{"id":18551,"date":"2015-09-24T13:08:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=18551"},"modified":"2015-09-24T21:53:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T01:53:58","slug":"are-phone-numbers-returning-to-the-3-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/24\/are-phone-numbers-returning-to-the-3-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Phone Numbers Returning to the 3 Pack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Slegg of theSEMPost is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesempost.com\/google-returns-phone-numbers-addresses-to-local-3-pack\/\">reporting the return of phone numbers<\/a> to the Local 3 Pack results. I am not yet seeing them on my Mac with Safari, Chrome or Firefox although some others are reporting seeing them. Update: As of about 5:00 pm eastern they were showing world wide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Certainly their return would prove a boon to those dependent on calls for their sustenance like emergency plumbers etc and from a user POV I welcome them. It isn&#8217;t clear to me if this is the new normal (whatever the f%&amp;k that means) or a broad test. Are you seeing them? If so what browsers?<\/p>\n<p>I only wish I were a fly on the logs of the search results so I could see and know what Google sees and knows about user behaviors.<\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 753px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesempost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/local-pack-phone-numbers-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"753\" height=\"723\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of theSEMPost<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>Update<\/strong>: In small surveys across Google Plus and Twitter as to whether and where 3-pack with the phone # is being seen or not:<\/p>\n<p>They were seen by folks searching from\/located in in Calif, NV, AZ, Japan and Austria.<\/p>\n<p>They were not seen by those searching in FL, NY, Pa, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, DC area, Toronto or the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The results are dependent on physical searcher location NOT the location setting in search. However given the spread and frequency of visibility my current money is on a rollout not a test. Rollout in the sense of testing for the next 3 months or so as opposed to testing this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Slegg of theSEMPost is reporting the return of phone numbers to the Local 3 Pack results. I am not yet seeing them on my Mac with Safari, Chrome or Firefox although some others are reporting seeing them. Update: As of about 5:00 pm eastern they were showing world wide.&nbsp; Certainly their return would prove &#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-18551","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\/18551","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=18551"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18565,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551\/revisions\/18565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}