{"id":560,"date":"2008-03-25T09:53:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T13:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/25\/how-to-change-your-business-address-in-the-internet-age\/"},"modified":"2015-05-01T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:03:44","slug":"how-to-change-your-business-address-in-the-internet-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/25\/how-to-change-your-business-address-in-the-internet-age\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change your Business Address in the Internet Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Please see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=769&amp;action=edit#\">An Internet Change of Address Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It used to be a relatively simple job to get your address changed when you moved a business. You simply needed to contact the four or five principal parties; the Post Office, the Phone Company, your Yellow Page Rep (actually he would track you down), the Newspaper and your current customer base.<\/p>\n<p>In the Internet age this process has become more complicated. The PlusBox from Google manages to excacerbate the problem by highlighting your old address for what seems like forever.<\/p>\n<p>I have over the past several weeks written about the problem of erroneous address information in the Google PlusBox (<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/06\/google-plus-box-where-does-the-wrong-data-come-from\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/04\/google-and-the-plusbox-blues\/\">here<\/a>) and recently Bill Slawski covered the issue with one of his Google <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seobythesea.com\/?p=1022\">patent reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I felt the urge to respond to this familiar sounding message requesting help with their erroneous PlusBox in the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners\/browse_thread\/thread\/1054e285d10af1d8?hl=en\">Google Maps for Business Group <\/a>the other day. I posted my response at SearchEngineLand:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/080325-075401.php\">Change Your Address In The Google Plusbox In 5 Simple Steps<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sphinn.com\/story\/36667\">To Sphinn the SEL article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Please see\u00a0An Internet Change of Address Guide It used to be a relatively simple job to get your address changed when you moved a business. You simply needed to contact the four or five principal parties; the Post Office, the Phone Company, your Yellow Page Rep (actually he would track you down), the Newspaper &#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-560","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\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18007,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/18007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}