{"id":3961,"date":"2009-06-23T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2009-06-23T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T12:54:17","slug":"google-maps-desperation-what-advice-would-you-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/23\/google-maps-desperation-what-advice-would-you-give\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Desperation: What advice would you give?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I post in the Google Maps Help forums and regularly receive emails from other forum readers. I received this one yesterday asking for advice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Hi Mike,<br \/>\nI wanted to thank you for your contributions to the various, un-centralized (Mapspam) threads on Google about this topic.  In a way, it seems like you are the only one reading the complaints!\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I won&#8217;t bore you with the details, but I am another small business owner suffering because of a google-map manipulator\/spammer.  I have read your blog, and thank you for writing it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Do you have any advice for getting Google to pay attention to the spam reports I have been sending in? At this point, my business is providing the only paycheck for my family of four, and the spammers are driving us out of business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Thanks in advance for any help you could offer,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Laurel (bellastella)<br \/>\nPortland, OR\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Besides Self-immolation in front of the Google&#8217;s Headquarters, what advice would you give her to get Google to pay attention?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I post in the Google Maps Help forums and regularly receive emails from other forum readers. I received this one yesterday asking for advice.\u00a0 Hi Mike, I wanted to thank you for your contributions to the various, un-centralized (Mapspam) threads on Google about this topic. In a way, it seems like you are the only &#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-3961","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\/3961","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=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3968,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions\/3968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}