{"id":8979,"date":"2011-01-24T07:40:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T11:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2011-01-24T08:53:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T12:53:21","slug":"google-places-tightens-up-verification-for-new-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/24\/google-places-tightens-up-verification-for-new-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Places Tightens Up Verification Process for New Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/google-places-tidbits-and-quirks\/\">reported<\/a> that a number of folks were only seeing the post card verification option and no phone verification when entering new businesses in the Google Places Dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>In the forums Google <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/Places\/thread?tid=4bc728383c62ef43&#038;hl=en&#038;fid=4bc728383c62ef4300049a9372155422\">noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Hi all,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I understand there have been some recent questions about verification methods. If a business is new to Google, certain verification methods may be unavailable depending on the information provided for the business.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever Google wants to maximize their trust level in a listing they will request post card verification as it offers them the highest confidence that the listing is real. <\/p>\n<p>The phone verification option is only available now when Google has strong confidence about the listing data. It appears that Google has &#8220;upped the ante&#8221; in this regard particularly in relation to new business listings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I reported that a number of folks were only seeing the post card verification option and no phone verification when entering new businesses in the Google Places Dashboard. In the forums Google noted: Hi all, I understand there have been some recent questions about verification methods. If a business is new to Google, &#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-8979","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\/8979","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=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8988,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions\/8988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}