http://www.flowerchat.com/real-florists-blog/2009/02/google-maps-hit-wth-massive-group-of-florist-spam-listings/ Florist industry news, consumer alerts and a directory of real local florists. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:01:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.flowerchat.com/real-florists-blog/2009/02/google-maps-hit-wth-massive-group-of-florist-spam-listings/comment-page-1/#comment-246 samotrib Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:08:55 +0000 http://www.flowerchat.com/real-florists-blog/wp/wordpress/2009/02/google-maps-hit-wth-massive-group-of-florist-spam-listings/#comment-246 I doubt Google Maps would stop covering those industries. Nor do I think they can continue to approach in a whack-a-mole fashion. It would seem that the fastest way to address the issue is for Google Maps to stop indexing listings from YellowBook, YellowPages and SuperPages.com. At the point the onus would be on the IYP directories to clean up their data or face certain drop off in traffic. I doubt Google Maps would stop covering those industries. Nor do I think they can continue to approach in a whack-a-mole fashion. It would seem that the fastest way to address the issue is for Google Maps to stop indexing listings from YellowBook, YellowPages and SuperPages.com. At the point the onus would be on the IYP directories to clean up their data or face certain drop off in traffic.

]]>