{"id":973,"date":"2008-09-25T23:01:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T03:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=973"},"modified":"2008-09-25T23:01:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T03:01:46","slug":"google-maps-hijacking-listings-still-in-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/25\/google-maps-hijacking-listings-still-in-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Hijacking: Listings still in Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/flowers-brooklyn.jpg\" alt=\"Mapspam 10 Pack Listing\" align=\"right\"\/><br \/>\nEarlier today when I <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners\/browse_thread\/thread\/fb86675184b0c2ff?hl=en\">had read<\/a> that Podesta Baldocchi Florist&#8217;s listing had returned to normal in the Local 10 Pack, I had assumed that Google had cleaned up the mess and removed the offending listings from Maps. <\/p>\n<p>Not so fast pardner! It seems two weeks isn&#8217;t quite long enough to purge these fellows. A number of listings are still in the index from the hijacking entity. They still show as well on the Local 10 Pack on the search <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;client=safari&#038;rls=en-us&#038;q=flowers+brooklyn+ny&#038;btnG=Search\">Flowers Brooklyn NY<\/a>. Amazing the difficulty that Google has in purging the database of listings engaged in apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/18\/google-maps-widespread-hijacking-of-business-listings-confirmed\/\">criminal activity<\/a>. If this activity doesn&#8217;t warrant a full and complete ban from Maps, I don&#8217;t know what does.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/convenient.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn florist Mapspam\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today when I had read that Podesta Baldocchi Florist&#8217;s listing had returned to normal in the Local 10 Pack, I had assumed that Google had cleaned up the mess and removed the offending listings from Maps. Not so fast pardner! It seems two weeks isn&#8217;t quite long enough to purge these fellows. A number &#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-973","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\/973","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=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}