{"id":17807,"date":"2015-03-24T11:21:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=17807"},"modified":"2015-03-24T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:23:40","slug":"yext-powerlisting-scoring-gets-worse-when-listing-gets-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/24\/yext-powerlisting-scoring-gets-worse-when-listing-gets-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Yext PowerListing Scoring Gets Worse When Listing Gets Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yext Power Listing tool has often been useful to me to find bad NAP. I would caution others though that it is primarily a selling tool not a diagnostic one. And one that seems to be manipulated to increase your sense of discomfort EVEN when there is improving NAP.<\/p>\n<p>By Yext&#8217;s measures 18 Listings improved, 4 stayed the same with totally wrong name, 6 had the right name or close to the right name and showed no change between October and now.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in October 2014 it was scored at 37% error rate at Yext and in March 2015 it was scored with a 61% error rate DESPITE improving NAP (around the locations new name).<\/p>\n<p>Go figure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17809\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-Port-Comparison-Yext-794x1024.png\" alt=\"New Port Comparison Yext\" width=\"520\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-Port-Comparison-Yext-794x1024.png 794w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-Port-Comparison-Yext-155x200.png 155w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-Port-Comparison-Yext-465x600.png 465w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-Port-Comparison-Yext.png 849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17808\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-Port-Comparison-Yext-2.png\" alt=\"New Port Comparison Yext -2\" width=\"520\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-Port-Comparison-Yext-2.png 840w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-Port-Comparison-Yext-2-156x200.png 156w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-Port-Comparison-Yext-2-468x600.png 468w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-Port-Comparison-Yext-2-799x1024.png 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Still Bad, No Change<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo<br \/>\nMapquest<br \/>\nMerchant Circle<br \/>\nLocalDatabase<br \/>\nLocal Pages<\/p>\n<p>Improved<\/p>\n<p>Yelp (bad listing removed)<br \/>\nSuper Pages<br \/>\nCitySearch<br \/>\nLocal.com<br \/>\nFourSquare<br \/>\nDexKnows<br \/>\neLocal<br \/>\nCitySquars<br \/>\nYellow Moxie<br \/>\nTupalo<br \/>\nAvantar<br \/>\nYellowBot<br \/>\nWhere2<br \/>\nChamber of Commerce<br \/>\nAmericanTowns<br \/>\nFactual<br \/>\nYasabe<br \/>\nGetFave<\/p>\n<p>OK, no change<\/p>\n<p>Facebook<br \/>\nBing<br \/>\nWhite Pages<br \/>\nMojo Pages<br \/>\nCo-Pilot<br \/>\n8coupons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yext Power Listing tool has often been useful to me to find bad NAP. I would caution others though that it is primarily a selling tool not a diagnostic one. And one that seems to be manipulated to increase your sense of discomfort EVEN when there is improving NAP. By Yext&#8217;s measures 18 Listings improved, &#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-17807","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\/17807","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=17807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17811,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807\/revisions\/17811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}