{"id":9411,"date":"2011-03-02T16:35:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2011-03-02T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:35:04","slug":"google-places-pending-status-showing-up-erroneously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/02\/google-places-pending-status-showing-up-erroneously\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Places: Pending Status Showing Up Erroneously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have received several recent inquiries about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/places\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=174542\">Pending message<\/a> showing up on more Google Places accounts of late. According to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.406strategies.com\/2011\/03\/02\/google-places-glitch\/\">post<\/a> by John Audette of 406 Strategies, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.406strategies.com\/\">local internet marketing firm<\/a> in Bend, Or. it is a fairly widespread bug. From his post:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cPending \u2013 Being Reviewed. This listing needs to be reviewed further before appearing on Google. Please allow several weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We have checked with Google and they tell us it\u2019s a temporary glitch. Their phones are ringing off the hook and they promise to have it fixed soon.<\/p>\n<p>Normally the message means that your listing has gone in for additional scrutiny by Google but it appears to currently be a false positive on many listings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have received several recent inquiries about the Pending message showing up on more Google Places accounts of late. According to this post by John Audette of 406 Strategies, a local internet marketing firm in Bend, Or. it is a fairly widespread bug. From his post: \u201cPending \u2013 Being Reviewed. This listing needs to be &#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-9411","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\/9411","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=9411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9412,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions\/9412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}