Comments on: The Longtail of Local Search Mapspam http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-longtail-of-local-search-mapspam/ Developing Knowledge about Local Search Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:37:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Google Maps: Multilingual Mapspam in LA | Developing Knowledge about Local Search http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-longtail-of-local-search-mapspam/comment-page-1/#comment-236948 Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Google Maps: Multilingual Mapspam in LA | Developing Knowledge about Local Search Sun, 18 May 2008 15:38:46 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=654#comment-236948 [...] I followed up with some examples of the Mapspam that were dominating the Local OneBoxes in the legal and plastic surgery industries in Southern [...] [...] I followed up with some examples of the Mapspam that were dominating the Local OneBoxes in the legal and plastic surgery industries in Southern [...]

]]> By: Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Google Maps Policy: Multiple Listings at a Single Address a No Go | Developing Knowledge about Local Search http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-longtail-of-local-search-mapspam/comment-page-1/#comment-235694 Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Google Maps Policy: Multiple Listings at a Single Address a No Go | Developing Knowledge about Local Search Fri, 16 May 2008 17:47:29 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=654#comment-235694 [...] Guide Jen, in a comment posted in response to the article The Longtail of Local Search Mapspam, has indicated that multiple [...] [...] Guide Jen, in a comment posted in response to the article The Longtail of Local Search Mapspam, has indicated that multiple [...]

]]> By: Jen Chin http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-longtail-of-local-search-mapspam/comment-page-1/#comment-235688 Jen Chin Fri, 16 May 2008 17:14:51 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=654#comment-235688 Hi Mike, I'll pass on your additional comments regarding our policies on spam in Google Maps. We take your feedback very seriously, and I think it's fair to say that we don't want to see search results where multiple listings show up for the same business location. Those types of search results aren't useful in any way for our users, whom we care most about. Thanks! Jen Hi Mike,

I’ll pass on your additional comments regarding our policies on spam in Google Maps. We take your feedback very seriously, and I think it’s fair to say that we don’t want to see search results where multiple listings show up for the same business location. Those types of search results aren’t useful in any way for our users, whom we care most about.

Thanks!
Jen

]]> By: Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Rebranding your business for fun and profit in Maps | Developing Knowledge about Local Search http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-longtail-of-local-search-mapspam/comment-page-1/#comment-234595 Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Rebranding your business for fun and profit in Maps | Developing Knowledge about Local Search Wed, 14 May 2008 02:44:45 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=654#comment-234595 [...] mucking around in the bowels of local search marketing for laywers in LA, I had an interesting interchange with [...] [...] mucking around in the bowels of local search marketing for laywers in LA, I had an interesting interchange with [...]

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-longtail-of-local-search-mapspam/comment-page-1/#comment-234578 Mike Blumenthal Wed, 14 May 2008 00:37:21 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=654#comment-234578 Miriam Your comment also struck a nerve with me and I thought "cut rate plastic surgeon". One of the great oxymorons...which lead me to breast englargment which lead me to....wondering just how far "weird SEO" might go.... Stay tuned :) Mike Miriam

Your comment also struck a nerve with me and I thought “cut rate plastic surgeon”. One of the great oxymorons…which lead me to breast englargment which lead me to….wondering just how far “weird SEO” might go….

Stay tuned :)

Mike

]]> By: MiriamEllis http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-longtail-of-local-search-mapspam/comment-page-1/#comment-234508 MiriamEllis Tue, 13 May 2008 21:29:51 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=654#comment-234508 "But what client in their right mind would choose a lawyer based on the search “LA Dog Bite Attorney”? It seems to cater to the underclasses." I don't know why, exactly, but that really made me laugh. It's true, Mike! Somehow, it reminds me of those eBay adwords plugs "Buy New & Used Dog At EBay" The artifice of crummy and weird SEO at work. Mim “But what client in their right mind would choose a lawyer based on the search “LA Dog Bite Attorney”? It seems to cater to the underclasses.”

