{"id":364,"date":"2008-01-06T11:16:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T15:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/06\/google-maps-business-location-bulk-upload-still-not-working\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T11:16:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T15:16:44","slug":"google-maps-business-location-bulk-upload-still-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/06\/google-maps-business-location-bulk-upload-still-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Map&#8217;s Business Location Bulk Upload Still Not Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MapsGuide Jen had noted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners\/browse_thread\/thread\/3e69ce08263aaa1b\/\">Google Group &#8211; Maps for Business<\/a> that the bulk upload <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/local\/add\/helpFeeds?hl=en-US&amp;gl=US\">had been fixed<\/a> as of January 4th. That &#8220;fact&#8221; was reported <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/29\/google-maps-bulk-upload-now-broken-in-lbc\/\">here<\/a> and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/archives\/015861.html\">SearchEngine Roundtable<\/a>. However according to recent posts in the Group (<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners\/browse_thread\/thread\/39e8dd16705ec8b9?hl=en\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners\/browse_thread\/thread\/777fe65d94f579c8?hl=en\">here<\/a>) it appears  that the bulk upload feature is still not working. This feature has been missing in action since approximately December 20th.<\/p>\n<p>While Google has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/archives\/014403.html\">reportedly been working on changes<\/a> to the Bulk Upload feature to minmize Mapspam, it appears that MapSpam has also <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/today%e2%80%99s-google-mapspam-report-75-chance-of-rain\/\">been on the upswing<\/a> of late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MapsGuide Jen had noted in the Google Group &#8211; Maps for Business that the bulk upload had been fixed as of January 4th. That &#8220;fact&#8221; was reported here and at SearchEngine Roundtable. However according to recent posts in the Group (here and here) it appears that the bulk upload feature is still not working. This &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}