Recent content by Andrew Huskinson

With regards to Categories. The default list is not complete and there is no way to suggest additions. Over a year ago EthanR said he would ask for such a feature if I made a post asking for it and I did. I assume some intern scraped the list from somewhere. Surely Categories are keywords in...

It may be an engineers attempt to recover from a hiccup which caused a lot of Reviews to disappear and they forgot to check for duplicates. I have been posting test reviews to the big thread on lost reviews and all have shown and the first 14 accepted Edits as well. Only the first poster has...

Why can not Google just provide an un-verify option if you click on the verified icon? They seem incapable of considering their users. When the merge option was introduced there should have been some validation on the entry to check the user only had one location and the address was not...

When I was posting in the forum earlier this year about Closing location issues I did ask that google 'merge' old web directory data we cannot get at with the Closed entry. I had been asking for a long time for a 'stop list' feature where we could that. At least google have tidied up a life...

There are two sorts of pages at the moment available to you: A Google+ Page which appears for a search and which is driven by a selection of data from the Places entry. In the case you posit: We are in the UK, we have lots of clients that are 'local' in that they have an...

It does not mean it cannot be done. I suppose it would be more relevant for a SME with a few locations and who needs to compete on service rather than price.

My research on the review spam filter issue seems to indicate that a trusted reviewer can leave an Excellent review for an honest business but not for one google have down-ranked for their spam. Where an Exscellent one is deleted from search and the reviewers Local - Your Places - # Reviews...

At the moment you still need to make a Places entry to get a Google+ page showing in a normal search and to get the blue Write a Review button. If you do try to merge the +Local Business page with the Google+ page and succeed you will se an additional red Follow button on the search result...

The business can only have one Places entry driving a Google+ page at its office/unit location. And there can only be one +Local Business page to match that Google+ page. Overall there needs to be a +Profile page in an individuals name. A corporate email as it needs to be persistent. If that...

You need to decide who is to manage the + content and where. Are you going to have one manager managing the brand? Is your 'networking' done by a blogger, consultant or a principal? Are your location managers capable of interacting with the clients? It would help if you could give the...

Same lil bit of doubt with Road vs Rd, Drive vs Dr, Lane vs Ln, Suite vs Ste vs #, etc... They are stored in Map Maker in full so enter them in full. Google abbreviates then when served up, even on the PIN Post Card, in order to save on resources.

After Lindas experience I would move all Places entries from sensitive email accounts to new emails, Keenan says Places @ domain.com if available or some free email.

On a thread looking at an address starting '1-4' in Dublin Flash said hyphenated street nos were not supported in Maps. My tests in Maps navigating to the address showed that '1-4' was parsed to 4 for the search. So I advised to use 1 only, or 4 if that affects Street View. I expect real post...