{"id":5768,"date":"2010-01-07T07:18:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T11:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2010-01-07T07:20:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T11:20:51","slug":"google-maps-lbc-sending-out-monthly-stats-to-wrong-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/google-maps-lbc-sending-out-monthly-stats-to-wrong-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps LBC Sending Out Monthly Stats to Wrong Businesses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At about 1 am this morning, Danielle Kraft of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiokraft.com\">Studio Kraft in NJ<\/a> sent along this comment:<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p>Hi Mike,<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, this evening I received an email that was detailed for a &#8220;Google Local Business Center Updates for Maaco Collision Repair &amp; Auto Painting.&#8221; I&#8217;ve received this type of email before for a business we have claimed, however, in this instance, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, have I ever claimed a business related to Maaco. This is not totally incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>Glitch perhaps in their system? Very strange. The email header checked out, doesn&#8217;t appear to be spam. Sender =&#8221;localbusinesscenter@google.com&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone experienced this before?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Danielle<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>At about 3 am I received my monthly update from the Google Local Business Center for <strong>Kurlon Mattress Dealers, Home, Office, School Furniture Shop : Tk trading<\/strong>  a company (with a very long name, hmmm) that is most definitely NOT in my LBC:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blogimages\/Picture 2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogimages\/Picture 2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Picture 27\" width=\"520\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, Danielle, it does appear to be a fairly massive &#8220;glitch&#8221;. I am sure that you in NJ and I in upsate NY are not the only ones to get their monthly stats in this way. The only question is did every report go out to the wrong recipient? <\/p>\n<p>If any of you got mine, would you let me know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At about 1 am this morning, Danielle Kraft of Studio Kraft in NJ sent along this comment: Hi Mike, Oddly, this evening I received an email that was detailed for a &#8220;Google Local Business Center Updates for Maaco Collision Repair &amp; Auto Painting.&#8221; I&#8217;ve received this type of email before for a business we have &#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-5768","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\/5768","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=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5774,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions\/5774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}