Comments on: Google Mapspam – Local Search Marketing goes wild http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/ Developing Knowledge about Local Search Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:35:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: mathewsteff http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-454772 mathewsteff Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:19:41 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/#comment-454772 Hi,

I think this is really a junk out there as since, many of those listings look like they are a perfect cake which is ready to be eaten!!!

But these many listings are really a spam so its better to go the natural way than using the black hat process. :)

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-231318 Mike Blumenthal Sun, 04 May 2008 03:23:22 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/#comment-231318 Cavan

Thanks for the heads up. Sure enough every last one is gone. I don’t think that these came through the bulk upload but via one of Google’s data suppliers not that we will ever really know.

Mike

]]> By: Nationwide Google Maps Spam…All Gone | CityMarketer.com http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-231316 Nationwide Google Maps Spam…All Gone | CityMarketer.com Sun, 04 May 2008 03:20:53 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/#comment-231316 [...] both Stephen Peron of Imnotadoctor.com and then Mike Blumenthal of blumenthals.com discussed some nationwide Google Maps spam by a company called Big Local. As of 4 PM (Mountain [...]

]]> By: Cavan Moon http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-231257 Cavan Moon Sun, 04 May 2008 00:34:46 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/#comment-231257 That’s been my experience Mike. Upon clicking the “more info” button, bulk uploaded listings should include an “add or edit your business” link and a “provided by the business owner” notice under each appropriate tab.

It appears that Google has pulled all of the Big Local listings with the exception of their Utah location. This must have been done in the last few hours as I was still seeing their results as late at 4:30p this afternoon.

]]> By: Google Mapspam Coming to a City Near You « LocalMN Blog http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-231147 Google Mapspam Coming to a City Near You « LocalMN Blog Sat, 03 May 2008 17:43:52 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/#comment-231147 [...] to Greg from Search Engine Land, others have written about this too including Mike from the Blumenthals blog, Stephen from I’mNotADoctor (I believe he was the first to find this), and Greg’s [...]

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-230898 Mike Blumenthal Fri, 02 May 2008 22:46:28 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/#comment-230898 Hi Cavan-

I am not that familiar with the specific attributes of records created via Google’s bulk upload but I was under the impression that once you uploaded them the Edit New! button would disappear and the details section of the record would indicate that the info was submitted by the business owner much like individually entered records. Is that the case?

Neither is the case with these records. Is it possible that they were bulk uploaded to some other party and appeared that way? I can find no other reference to them elsewhere on the internet though.

Mike

]]> By: Cavan Moon http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-230883 Cavan Moon Fri, 02 May 2008 22:13:35 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/#comment-230883 I wish I could say I’m surprised, but it seems the search engines are all struggling to defend against automated spam. The sad part is that this isn’t even particularly clever compared to some of the other large scale local spam we’ve seen. Oh, and a company selling search services should really try to spell “search” properly. :)

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-230820 Mike Blumenthal Fri, 02 May 2008 19:20:05 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/#comment-230820 Hi Justin/Kimber

I suppose it is a form of validation….I’d rather it came in some other form like an interview in the NY Times…but validation it is.

And Kimber, No the arrival is not surprising but it is surprising that this one, which appears automated, made it through the google gate keepers. I saw the Dallas one and it was a hand job, so to speak. In the Dallas one, it appeared that it was done with the agreement of the various local restaurants and when Google has some sort of verification on file they seem reluctant to pull it done. An example of that is the PayDay spam…still up there.

Mike

]]> By: Kimber Cook http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-230819 Kimber Cook Fri, 02 May 2008 19:14:23 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/#comment-230819 Hi Mike,

Wow, more Spam. Not surprising to me. A while back I pointed out the Comedy Defensive Driving (or just defensive driving) in Dallas spam listings where comedydefensivedriving.com has about 36 local listings.

I brought it up in the Google maps group, where maps guide jen said they’d look into it months ago but it’s still there.

]]> By: Justin http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-230816 Justin Fri, 02 May 2008 19:00:21 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/02/google-mapspam-local-search-marketing-goes-wild/#comment-230816 Oh, we can finally say, Local Search has arrived in our community.

I am surprised it has taken this long and I look forward and the resulting battles and subsequent improvements to come.

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