These are the same guys recently blasted off Google in the last few days. 6300+ reviews and look at the names number up anyone?

I did notice since the Google map maker editor that will remain nameless that the spammy ones have gone to pay per click listings.

Thanks for the clarification. It is a sign that Yahoo Local lives… a good thing for us all.

I agree that locksmith listings are spammy. But my point is that you don’t get affected by the locksmith listings any more when you use other queries (e.g., watch repair). That is an algorithmic enhancement.

More robust maybe… but robust enough? This search result looks pretty spammy.

No, those reviews are still there (http://local.yahoo.com/results;_ylt=AqsAH60C3bsMoK2r08pHtpWHNcIF;_ylv=3?p=locksmith&csz=Boulder,+CO). So, it must be the algorithm change. It is now much more robust to the review spam.

Totally agree with you! see what’s going on here- http://local.yahoo.com/results?p=locksmith&csz=oakland

As I undersatand it, Yahoo Local did not update it’s algorithm rather simply erased the reviews that were reported with their ‘Report Abuse’ tool.

I guess Yahoo knows that most people don’t understand these reviews are spam(!!!) and so people still search in Yahoo quite often(a blog spot by PureSheer)! Why to change it if it works?!?!?!

Yahoo search for Watch Repair Boulder Co

I manage lasvegasescorts [dot] com and had outsourced the local seo for a few years now but the gentleman that was handling our local listing explained our two listings were being merged together with our competitor (candyapplegirls [dot] com) because of the proximity of our addresses. The city only allows these companies to operate in certain areas of the cities so many of them are in the same building (3135 Industrial Road) but in different suites, the companies address of our site is 3135 Industrial Road Suite #210 and our competitor is Suite #213, if you do a search for Las Vegas Escorts 3135 it will pull up a list of businesses in that building, all of which are this companies local listings, in fact all of his local listings have a girl appended to the email address of the domain e.g. girl@domainA.com, girl@domainB.com, or girls@ or thegirls@, etc. Also, each of those domains listed have a record via domaintools that they were in fact owned by the same person prior to the domains going into private registration.

Hoping you may offer to shed some light on this Mike.

Can we see the search that brings up all of the spam?