{"id":5449,"date":"2009-12-07T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T15:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2009-12-07T13:36:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T17:36:40","slug":"google-maps-new-abuses-via-wikipedia-landing-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/google-maps-new-abuses-via-wikipedia-landing-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps &#8211; New abuses via Wikipedia landing pages?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have received several reports from the locksmith industry (who else?) and elsewhere of a new &#8220;black hat&#8221; ranking tactic that seems to push listings to the top of the 7 Pack by using a Wikipedia webpage as the Map&#8217;s landing page.  <\/p>\n<p>For example, the links on the search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/#hl=en&#038;q=locksmiths+toronto+ON&#038;aq=f&#038;aqi=&#038;oq=&#038;fp=be5ffa94030d2d34\">Locksmith Toronto ON<\/a> head off to Wikipedia location pages (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ontario\">Ontario<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toronto\">Toronto<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scarborough,_Ontario\">Scarborough, Ontario<\/a>) that one presumes have a very strong default <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/08\/what-is-location-prominence\/\">Location Prominence<\/a> ranking. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/locksmith-toronto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/locksmith-toronto-520x294.jpg\" alt=\"locksmith-toronto\" title=\"locksmith-toronto\" width=\"520\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/locksmith-toronto-520x294.jpg 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/locksmith-toronto-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/locksmith-toronto.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have received several reports from the locksmith industry (who else?) and elsewhere of a new &#8220;black hat&#8221; ranking tactic that seems to push listings to the top of the 7 Pack by using a Wikipedia webpage as the Map&#8217;s landing page. For example, the links on the search for Locksmith Toronto ON head off &#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-5449","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\/5449","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=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}