{"id":18055,"date":"2015-05-12T22:47:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T02:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=18055"},"modified":"2015-05-13T10:04:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T14:04:14","slug":"google-my-business-locations-bulk-gets-interface-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/12\/google-my-business-locations-bulk-gets-interface-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Google My Business Locations (Bulk) Gets Interface Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Wallace (<a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LocalGladiator\">@<span class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">LocalGladiator<\/span><\/a>) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethology.com\">Ethology<\/a> has alerted me to a new, shiny interface for the Google My Business Locations (i.e. bulk) dashboard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/6002011?p=feed_changes&amp;authuser=0&amp;hl=en&amp;rd=1\">Announced<\/a> in the Help Files with the interface conventions\u00a0detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/4407564\">here<\/a>, the interface appears to improve what has been a product frequented with bugs and inconsistencies. Google has now posted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!category-topic\/business\/powdrsRuJtg\">forum<\/a> as well where they note that time to live has improved. .<\/p>\n<p>The new interface provides meaningful error states and the options to fix the errors\u00a0as well as the ability to sort locations by Status, Store Code or location Name. There is also a &#8220;to-Do&#8221; list option that quickly shows you listings that require updates.\u00a0Hopefully the many idiopathic error messages that had no resolution have been banished as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-10.35.16-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18059 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-10.35.16-PM-520x312.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-12 at 10.35.16 PM\" width=\"520\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-10.35.16-PM-520x312.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-10.35.16-PM-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-10.35.16-PM-1024x614.png 1024w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-10.35.16-PM.png 1226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a pull out window that allows multiple ways of filtering\u00a0the listings by different state so that you can view &amp; hopefully repair listings that are in various states of well being or disrepair:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-10.36.39-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18057\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-10.36.39-PM-467x600.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-12 at 10.36.39 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-10.36.39-PM-467x600.png 467w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-10.36.39-PM-156x200.png 156w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-12-at-10.36.39-PM.png 606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Formatting errors<\/li>\n<li>Duplicate store codes<\/li>\n<li>Duplicate locations<\/li>\n<li>Duplicate addresses<\/li>\n<li>Disabled<\/li>\n<li>Different owner<\/li>\n<li>Google updates<\/li>\n<li>Missing store codes<\/li>\n<li>Pending review<\/li>\n<li>Unverified locations<\/li>\n<li>Live locations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately analytics &amp; review management are still on a per location basis with no opportunity to view them collectively and there is no option to add\u00a0photos to the Plus Page without\u00a0the owner\/manager\u00a0returning to each location&#8217;s\u00a0page level editor in Plus.\u00a0All three gaping productivity sinks that will some day be fixed. It is also unclear whether Google has fixed the annoying 200 character limit on description although since this is mostly a cosmetic upgrade it seems unlikely. Oh and there is still no phone support.<\/p>\n<p>The interface is a definite improvement for bulk users. But there is still a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p>Updated AM, May 13 with minor details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Wallace (@LocalGladiator) of Ethology has alerted me to a new, shiny interface for the Google My Business Locations (i.e. bulk) dashboard. Announced in the Help Files with the interface conventions\u00a0detailed here, the interface appears to improve what has been a product frequented with bugs and inconsistencies. Google has now posted in the forum as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055","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=18055"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18071,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055\/revisions\/18071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}