{"id":16961,"date":"2014-07-31T15:16:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T19:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=16961"},"modified":"2014-07-31T15:24:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T19:24:58","slug":"google-pigeon-poo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/google-pigeon-poo\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Pigeon Poo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With every update from Google\u00a0we often get artifacts that are very annoying. With the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/google-updates-local-algo-with-more-web-based-signals-turmoil-in-serps\/\">Pigeon Local Update<\/a> we have our share of Pigeon Poo. Barry Schwartz <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/expedia-becomes-new-york-city-hotel-googles-pigeon-local-update-198339\">pointed<\/a> out the inclusion of Expedia\u00a0in the carousel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiStefano\/status\/494272771007188992\/photo\/1\">Stefano Romero<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Michael%20Ehline&amp;src=typd\">Mike Ehline<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalseoconsulting.com\/\">Casey Meraz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thedavidperez\/status\/494903388492922880\/photo\/1\">David Perez<\/a> have all <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thedavidperez\/status\/494903388492922880\/photo\/1\">pointed<\/a> out <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiStefano\/status\/494272771007188992\/photo\/1\">similar<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/circleoflegaltrust.com\/googles-local-pigeon-big-big-legal-directories-are-law-firms\/\">equally bad examples<\/a> of Pigeon Poo type results.\u00a0Here we have Avvo as a PI Lawyer and ZocDoc as a dentist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ZocDoc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16964\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ZocDoc-520x582.jpg\" alt=\"ZocDoc\" width=\"520\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ZocDoc-520x582.jpg 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ZocDoc-178x200.jpg 178w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ZocDoc.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pi-la.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/avvo.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/large-pi-las.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16968\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/large-pi-las-520x247.jpg\" alt=\"large-pi-las\" width=\"520\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/large-pi-las-520x247.jpg 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/large-pi-las-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/large-pi-las.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pi-la1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With every update from Google\u00a0we often get artifacts that are very annoying. With the Pigeon Local Update we have our share of Pigeon Poo. Barry Schwartz pointed out the inclusion of Expedia\u00a0in the carousel. Stefano Romero, Mike Ehline, Casey Meraz and David Perez have all pointed out similar, equally bad examples of Pigeon Poo type &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16970,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961\/revisions\/16970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}