Big Local is totally spamming Google Maps. They are everywhere!
I was just doing some normal daily analytics checks this morning and I searched for the terms:
I saw this!
I noticed “Big Local” dominating the results!
Looks like they are using the domain name www.clover.com, but that 302 redirects to www.BigLocal.com.
They are also using various street address to get these multiple results! They must be using PO Boxes or UPS addresses.
I am so surprised that Google let this happen. Hell even in there their description it mentions that this listing is not a physical location!
We think your new business is #1, and it’s our job to put it there. Be found for searches in the San Diego area. Not a Physical Location.
Then it got worse!
I searched: Dallas internet consulting
All you have to do to find more spam is search “City Name” + internet consulting.
Try it for yourself!
PLEASE PLEASE GOOGLE REMOVE THIS SPAM FROM GOOGLE LOCAL!
Update:
Thanks to Mike over at Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search he sent me this link:
Good find. Here is a more revealing search:
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:13 am
nice find dude.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Good find my man. Let’s see what happens to these guys once Google picks up on this. They’re going to look at your blog and grind their teeth! ahahahha
ImNotADoctor, removing junk from the net one post at a time… How does he do it? Don’t ask him how! He’s NOT A DOCTOR! hahaahhaa
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:43 am
[…] In addition to Greg from Search Engine Land, others have written about this too including Mike from the Blumenthals blog, Stephen from I’mNotADoctor (I believe he was the first to find this), and Greg’s article was even Sphunn on Sphinn. […]
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Hey, I was responding to this story on Mike’s blog and noticed that Google cleared out all of the Big Local listings with the exception of their Utah location. That didn’t take long
Nice catch though!
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
[…] Yesterday both Stephen Peron of Imnotadoctor.com and then Mike Blumenthal of blumenthals.com discussed some nationwide Google Maps spam by a company called Big Local. As of 4 PM (Mountain time) today while having a discussion with Mike the spam was still there, and now at 9 PM it is gone! […]
May 5th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I hope you cached it, because there’s only one result in Google local for them now.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:04 am
hi doctor,
it seems Matt Cutts checks your site sometimes, big local results desappeared
May 6th, 2008 at 7:53 am
I think EarthLink is doing the same thing?
http://www.google.com/search?q=business+internet+phoenix&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS252US252
Are they entering in every place they have an access point or server? Anyway, worth checking!
May 6th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Oh my god.
Like things like that wouldn’t be noticed.
I hope they get penalized…
May 6th, 2008 at 10:31 am
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May 6th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Damn, how can Google not see this?