{"id":2665,"date":"2009-03-11T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T17:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2009-03-11T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T19:17:09","slug":"google-maps-hijacker-to-boss-oops-i-hijacked-the-wrong-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/11\/google-maps-hijacker-to-boss-oops-i-hijacked-the-wrong-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Hijacker to Boss: &#8220;Oops I hijacked the wrong business&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Locksmith industry brings out the worst in search marketing and where but New York City to get the worst of the worst? A recent trend in hijackings there and elsewhere across the country has been cross industry hijackings where a <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/10\/google-maps-lbc-claimed-business-listings-still-being-hijacked\/\">restaurant or hotel record is stolen<\/a> by a blackhat locksmith for the benefit of its many reviews.<\/p>\n<p>These hijackings are easy to spot because the volume of reviews is SO high compared to the rest of the listings in the 10-Pack. Note the listings marked with the arrows were hotels or restaurants in Google Maps once upon a time:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/10-pack-reviews.jpg\" alt=\"10-pack-reviews\" title=\"10-pack-reviews\" width=\"500\" height=\"301\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/10-pack-reviews.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/10-pack-reviews-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/10-pack-reviews-450x270.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But sometimes even the best of bad intentions can go woefully astray. This listing had 785 reviews and each was worst than the last&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Would you shop at a locksmith that couldn&#8217;t even steal a good business listing?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/reviews1.jpg\" alt=\"reviews1\" title=\"reviews1\" width=\"500\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/reviews1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/reviews1-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/reviews1-450x558.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to unhijack a listing? Otherwise this hijacker&#8217;s job should be on the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Locksmith industry brings out the worst in search marketing and where but New York City to get the worst of the worst? A recent trend in hijackings there and elsewhere across the country has been cross industry hijackings where a restaurant or hotel record is stolen by a blackhat locksmith for the benefit of &#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-2665","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\/2665","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=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}