{"id":199,"date":"2007-08-23T13:05:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T17:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/what-should-google-about-mapspam\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T17:22:44","slug":"what-should-google-about-mapspam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/what-should-google-about-mapspam\/","title":{"rendered":"What should Google do about Mapspam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent spate of mapspam at Google left a lot of questions about the future of local:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Will spam define local&#8217;s future?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2How should Google respond to verified reports of Mapspam?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Is Google&#8217;s abuse reporting mechanism adequate?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2When and what technical changes will Google make to prevent future abuse?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2How can the integrity of maps data be guaranteed?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2How should the growing number of small businesses using search marketers pick the right company and interact with them?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2How effective is maps-based marketing?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Can Google maps expand to fulfill the legitimate business need expressed in spam?<\/p>\n<p>It is this last question I address at SearchEngineland:  <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/\">What should Google about Mapspam?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To Sphinn this article, go here: <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.searchengineland.com\/~f\/searchengineland?a=jesQP1z7\">SphinnIt <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent spate of mapspam at Google left a lot of questions about the future of local: \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Will spam define local&#8217;s future? \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2How should Google respond to verified reports of Mapspam? \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Is Google&#8217;s abuse reporting mechanism adequate? \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2When and what technical changes will Google make to prevent future abuse? \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2How can the integrity of maps &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}