{"id":607,"date":"2008-04-08T11:18:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T15:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/more-google-mapspam\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T11:18:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T15:18:32","slug":"more-google-mapspam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/more-google-mapspam\/","title":{"rendered":"More Google MapSpam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Shotland has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localseoguide.com\/google-mapspam-hits-too-close-to-home\/\">recent report<\/a> of SEO mapspam from a Vegas company called SEOChampion posting local listings for SEO services in his backyard. When he searched on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=pleasanton+ca+seo&amp;start=0&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\">Pleasanton SEO<\/a> he found two spammy looking listings in the onebox. He drove to one address and discovered that the address doesn&#8217;t exist in Pleasanton.<\/p>\n<p>I did a little more digging and found that this firs has listings in many metro areas around the country. Often with two listings in each. My <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=seochampion.com&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;um=1&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wl\">most frutiful search<\/a> showed at least 30 listings scattered across the US. With a little digging I am sure that I could find more but I am on vacation. A cursory glance at the streetview address in Phoenix showed their Phoenix address as located in a parking lot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/phoenix1.jpg\" alt=\"phoenix1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In their Phoenix listings they even bothered to add an &#8220;A&#8221; to the beginning of one of their listings. Nothing like those old Yellowpages tactics.<\/p>\n<p>Next time you are in Topeka, Cedar Rapids, Fort Smith (?), Des Moines, Springville, Mobile&#8230;.be sure to not stop by but give them a call as the Google Directions might just lead you astray.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/more-google-mapspam\/611\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-611\" title=\"seomapspam2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/seomapspam2.jpg\" alt=\"seomapspam2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Shotland has a recent report of SEO mapspam from a Vegas company called SEOChampion posting local listings for SEO services in his backyard. When he searched on Pleasanton SEO he found two spammy looking listings in the onebox. He drove to one address and discovered that the address doesn&#8217;t exist in Pleasanton. 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