Comments on: Locksmith Spam on Bing? You Bet

By: Robert V

Robert V — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:33:23 +0000

As the owner of a small locksmith shop, I was more than disappointed with Bing’s results myself. In addition to the map listings, their natural search results also return many of the bogus locksmith websites (with real companies showing up much further down). I wish the big three would just acknowledge the failure of their “local” maps listings and do away with them.

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By: Dave Oremland

Dave Oremland — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:04:50 +0000

I’m not sure if Mike Blumenthal published this somewhere or I gleaned it from him through conversations/email.

The locksmiths have spammed everything. They’ve spammed the data providers, the local/maps versions of the search engines, the IYP’s, etc. Where they could perform spam…they did it. In fact there is some case that was or is being pursued in Missouri (or Kansas) being pursued by the state’s attorney general specifically related to locksmith spam on IYP’s.

The point is that locksmith spam is everywhere.

I believe one of the engines should take a strong stand on it. As David Mihm suggested, one of the engines should be public in this regard. We would support them.

I’m sure many in the community of Local SEO’s and those with clients would publicise this very aggressively to work to let the public know that at least one version of Local or Maps had a modicum of reliable information.

By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 29, 2009

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 29, 2009 — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:05:00 +0000

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By: WebRhynoSEO

WebRhynoSEO — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:49:25 +0000

Is this what gets passed off as professional SEO these days? The USA is really overrun with so-called professional optimizers who run these gags. I’ve begun turning my attention outside the US and have discovered there is still lots of fertile soil in countries without these clowns/posers.

Fortunately it’s just Live Search. Last numbers I saw said that their share of search traffic is under 10%, is that number still accurate?

By: Mapspam Already on Kumo/Bing « Screenwerk

Mapspam Already on Kumo/Bing « Screenwerk — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:26:21 +0000

[...] on the local side of things beyond what I did yesterday for Search Engine Land. But Matt McGee beat me to it and found . . . mapspam on Kumo/Bing. He said he compared it to Live Search results for [...]

By: Dave Hucker

Dave Hucker — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:21:01 +0000

looks like Dave just beat me to it.