{"id":4961,"date":"2009-10-21T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T19:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2009-10-22T08:28:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T12:28:36","slug":"google-maps-lbc-now-provides-direct-link-to-business-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/21\/google-maps-lbc-now-provides-direct-link-to-business-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps: LBC Now Provides Direct Link to Business Listing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barry at Search Engine Roundtable was the first to point out<\/a> that Google has added<\/a> a link to the Local Business Center that allows a business to locate the particular listing in the Maps index.<\/p>\n

\"Picture<\/a><\/p>\n

It is a simple upgrade, that has long been requested, that hopefully will indicate to new listers and businesses unfamiliar with Maps how to find their listing once it has gone live. It will increase confidence levels amongst users and decrease postings in the forums.<\/p>\n

The only question now, is, when the link leads to nowhere, how do you find where your listing went? I have recently seen\/heard of cases where the listing is in fact missing in action and this link nor any other search seems capable of dragging it out of the index.<\/p>\n

I was also curious as to the parsing of the URL that is generated by the link so I asked Barry Hunter<\/a>, mapper extrodonaire….
\n
\nHere is his response to the URL for Rusty Brick:
\nhttp:\/\/maps.google.com\/?hl=en&q=*&georestrict=input_srcid%3A2a3460b2291b0b2d&iwloc=A&iwd=1&mrt=yp<\/p>\n

I know some bits, but not sure of it all.<\/p>\n

I guess the jump to ‘places’ is because the page notices there is only
\none listing, so it might as well just show the fuller ‘places’ page.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?hl=en
\njust says english \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

&q=*
\nany results – could use keywords here to filter the list<\/p>\n

&georestrict=input_srcid%3A2a3460b2291b0b2d
\nmust be the unique ID for the particular buiness. – don’t know
\nhow to find the ID.<\/p>\n

&iwloc=A
\nshow the info window for result A (if have multiple businesses, could
\nperhaps use to specify which to show ‘places’ for.<\/p>\n

&iwd=1
\nSpecifies that the infowindow displayed (iwloc=) will be a detailed
\n(expanded) view.
\n– which suggests that the ‘expanded’ view is what has become ‘places’
\n– removing this stops the jump to places<\/p>\n

&mrt=yp
\nonly show business (yellow pages) results. Possibly removing that
\nwould show community edits – but doesnt do anythign for RustyBrick<\/p>\n

See:
\nhttp:\/\/mapki.com\/wiki\/Google_Map_Parameters<\/p>\n

I’ve also found my link now, its on the main page of the LBC – because
\nonly have one listing it jumps to the details page for that result.<\/p>\n

.. so all the params are to get it to sucessfully redirect to the
\nresult in places – its just very unfortunate it goes about it in a
\nroundabout way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barry at Search Engine Roundtable was the first to point out that Google has added a link to the Local Business Center that allows a business to locate the particular listing in the Maps index. It is a simple upgrade, that has long been requested, that hopefully will indicate to new listers and businesses unfamiliar …<\/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-4961","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\/4961","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=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4966,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions\/4966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}