{"id":20015,"date":"2016-12-02T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T18:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=20015"},"modified":"2016-12-02T15:57:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T19:57:33","slug":"google-local-spam-hall-of-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/02\/google-local-spam-hall-of-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Local Spam Hall of Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If its good enough to do, its good enough to do in excess.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly with a name that gets verified in the GMB. The only questions I have remaining are his age, his wife&#8217;s name and how many children he has.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Google should do away with categories and attributes and just allow businesses to put everything including the kitchen sink (and emoji&#8217;s of course) in their name field.<\/p>\n<p>Max Minzer though\u00a0asked on Twiter: why just 3 stars? My theory is that he hit the field character limit and it was removing two stars or removing some other more critical piece of information.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joyannehawkins.com\">Joy Hawkins<\/a>. Listing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50+BONE+%26+JOINT+CLINIC+(+Physiotherapy+Solutions+%26+Pain+Management+Clinic+)+-+DR.+ABHISHEK+GUPTA,+MPTh.+(Orthopedics),+CMT+(+Joint+and+Spine+)+CNR+(+Apollo+Hospital+),+Senior+Consultant+(Over+13+Years'+of+experience+in+management+of+critical+Pain+under+Orthopedic+and+Spinal+conditions+)+FORMERLY+AT+:+MAX+HOSPITAL+-+Greater+Noida,+ARTEMIS+HOSPITAL+-+Gurgaon,+APOLLO+HOSPITAL+-+Chandigarh+%23+VISITING+CONSULTANT+:+ROCKLAND+HOSPITAL+-+New+Delhi+,+INDOGULF+HOSPITAL+-+Noida+\u267f+HOME+VISITS+AVAILABLE\/@28.6304491,77.4372947,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x390cee3bb930c337:0x1f48c32cd72f5c76!8m2!3d28.6304491!4d77.4394834\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20016 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screenshot-2016-12-02-13.00.52.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-12-02-13-00-52\" width=\"467\" height=\"1089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screenshot-2016-12-02-13.00.52.png 467w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screenshot-2016-12-02-13.00.52-86x200.png 86w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screenshot-2016-12-02-13.00.52-257x600.png 257w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screenshot-2016-12-02-13.00.52-439x1024.png 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PS the beginning and ending characters are Unicode Emojis which can easily be inserted for dramatic affect even without the excessive detail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If its good enough to do, its good enough to do in excess. Particularly with a name that gets verified in the GMB. The only questions I have remaining are his age, his wife&#8217;s name and how many children he has. Maybe Google should do away with categories and attributes and just allow businesses to &#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-20015","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\/20015","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=20015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20020,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20015\/revisions\/20020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}