"business information provided by american express"

[Jason Rogers]

I noticed today on a Facebook page, "business information provided by american express" on an auto generated place page. Any idea where this is coming from? Presumably one of the aggregators? Thanks

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Slumberland-Beresford-Facility/139519816103936

 

[Margaret Ornsby]

Fascinating, Jason. Never noticed that before. The phrase "Business location information provided by" is only used for amex too. Would lead you to think Amex and FB did a deal...

 

[Phil Rozek]

Whoa. Excellent find, Jason. Thanks.

Now this is weird. Check out the Amex business directory:

https://www.americanexpress.com/pr/en/content/merchant/pr/business-to-business-directory.html

Of course, the "search" links are broken. But there's a pony in there somewhere...

Update:

Think I've figured it out. Check out these:

https://freeads.americanexpress.com/merchant/faq

https://freeads.americanexpress.com/merchant/faq#sect2_q1

Makes me wonder if Amex would make a good citation.

 

[Jason Rogers]

Phil - Thanks for digging into this. This seems to be the crux of the answer, "Only qualifying American Express? Card accepting small businesses appear on the map."

SO, if a business accepts AmEx, I would think this is a great citation.

Here is a functioning map:
Amex Shop Small Map

It appears to be part of the AmEx Small Business Saturday campaign following Thanksgiving and their associated small biz push.
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/shop-small/

Searching the map I found some genuine small businesses (Palettes restaurant at the Denver Art Museum) and not-so-local Tokyo Joe's.

Add "Do you accept AmEx?" to your new client questionnaire!


... Man, a shout out from Phil. I have arrived!

 

[Linda Buquet]

Good catch Jason and nice pick up Phil. Jason you are so cute!

Odd though that "business information provided by american express" in quotes, only 2 entries come up.
The thread here and one at Warrior forum.

I was searching to see how many FB pages OR other places had that phase, but none do. Or no indexable content anyway.

 

[Jason Rogers]

It does appear that there is little indexable content. The business names in the map search results are, but I'm not finding more than that.

Also, I have not been able to find any listings that are owner verified. Might those be displayed differently?


Interestingly, I can see some Yelp references in the page source, suggesting that there is something more happening, but what?
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[Linda Buquet]

Another local puzzle for us to try to figure out...