{"id":20631,"date":"2017-05-05T08:50:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T12:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=20631"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:17:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:17:50","slug":"google-spam-hall-of-shame-a-well-deserved-group-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/05\/google-spam-hall-of-shame-a-well-deserved-group-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Spam Hall of Shame – A Well Deserved Group Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s second Google Spam Hall of Shame<\/a> award goes to not one deserving business\u00a0but to a group, who have worked hard and persistently to achieve this honor (drum roll please….)- the personal injury lawyers<\/a> of the City of Orlando.<\/p>\n

This achievement, of having every listing(ok two\u00a0out of three1)<\/sup> in the 3 Pack<\/a> and the top six Local Finder<\/a> results be spammy, \u00a0took both persistence and a great deal of cooperation of spirit.2<\/sup><\/p>\n

So a word of warning to searchers in Orlando… don’t slip and fall outside your apartment building looking for your lost keys. Your Google search for locksmiths and injury attorneys will both only add cumulative insult to your already injured\u00a0person.<\/p>\n

Who knows what lurks in the reviews, marketing listings and virtual offices, I didn’t even bother to look but the frequency of suite #’s gives a clue.3<\/sup><\/p>\n

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1- I have learned<\/a> that listing number 3 is actually using a filed DBA, which brings up the whole issue of the world changing their business names to satisfy a “feature”\u00a0in Google’s algo. Which makes the whole situation even more absurd.\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n

2- Hmm. I get that personal injury cases are profitable and worth a little stretch to get them but is it really worth the rough digital equivalent of ambulance chasing? So much for ethics boards.\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n

3- These results, even though anecdotal, are clear evidence of the sheer lameness of Google’s spam white paper conclusions<\/a>. \u00a0All I can say is, its a good thing<\/a> that only 1\/2 of 1% of all of the Google listings are spammy and have been removed by them. Although I am not sure what you call what is left.\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s second Google Spam Hall of Shame award goes to not one deserving business\u00a0but to a group, who have worked hard and persistently to achieve this honor (drum roll please….)- the personal injury lawyers of the City of Orlando. This achievement, of having every listing(ok two\u00a0out of three1) in the 3 Pack and the …<\/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-20631","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\/20631","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=20631"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20643,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20631\/revisions\/20643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}