Recent content by Sara Garrison

From what we've seen, marking a location as open in the dash when it's incorrectly closed clears the flag in about 48-72 hrs. In our experience, this is much faster than reporting the listing as open on Maps. Edit: Some listings in the dash don't give you the option to clear the perm closed...

Thanks for posting, Linda! Since you asked, there are a couple of other recent changes in GMBL. Don't think these have already been posted, but apologies if they were. Lat/Long is back in the feed spec. It was removed from bulk feeds back in Aug 2014 because Google received too much bad data...

For now at least, a brand and address specific search will still result in a single local result for the listing I want, from which you can still access the G+ page link. So for example if I search "Seattle Chiropractic 3611 Woodland Park Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103" on Google I see this...

We've seen this in upgraded Google accounts since 10/10 as well and it works great. So far, our favorite feature of the new "Google Updates" functionality is that a feed/spreadsheet update will override the Google Update. This is in contrast to how the previous Data Conflicts functionality...

Exciting! We've got a few upgraded clients so far with the new G+ listings, social features, and multi-admin capabilities. LONG awaited!!!

@Cody, here's what Google says about that field: Google Account Manager: List the name or email address of any Google contact you have been working with. It is important for consistency and continuity across Google products to keep your Account Manager aware of your Google Places for...

A note on the staged upgrade process. We have several clients (all of our clients are enterprise, bulk users) whose Google Places accounts have been "upgraded" to the new, faster data pipeline for updates to listings. These accounts are distinguished by having the status of listings on Maps in...