Comments on: Google Maps Local Listing Ad Spam & Other Notes

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:00:09 +0000

@John

Tha’ts correct

By: John

John — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:45:12 +0000

Local Listing Ads are no longer offered, right? Are Tags the only paid maps option currently?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:04:50 +0000

Given that Google explicitly prohibits the use of a po box in their guidelines and seems to bury them when they are used, I would suggest that there is no sustainable way of maximizing their local search potential.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:57:33 +0000

Hello,

I have a number of small-business clients that operate out of their homes and have a PO Box ….

What are your thoughts on maximizing their local search potential w/ a PO Box mailing address?

Thank you!
Charlie

By: Google Maps Local Listing Advertising

Google Maps Local Listing Advertising — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:18:58 +0000

[...] starting to monetize their Google Business Listings, they will start to clean them up from all the spam. I always figured the reason why support and spam clean-up on the Google Maps was poor is because [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:16:55 +0000

With Google updating their ranking algo in early October, business name cramming has had less impact on the 7 Pac rankings.

But as they make choice real estate highly visible for a fee and the perhaps simpler adwords ranking algo this problem is resurfacing.

By: PureSheer

PureSheer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:06:37 +0000

The locksmiths ads are there for something like 3-4 weeks. Both in S.D & in S.F most of the ads belong to spammers.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:00:11 +0000

As far as spam goes in the new Local Listing Ads, Miriam just blogged about 3 phony locals appearing in the locksmith category in San Diego. The good news is that the spammers appear to have been cleaned out of the 7 pack. I'm seeing more and more keyword stuffing in business titles across the boards and it does not appear to negatively impact the listings - in fact, the affect is quite the opposite.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:59:48 +0000

Whitefish, schmitefish….I am a smoke salmon and bially man myself.

By: Whitefish

Whitefish — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:54:38 +0000

Its too bad about the name requirement. Mike: If you were to list in local ads for SEO/web marketing….you could use a title such as

Google Maps Spam Fighter instead of the more mundane but “legal name” Blumenthals. IMHO G Maps Spam Fighter would be far more appropriate and garner more attention.