{"id":17620,"date":"2014-12-19T12:28:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T16:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=17620"},"modified":"2014-12-19T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T16:29:12","slug":"yahoo-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-the-ability-to-remove-dupes-all-i-got-was-a-christmas-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/19\/yahoo-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-the-ability-to-remove-dupes-all-i-got-was-a-christmas-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo: All I Want For Christmas is the Ability to Remove Dupes – All I Got was a Christmas Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo sees fit to send me a Christmas card. My Christmas message to Yahoo: Save the Bandwidth and FIX YOUR PRODUCT.<\/p>\n

There was a post<\/a> in the Local U Forum the other day pleading for help with dupes at Yahoo. Here was Nyagoslav’s response:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is currently no way to remove duplicate listings on Yahoo! Local in a straightforward manner<\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n

The only two options would be:<\/em><\/p>\n

1) Remove or update the incorrect listing on the source site (most frequently ExpressUpdate, Localeze, or Yelp). Wait for the new information to make its way to Yahoo\u2019s local business database again, and hope that they will match this updated information with the outdated one, and will eventually update their outdated record. This might take\u2026 quite a while<\/em><\/p>\n

2) Claim the incorrect duplicate listing and then cancel it (see\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0how to do that). This, again, might take some time, especially if the only verification option might be \u201cby postcard\u201d, but it could very well be faster and safer than method 1 above. Of course, you would still need to make sure the business information is accurate on all the data source sites, too.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yahoo sees fit to send me a Christmas card. My Christmas message to Yahoo: Save the Bandwidth and FIX YOUR PRODUCT. There was a post in the Local U Forum the other day pleading for help with dupes at Yahoo. Here was Nyagoslav’s response: \u201cThere is currently no way to remove duplicate listings on Yahoo! …<\/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-17620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t