Comments on: MapMaker Bots and What They Do http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/09/17/mapmaker-bots-and-what-they-do/ Developing Knowledge about Local Search Mon, 20 May 2013 21:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: earlpearl http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/09/17/mapmaker-bots-and-what-they-do/comment-page-1/#comment-581029 earlpearl Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:25:51 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=13464#comment-581029 Great list. Frankly we need more interaction with people like
Dan Austin. Its the only way to learn

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/09/17/mapmaker-bots-and-what-they-do/comment-page-1/#comment-580962 Mike Blumenthal Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:30:34 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=13464#comment-580962 @Ted

I guess we do have to worry about which Google bots are crawling Google. That’s a great way of looking at it.

I suspect as Google moves more towards the knowledge graph (as they have been doing with local) then it may become more so..

MapMaker is both arcane and buggy… most of those that are involved in the community stay in the community and very few seem to overlap with the SEO and marketing folks…. it reminds me more of DMOZ. :)

]]> By: Ted Ives http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/09/17/mapmaker-bots-and-what-they-do/comment-page-1/#comment-580961 Ted Ives Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:00:02 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=13464#comment-580961 So, now we have to worry not only about which Google bots are crawling our own websites, we have to worry about which Google bots are crawling Google?

;-)

It’s so hard keeping up with these guys, I just put this out a few short months ago and it’s already ancient history:
http://www.coconutheadphones.com/google-crawling-behavior/

Thanks for writing on this MapMaker stuff, there’s so little available on it so far, and it’s been so little covered by the media and bloggers, any info like this is like gold.

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