{"id":7236,"date":"2010-09-07T08:16:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:22:45","slug":"facebook-places-where-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/facebook-places-where-are-they\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Places &#8211; Where are they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_0511.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_0511-448x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Community Bank Olean NY\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do a popular\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avantegardens.com\/\">Anaheim florist<\/a>, a prominent law office in a large urban area, a rural<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blumenthals.com\"> web development firm<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/place?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Community+bank+olean+ny&amp;fb=1&amp;gl=us&amp;hq=Community+bank&amp;hnear=Olean,+NY&amp;cid=12489841186184219881&amp;ei=FSqGTLaCPMLflgetnpCNDw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=5&amp;ved=0CCoQnQIwBA\">large retail bank\/atm<\/a> location all have in common?<\/p>\n<p>They all are in the Localeze index and yet Facebook Places does not know about their existence. Why this occurs and how many businesses are missing from FB Places isn&#8217;t totally clear. Given my experience, the phenomena is fairly widespread and affects some significant number of businesses in the U.S. in both rural and urban environments.<\/p>\n<p>Indications are that Localeze has provided Facebook with a full data set of their index so they seem to be off the hook. Either Facebook has chosen to surface some businesses and not others or more likely, they are still struggling with the technology to match a mobile user with the many Places that are in a mobile user&#8217;s immediate vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless it means that every business needs to get their hands on a mobile phone and verify whether Facebook  finds your Place and if not struggle through the mobile interface to add your Facebook Place page.<\/p>\n<p>I am trying to understand why this is happening so if you have insight into either Facebook&#8217;s technology, their policies, or \u00a0the limits and difficulties of coding for check-ins and can shed light on this phenomena, I would love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do a popular\u00a0Anaheim florist, a prominent law office in a large urban area, a rural web development firm and a large retail bank\/atm location all have in common? They all are in the Localeze index and yet Facebook Places does not know about their existence. Why this occurs and how many businesses are missing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-mobil","category-local-social"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236","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=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22461,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions\/22461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}