{"id":646,"date":"2008-05-06T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2008-05-06T16:35:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T20:35:26","slug":"google-maps-more-bulk-upload-mapspam-or-bad-data-from-a-trusted-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/06\/google-maps-more-bulk-upload-mapspam-or-bad-data-from-a-trusted-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps: More Bulk Upload Mapspam or bad data from a Trusted Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent reports of bulk upload Earthlink MapSpam<\/a> may in fact be “spam” coming to Google from one of its “trusted” primary data suppliers instead rather than being entered via the Local Business Center.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\"Earthlink<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

L<\/a>ast week<\/a> and again today Imnotadoctor.com is reporting spammy listings in the Google Maps Local 10-Pack. In this most recent case<\/a> the bad listings are from Earthlink. Stephen at Imnotadoctor.com speculates that this is a case of bulk upload abuse. (image courtesy of ImNotaDoctor.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

However upon further inspection of the\u00c2\u00a0records<\/a> for both the Big Local and Earthlink spam, it appears that another\u00c2\u00a0scenario could be that the listings did not come via Google’s Bulk upload\u00c2\u00a0feature. A more likely explanation is that they were fed to Google via\u00c2\u00a0a primary data provider.<\/p>\n

A normal record in Google has visible attributes that are typically associated with\u00c2\u00a0either a bulk upload or a single LBC entry. It is noted in the record<\/a> that the\u00c2\u00a0information is provided by the business owner and the record does not support end\u00c2\u00a0user edits. In both of these cases neither condition was met. This leads me to supspect another route other than a bulk upload.<\/p>\n

\"Earthlink<\/a><\/p>\n

The questions might really be “which Google Data Provider has this level\u00c2\u00a0of trust and the inability to properly scrub their records?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent reports of bulk upload Earthlink MapSpam may in fact be “spam” coming to Google from one of its “trusted” primary data suppliers instead rather than being entered via the Local Business Center.\u00c2\u00a0 Last week and again today Imnotadoctor.com is reporting spammy listings in the Google Maps Local 10-Pack. In this most recent case the …<\/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-646","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