{"id":730,"date":"2008-07-11T07:43:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T11:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2008-07-11T10:47:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T14:47:28","slug":"google-how-to-notifify-google-of-mapspam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/google-how-to-notifify-google-of-mapspam\/","title":{"rendered":"Google: How to notifify Google of Mapspam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners\/\">Google Maps for Business Group<\/a>, Maps Guide Jen provided public <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners\/browse_thread\/thread\/ea2898fa2c921792?hl=en\">instructions<\/a> on filing a Mapspam report:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>==========<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners\/browse_thread\/thread\/ea2898fa2c921792?hl=en\">TOPIC: Report Spam on Google Maps<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>================<\/p>\n<p>== 1 of 1 ==<br \/>\nDate: Thurs, Jul 10 2008 12:00 pm<br \/>\nFrom: Maps Guide Jen<\/p>\n<p>To file a spam report with the Google Maps team, please reply to this<br \/>\nthread with the following information:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Your search terms<br \/>\n&#8211; A link to your search results<br \/>\n&#8211; A short description of why you believe this is spam<\/p>\n<p>If we don&#8217;t ask for additional information, you can assume that your<br \/>\nreport has been read and is being investigated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos to Google for a necessary step. But never one to be happy with a half full glass when it could very easily be more half full, I would suggest that:<br \/>\n1)These instructions be included in the Google Maps Help files<br \/>\n2)That there be an obvious link in the Maps Results that allow reporting of bad results and capture some of the information that Google needs to diagnose the issues involved<br \/>\n3)There should also be a more discreet reporting option for those users that would prefer to make the report privately.<\/p>\n<p>Even more importantly, Google needs to allocate the human resources to Maps to be sure that the Map&#8217;s records are truthful and accurate and that these reports DO get read on a regular basis. Obviously the Maps Staff are spread pretty thin and a poster to the group never really knows that the posts have been read AND that the report is being investigated. The Group goes weeks on end without hearing from a Guide and often obvious spam is not always dealt with quickly. <\/p>\n<p>In the end the burden of the process should be squarely on Google&#8217;s shoulders and they need to step up to that responsibility. The above statement of procedure is a GREAT first step but it is just a first step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in the Google Maps for Business Group, Maps Guide Jen provided public instructions on filing a Mapspam report: \u00c2\u00a0 ========== TOPIC: Report Spam on Google Maps\u00c2\u00a0 ================ == 1 of 1 == Date: Thurs, Jul 10 2008 12:00 pm From: Maps Guide Jen To file a spam report with the Google Maps team, please &#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-730","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\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}