{"id":4777,"date":"2011-09-08T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/google-places-and-fraud-prevention\/"},"modified":"2011-09-08T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:45:00","slug":"google-places-and-fraud-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/google-places-and-fraud-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Places and Fraud Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do online to make sure your<br \/>\ncompanys identity has a good reputation? Google Alerts? Google your company<br \/>\nname? Social media monitoring? These are all great identity verification tools<br \/>\nto use to make sure the information is accurate and to know what is being said<br \/>\nabout your company. But do you monitor your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/places\/\">Google Places<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>If you dont, you need to. Its childish, but<br \/>\nanybody can report your business as closed. Google hasnt released their<br \/>\nalgorithms or process as to how many times a business has to be reported as<br \/>\nclosed to be marked as permanently closed, but the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/06\/technology\/closed-in-error-on-google-places-merchants-seek-fixes.html?_r=1\">New<br \/>\nYork Times<\/a><\/em> reported that search consultant and blogger Mike Blumenthal<br \/>\nand a friend closed Googles offices in Mountain View, California with only a<br \/>\ncouple of clicks.<\/p>\n<p>Since this happened, Google has said they are<br \/>\nworking on providing better tools and <a href=\"https:\/\/electronicverificationsystems.com\/\">fraud prevention solutions<\/a><br \/>\nlike an email alert. However, it has not been executed. So this is why its<br \/>\nimportant to keep an eye on your companys Google Places page.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do online to make sure your companys identity has a good reputation? Google Alerts? Google your company name? Social media monitoring? These are all great identity verification tools to use to make sure the information is accurate and to know what is being said about your company. But do you monitor your<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/places\/\">Google Places<\/a>?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}