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State Attorney General to AT&T: Remove Illegal Locksmith Listings at Yellowpages.com
Legitimate locksmith’s have been attempting to convince authorities to pursue the illegetimate locksmiths for several years. They seem to have achieved a high profile success in Missouri where the State Attorney General is filing suit against one of the Florida companies behind a significant amount of the mapspam. In addition, the Attorney General “has also …
IYP Directory Scam Alert: MoreYP.com – More YellowPages, Inc
I received not one but three calls during the last week of January asking to confirm my listing for the Yellow Pages. Each time, the call attendant would assure me that I was NOT approving any charges as they talked over a computer response system. On the third call, I asked why they needed to …
The Annual Print Yellow Pages Page Count And Other Anomalies
It is that time of year when I usually am beating a dead horse or three. With the arrival of my annual SuperPages Yellow Page Book(let?) I gleefully get out my ruler, Excel and last year’s book to see whether I can once again make fun of lament the decline of the one of Local’s …
Google Maps Upends Primary Data Suppliers – YP.ca is Out
It has been confirmed that YellowPages.ca (YP.ca) is no longer Google’s primary data supplier for business listings in Canada. But the story appears to be bigger than that and likely includes new terms in many countries whereby Google is now owning rather than licensing their business listing data. Google has, over the past year an …
Which Sites Do Consumers Use to Find a Local Business? Why YP.com is Facing Headwinds
Updated 2/18 with regional and urban data. On January 20th, I completed a consumer survey (n=~2500) asking: Which of the following on-line sites have you used regularly to find local businesses? The obvious winner was Google with the YellowPages.com making a surprisingly strong showing. In a recent article by Greg Sterling, YP.com noted that they …
Need Help Getting Reviews? Its only $299/mo and a ‘little’ cheating
Google, in their ever increasing focus on reviews, has created a marketplace where abuse of their review system has economic rewards. This is not new but the companies working in the space of getting reviews at any cost have become somewhat more sophisticated in circumventing Google’s filters and refining their pitch. And for as many …
Google Local & Review Scams – A Simple Solution
Local scams involving Google are like dipthera on dog feces, very common. Whether it’s the hundreds of companies trading off of Google’s name, fake Google plaques, selling reviews, a company implying that they are Google and offering to “help” you claim your listing or claiming to be able to rank you first because of a special direct relationship …
Yelp: Real People. Real Reviews. Deceptive Sales Tactics.
In my talks, I have often said that Google is the print Yellow Pages for the new millennium. But as Rocky Argawal has pointed out that title really falls to Yelp. He has noted that Yelp, in charging some local advertisers $600 per 1,000 impressions, “despite ostensibly being an Internet company, [their] business model is closer …
Facebook Graph Search and Local From Across the Web- Let the Fight Begin
Facebook with the rollout of Graph Search (terrible name) is staking its ground in local search. Here are selected comments from Matt McGee, Danny Sullivan & Greg Sterling that I thought summarized the situation well: Greg Sterling What Does FB (Graph) Search Mean for Local? If Facebook’s execution is successful and the UX is good …
Is Google’s Australian Data Partner Spamming Places for $11 a Listing?
In Australia, Google uses the Australian Yellow Pages as the exclusive primary data source for Places and it is so noted on every page of business listings in the Maps results. Yet this story from the forums of being able to buy your way into a multitude of Places listings by purchasing locations with the …
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