I don’t know why, exactly, but that really made me laugh.

It’s true, Mike!

Somehow, it reminds me of those eBay adwords plugs “Buy New & Used Dog At EBay”

The artifice of crummy and weird SEO at work.
Mim

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-longtail-of-local-search-mapspam/comment-page-1/#comment-234455 Mike Blumenthal Tue, 13 May 2008 18:51:22 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=654#comment-234455 @Steve Gotcha... he made that statement at <a href="http://searchengineland.com/080211-070058.php" rel="nofollow">SMX Local</a> last October, it didn't make much sense then or when I wrote about it in <a href="http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/02/11/local-links-of-interest-33/" rel="nofollow">in February</a>. I have heard no retraction or restatement from them. He actually (according to Chris Silver Smith) recommended a Mail stop or PO Box not an address in a park: <em>He essentially said that they should try to get an address in the city because Google did not display businesses that didn't have addresses—after all, he quipped, one can't pinpoint something without an address on the map. He suggested that those businesses could rent a post box to accomplish this.</em> So I guess even Google has standards in these sort of things :) Mike @Steve

Gotcha… he made that statement at SMX Local last October, it didn’t make much sense then or when I wrote about it in in February. I have heard no retraction or restatement from them.

He actually (according to Chris Silver Smith) recommended a Mail stop or PO Box not an address in a park:

He essentially said that they should try to get an address in the city because Google did not display businesses that didn’t have addresses—after all, he quipped, one can’t pinpoint something without an address on the map. He suggested that those businesses could rent a post box to accomplish this.

So I guess even Google has standards in these sort of things :)

Mike

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-longtail-of-local-search-mapspam/comment-page-1/#comment-234446 Mike Blumenthal Tue, 13 May 2008 18:24:52 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=654#comment-234446 Hi Earl Yes, I they are leased spaces in each of the major towns around LA etc. This technique was used pre Google to get local phone numbers, addresses etc in the YP directories. This area of law generates particularly grotesque advtertising I agree. But what client in their right mind would choose a lawyer based on the search "LA Dog Bite Attorney"? It seems to cater to the underclasses. Mike Hi Earl

Yes, I they are leased spaces in each of the major towns around LA etc. This technique was used pre Google to get local phone numbers, addresses etc in the YP directories.

This area of law generates particularly grotesque advtertising I agree. But what client in their right mind would choose a lawyer based on the search “LA Dog Bite Attorney”? It seems to cater to the underclasses.

Mike

]]> By: earlpearl http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-longtail-of-local-search-mapspam/comment-page-1/#comment-234444 earlpearl Tue, 13 May 2008 18:18:31 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=654#comment-234444 Mike: I leased office space. A lawyer, or law firm does not have 24 locations in a metropolitan region. I'm sure the 24 locations is an effort to spam local. Could be for neighborhoods or sections of the greater LA region. That is a bogus representation. There was a day when lawyers couldn't advertise. Now the advertising is grotesque....and spammy. Mike:

I leased office space. A lawyer, or law firm does not have 24 locations in a metropolitan region. I’m sure the 24 locations is an effort to spam local. Could be for neighborhoods or sections of the greater LA region. That is a bogus representation.

There was a day when lawyers couldn’t advertise. Now the advertising is grotesque….and spammy.

]]> By: Steve Espinosa http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-longtail-of-local-search-mapspam/comment-page-1/#comment-234402 Steve Espinosa Tue, 13 May 2008 15:30:46 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=654#comment-234402 @ Mike Mike Jones = CTO Google Maps I was wondering if what he said about pointing your address to a park if you want to be found in that city is still allowed. I was stating that the keyword stuffing and abuse of the business name is obviously spam. @ Mike

Mike Jones = CTO Google Maps

I was wondering if what he said about pointing your address to a park if you want to be found in that city is still allowed.

I was stating that the keyword stuffing and abuse of the business name is obviously spam.

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