{"id":639,"date":"2008-05-06T07:23:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T11:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2008-05-06T08:31:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T12:31:34","slug":"google-maps-lost-record-recovery-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/06\/google-maps-lost-record-recovery-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Lost Record Recovery Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s Maps Guide Tom, who first announced the problem<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(late Feb) with missing records in Maps and the subsequent fix<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(late April) has noted a work around for any records still not showing up in Map’s as a result of the problem:<\/p>\n

==========================================
\nTOPIC: Active listing not appearing? Try this!<\/a>
\n=========================================<\/p>\n

== 1 of 1 ==
\nDate: Mon, May 5 2008 3:52 pm
\nFrom: Maps Guide Tom<\/p>\n

Hi All,<\/p>\n

I know that there are reports that some listings aren’t appearing on
\nGoogle Maps, even though they have an “active” status and have been
\nverified with a PIN.<\/p>\n

If you’re still experiencing this problem, I have a workaround that
\nmay help get your listing to appear!<\/p>\n

First, search for your listing to ensure it’s really not appearing:
\n1. Go to maps.google.com and click “Find businesses” under the search\u00c2\u00a0box.
\n2. Enter the name of your business as it appears in your Local\u00c2\u00a0Business Center Account in the “What” field, and then the city\/state\u00c2\u00a0combination or zip\/postal code in the “Where” field.
\n3. Hit “Search Businesses”.<\/p>\n

If your listing appears, rejoice! Your listing is showing on Google
\nMaps. If your listing doesn’t appear in the search results, please try
\nthe following:<\/p>\n

1. Log in to your Local Business Center account at www.google.com\/local\/add
\n2. Click “Edit” next to the listing that isn’t appearing.
\n3. Without changing any business information, click “Finish”. You
\nwon’t need to re-verify your listing.
\n4. Wait 24 hours, and then check to see if your business listing is
\nappearing using the steps above.<\/p>\n

This should cause some business listings that aren’t showing to\u00c2\u00a0finally appear.<\/p>\n

For the successful creation of business listings, please, please\u00c2\u00a0remember these two points:<\/p>\n

1. This workaround should only be for listings that aren’t appearing\u00c2\u00a0but HAVE ALREADY BEEN VERIFIED and whose status is “Active” in the\u00c2\u00a0Local Business Center. Please don’t try this if you haven’t yet\u00c2\u00a0verified your listing.<\/p>\n

2. Don’t include non-address information in either the “Address Line\u00c2\u00a01” or “Address Line 2” of your listing. Including such information\u00c2\u00a0will create a problem with the listing and Google Maps’ algorithm\u00c2\u00a0won’t be able to place it, even if it appears as a correct location
\nwithin your account.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, this should clear up most issues about business listings\u00c2\u00a0disappearing. If you’ve performed the workaround and your listing\u00c2\u00a0still isn’t appearing, please let us know.<\/p>\n

Best,
\nMaps Guide Tom<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maps Guide Tom’s advice to first find your record seems self evident but it is not uncommon for posters in the Maps For Business Groups<\/a> to not really be sure if their record is in the Map’s index or not. This reflects both a user education issue AND an interface problem on Google’s part. A simple solution in the LBC<\/a> would be to instead of noting that the record is “Active” offer a choice to actually “View” the record in the index so users of the LBC would be confident that it is actually there. It would obviate the need for the record holders to know how to query maps and it would reduce the frequency of one of the most common questions in the support Group.<\/p>\n

It is intriguing to me that it is still necessary for a user to need to individually enter their LBC record and flag it so that Google knows to reindex it. Reminds me of the days of dBase\/Foxbase and having to\u00c2\u00a0spend the\u00c2\u00a0better part of a day reindexing when a computer crashed before you could get back to business. Hmmm, the more things change…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google’s Maps Guide Tom, who first announced the problem\u00c2\u00a0(late Feb) with missing records in Maps and the subsequent fix\u00c2\u00a0(late April) has noted a work around for any records still not showing up in Map’s as a result of the problem: ========================================== TOPIC: Active listing not appearing? Try this! ========================================= == 1 of 1 == Date: …<\/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-639","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\/639","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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}