{"id":4533,"date":"2009-09-29T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2009-09-29T10:53:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T14:53:55","slug":"big-boobs-bounce-back-to-top-of-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/big-boobs-bounce-back-to-top-of-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Boobs Bounce Back to Top of Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Google Maps has been enforcing spam penalties more rigorously. Even Locksmith results seem to be improving.<\/p>\n<p>So it was surprising to see a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/maps\/thread?tid=775109302d37a050&amp;hl=en\">report in the forums<\/a> that the Authoritative OneBox was showing for this very broad search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=breast+augmentation+new+jersey&amp;btnG=Search&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=\">Breast Augmentation New Jersey <\/a>. Not only was it a <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/is-google-showing-the-authoritative-onebox-more-often\/\">single listing on a broad category search<\/a> which has been a topic of recent concern, it showed for a statewide search phrase.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/breast1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4558\" title=\"breast1\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/breast1.jpg\" alt=\"breast1\" width=\"520\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/breast1.jpg 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/breast1-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/breast1-450x322.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What was equally surpising was that this plastic surgeon was also showing a statewide Authoritative One Box results from the same address and phone number for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=tummy+tucks+new+jersey&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=\">Tummy Tucks<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=breast+implants+new+jersey&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=\">Breast Implants<\/a> and showing 3 Packs for  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=liposuction+new+jersey&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=g-m1\">Liposuction<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=abdominoplasty+new+jersey&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=\">Abdominoplasty<\/a>. Upon investigation Dr Racanelli had 5 listngs for <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;abauth=99d08f29:dPFcx37N6H82kr1WWijUFOav2UQ&amp;sll=0.000000,0.000000&amp;view=text&amp;gl=us&amp;q=drracanelli.com%2022%20Old%20Short&amp;hl=en&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wl\">his one address<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;abauth=325055e9:xOrIjIk91FAIY1DgyE4dK1rHHgQ&amp;sll=0.000000,0.000000&amp;view=text&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;q=drracanelli.com&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wl\">more spam<\/a> at a second address.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture-56.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture-56.png\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture-55.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Picture 55\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture-55.png\" alt=\"Picture 55\" width=\"520\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had not seen this sort of spam since the wild west days of <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/its-not-your-mothers-yellow-pages-brain-injured-in-ca\/\">Brain Injured Lawyers in LA<\/a> last year. Did Google&#8217;s spam filters break down or has their OneBox algo gone amuck? Or maybe a West Coast SEO moved east? Who knows but the results are not worthy of Google.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, clearly it is spam and it is accentuated by the recent trend of <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/is-google-showing-the-authoritative-onebox-more-often\/\">displaying the Authoritative OneBox<\/a> front and center on very broad search terms. This single piece of spam would have been much less offensive if shown in the 10-Pack.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture-56.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture-56.png\" alt=\"Picture 56\" width=\"520\" height=\"850\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Google Maps has been enforcing spam penalties more rigorously. Even Locksmith results seem to be improving. So it was surprising to see a report in the forums that the Authoritative OneBox was showing for this very broad search for Breast Augmentation New Jersey . Not only was it a single listing on a broad &#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-4533","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\/4533","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=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}