{"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 – New abuses via Wikipedia landing pages?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have received several reports from the locksmith industry (who else?) and elsewhere of a new “black hat” ranking tactic that seems to push listings to the top of the 7 Pack by using a Wikipedia webpage as the Map’s landing page. <\/p>\n

For example, the links on the search for Locksmith Toronto ON<\/a> head off to Wikipedia location pages (Ontario<\/a>, Toronto<\/a> & Scarborough, Ontario<\/a>) that one presumes have a very strong default Location Prominence<\/a> ranking. <\/p>\n

\"locksmith-toronto\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have received several reports from the locksmith industry (who else?) and elsewhere of a new “black hat” ranking tactic that seems to push listings to the top of the 7 Pack by using a Wikipedia webpage as the Map’s landing page. For example, the links on the search for Locksmith Toronto ON head off …<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t