{"id":715,"date":"2008-06-16T07:39:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T11:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=715"},"modified":"2008-06-16T22:33:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T02:33:50","slug":"google-maps-coupons-not-functioning-upgrade-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/16\/google-maps-coupons-not-functioning-upgrade-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps: Coupons not functioning; Upgrade coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 9:20 PM 6\/16\/08<\/strong>: As of this evening, the coupon feature started working again. I was even able to add an ending date. I received the following when posting a new coupon:
\n“Your coupon was successfully created and saved.
\nYour new coupon should appear on the details page for your listing in Google Maps within a few minutes<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Now if Google would just start promoting them! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The coupon creation function in the Local business Center has been broken for a number of days. Repeated reports<\/a> of the inability to create or modify a coupon have been flowing into the Google Maps for Business and the Google Maps Trouble Shooting Groups<\/a>. About June 10th, Coupons were able to be entered but stopped appearing<\/a> in Maps, on June 11th attempts at entry failed and generated a message<\/a> that the category and label you had entered were incorrect. Google, as of today, has not responded to the many queries in the Groups.<\/p>\n

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Google Coupons have been somewhat problematic<\/a> since their inception. Google has never properly promoted<\/a> nor displayed them adequately and expiration bugs have dogged the coupon system. As a result market uptake<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0of Google Coupons has been erratic at best.<\/p>\n

Given the update to the Local Business Center<\/a> late last week, it is possible that the error message noting the new need for a category and label precedes a much needed upgrade to the Coupon feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update 9:20 PM 6\/16\/08: As of this evening, the coupon feature started working again. I was even able to add an ending date. I received the following when posting a new coupon: “Your coupon was successfully created and saved. Your new coupon should appear on the details page for your listing in Google Maps within …<\/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-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t