{"id":731,"date":"2008-07-11T10:43:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=731"},"modified":"2008-07-11T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T14:53:09","slug":"google-lbc-upgrades-business-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/google-lbc-upgrades-business-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Google LBC Upgrades Business Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has recently added a new feature (hats off to Martijn for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martijnbeijk.com\/email-preferences-local-business-center\/ \">heads up<\/a> on this) to the Local Business Center allowing a business to receive more communication from Google. Of particular interest is the option to &#8220;Receive notifications when changes are made to your business listings.&#8221; These preferences can be changed at any time going forward in the &#8220;settings&#8221; area of the LBC.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear exactly what types of changes are covered but one would hope that it would include new reviews and updated information. In theory, this will allow a business a much better feedback loop on their listings and offers the beginning of a glimpse of the possibility of using the Local Business Center for customer relations management.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lbc-upgrade.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lbc-upgrade.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lbc-upgrade\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lbc-upgrade.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lbc-upgrade-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has recently added a new feature (hats off to Martijn for the heads up on this) to the Local Business Center allowing a business to receive more communication from Google. Of particular interest is the option to &#8220;Receive notifications when changes are made to your business listings.&#8221; These preferences can be changed at any &#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-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google has recently added a new feature (hats off to Martijn for the heads up on this) to the Local Business Center allowing a business to receive more communication from Google. 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