{"id":4180,"date":"2009-08-13T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2009-08-12T15:51:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T19:51:29","slug":"google-maps-where-did-the-lbc-stats-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/google-maps-where-did-the-lbc-stats-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps: Where did the LBC stats go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new stats in the Local Business Center <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallbusinesssem.com\/googles-local-business-dashboard-borderline-useless\/2223\/\">leave a bit to be desired<\/a>. Apparently though they are better than no stats as many outside the US, which have not yet been upgraded to the data rich dashboard, are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/maps\/thread?tid=60c92c5073f57633&amp;hl=en&amp;fid=60c92c5073f57633000470f6d285ceee\">reporting<\/a> that what few stats they had are no longer showing and have been at best erratic for the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>I contacted a number of Canadian local search folks, all of who confirmed that for the past 3-8 weeks stats have all but disappeared in their Local Business Centers. Have the stats disappeared in anticipation of a world wide upgrade to the new data rich dashboard? Or is there just a quirk in providing them?<\/p>\n<p>The data rich dashboard was <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/google-maps-new-data-rich-dashboard-in-the-lbc\/\">introduced<\/a> in the US during the last week of May. 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