{"id":18583,"date":"2015-09-26T15:24:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T19:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=18583"},"modified":"2015-09-26T15:24:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T19:24:58","slug":"google-local-search-phone-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/26\/google-local-search-phone-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Local Search Phone Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+TimColling\/posts\">Tim Colling<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+HelmutGeissler\/posts\">Helmut Schmidt<\/a> (Google Local TC Extraordinaire) both <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+MikeBlumenthal\/posts\/4xL53dsU3q9\">pointed out <\/a>to me that if you add\u00a0the word &#8216;phone&#8217; to your keyword local search, Google DOES in fact surface the phone number.<\/p>\n<p>Thus while a search like<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=emergency+services+buffalo&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\"> emergency services buffalo<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=emergency+plumber+buffalo&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">emergency plumber buffalo<\/a> would not return a phone number (even though they should&#8230;Google what are you thinking???), a searcher can surface it with the search\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=emergency+plumber+buffalo+phone&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8#q=emergency+services+buffalo+phone\">emergency services buffalo phone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have not found a way to surface street address in the Local Pack but maybe there is one?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-26-at-3.13.04-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18584\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-26-at-3.13.04-PM-520x512.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-09-26 at 3.13.04 PM\" width=\"520\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-26-at-3.13.04-PM-520x512.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-26-at-3.13.04-PM-203x200.png 203w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-26-at-3.13.04-PM.png 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe this will make our good friend, Dave happy&#8230; hmm probably not. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Colling and Helmut Schmidt (Google Local TC Extraordinaire) both pointed out to me that if you add\u00a0the word &#8216;phone&#8217; to your keyword local search, Google DOES in fact surface the phone number. Thus while a search like emergency services buffalo or emergency plumber buffalo would not return a phone number (even though they should&#8230;Google &#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-18583","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\/18583","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=18583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18585,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583\/revisions\/18585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}