inherit;\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/4669093?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And a new one about transferring ownership on a per location basis:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/4669094?hl=en\" style=\"font-style: inherit;\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/4669094?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And another one about requesting ownership on a per location basis:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/4646651?hl=en\" style=\"font-style: inherit;\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/4646651?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I think Google is getting serious!\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolai Helling\u00a0of the United Digital Group is\u00a0reporting\u00a0on Google Plus the upgrade of the Bulk Upload to allow multiple administrators. Apparently this upgrade will add full social functionality as well (the link from the help file is currently not working). Manage access to your locations by\u00a0adding and removing managers\u00a0and\u00a0transferring location ownership\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0New! 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