Comments on: Yahoo Affiliate Mapspam now gone http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/04/06/yhoo-affiliate-mapspam-now-gone/ Developing Knowledge about Local Search Sat, 25 May 2013 22:21:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Eric Enge: Frazier Miller and Shailesh Bhat Interview on Yahoo Local | Developing Knowledge about Local Search http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/04/06/yhoo-affiliate-mapspam-now-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-263603 Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Eric Enge: Frazier Miller and Shailesh Bhat Interview on Yahoo Local | Developing Knowledge about Local Search Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:29:19 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/04/06/yhoo-affiliate-mapspam-now-gone/#comment-263603 [...] – They are validating the business URL to prevent showing an intermediary business (and prevent affiliate fraud). [...]

]]> By: Favorite Posts of the Week - All Local - With a Mapspam and Video Twist « LocalMN Blog http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/04/06/yhoo-affiliate-mapspam-now-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-222924 Favorite Posts of the Week - All Local - With a Mapspam and Video Twist « LocalMN Blog Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:34:34 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/04/06/yhoo-affiliate-mapspam-now-gone/#comment-222924 [...] Blumenthal writes on how Yahoo affiliate Mapspam is now gone. For anyone unfamiliar, these local results have been loaded with affiliate sites to local [...]

]]> By: Local Search Updates - Yahoo and Google — eClick Performance Blog http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/04/06/yhoo-affiliate-mapspam-now-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-222832 Local Search Updates - Yahoo and Google — eClick Performance Blog Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:18:18 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/04/06/yhoo-affiliate-mapspam-now-gone/#comment-222832 [...] Mike noted that the map spam seems to be cleaned up (I wonder why they would spend time changing this when it wasn’t a problem to begin with). I [...]

]]> By: morgan http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/04/06/yhoo-affiliate-mapspam-now-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-220643 morgan Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:53:57 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/04/06/yhoo-affiliate-mapspam-now-gone/#comment-220643 I can only imagine this being benign if it went through several different advertisers and/or companies. First, if the advertising company sold it, it would have to bounce through their URL to count for a click, and then it would have to bounce through the affiliate’s URL to count for a click for them too. However, if the affiliate bit off more than he or she could chew, I could imagine them farming it out to other affiliates, sort of a middle, middleman, and the link would then have to bounce through their URLs as well.

This does seem to be a bit of a stretch to me though, and I can’t easily imagine it going through more than two different URLs prior to landing on the final destination.

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