<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Lead Finder: Guides and data</title><description>Practical writing on extracting business data from Google Maps: grid coverage, export workflows, cost modelling and data quality.</description><link>https://gmapdataextractorsoftware.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Why Google Maps Stops at 120 Results (And How Grids Fix It)</title><link>https://gmapdataextractorsoftware.com/blog/google-maps-120-result-limit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gmapdataextractorsoftware.com/blog/google-maps-120-result-limit/</guid><description>Google Maps caps a single search at about 120 listings however many businesses exist. Why that ceiling is there, and the grid method that gets past it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Choosing a Grid Cell Size for Google Maps Extraction</title><link>https://gmapdataextractorsoftware.com/blog/grid-cell-size-google-maps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gmapdataextractorsoftware.com/blog/grid-cell-size-google-maps/</guid><description>Too coarse and dense cells silently truncate at the 120 cap; too fine and the sweep takes hours it did not need. The arithmetic for getting cell size right.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Service-Area Businesses: The Hidden Half of Google Maps</title><link>https://gmapdataextractorsoftware.com/blog/service-area-businesses-hidden-half/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gmapdataextractorsoftware.com/blog/service-area-businesses-hidden-half/</guid><description>SABs (plumbers, cleaners, mobile locksmiths) can hide their address, and whole categories are mostly SABs. What that does to your export and how to work with it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Place ID Is the Most Useful Column in Your Export</title><link>https://gmapdataextractorsoftware.com/blog/place-id-most-useful-column/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gmapdataextractorsoftware.com/blog/place-id-most-useful-column/</guid><description>The one column nobody looks at is the one that makes de-duplication, refresh diffs and closure detection actually work. What a place ID is and how to use it.</description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Claimed vs Unclaimed Listings: The Signal in the Gap</title><link>https://gmapdataextractorsoftware.com/blog/claimed-vs-unclaimed-listings/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gmapdataextractorsoftware.com/blog/claimed-vs-unclaimed-listings/</guid><description>Google auto-creates listings nobody manages. Telling claimed from unclaimed rows in an export, and why the unclaimed tail is the best prospect pool in local.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Google Maps Business Data Is Actually Worth Trusting</title><link>https://gmapdataextractorsoftware.com/blog/google-maps-data-quality/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gmapdataextractorsoftware.com/blog/google-maps-data-quality/</guid><description>Field-by-field: which Google Maps columns are reliable, which decay fastest, and how to clean an extracted list before anyone on your team calls a single number.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>