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Last week I posted Funny Google Local Listings & Reviews featuring the "Genital Dentist".
Today I thought I'd start the Google+ Local Hall of Shame highlighting spammy listings & bad practices.
So for your viewing pleasure - here are a couple good ones to kick things off.
Note: This is ripping on a pretty big Local SEO company that many of you have likely heard of. Not only is it sad that there are companies in our industry that are really scammy, but it's kinda scary that Google would let someone get away with adding this listing too. (And it's been live for 2 years.) Fake business name, fake phone, fake reviews. Someone went to a whole lot of trouble to make this company look bad.
I had to show map search view because that uber long butchered business name does not display on the G+ L listing. Granted you should not have such bad service that you make customers this irate. But also Google should not allow user edits like this and I'm surprised the name change was approved.
Yep looks like this was not user edit. A BOT did it. That's all I'm even going to say!
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Last but not least... Think carefully about what images you use on your listing
I work with Dentists and understand patient psychology pretty well. Yes, patients want to improve their smile. Yes 'some' tasteful before and after pictures are OK (but I'd use on the site, not on a listing.)
But NO ONE wants to see Dental images that ugly. They just really don't!
OK I know you guys run into all kinds of crazy stuff out there on the wild wild web!
Feel free to add to this thread but please no business names, direct links to listings,
just screen shots.
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Today I thought I'd start the Google+ Local Hall of Shame highlighting spammy listings & bad practices.
So for your viewing pleasure - here are a couple good ones to kick things off.
Note: This is ripping on a pretty big Local SEO company that many of you have likely heard of. Not only is it sad that there are companies in our industry that are really scammy, but it's kinda scary that Google would let someone get away with adding this listing too. (And it's been live for 2 years.) Fake business name, fake phone, fake reviews. Someone went to a whole lot of trouble to make this company look bad.
I had to show map search view because that uber long butchered business name does not display on the G+ L listing. Granted you should not have such bad service that you make customers this irate. But also Google should not allow user edits like this and I'm surprised the name change was approved.
Yep looks like this was not user edit. A BOT did it. That's all I'm even going to say!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Last but not least... Think carefully about what images you use on your listing
I work with Dentists and understand patient psychology pretty well. Yes, patients want to improve their smile. Yes 'some' tasteful before and after pictures are OK (but I'd use on the site, not on a listing.)
But NO ONE wants to see Dental images that ugly. They just really don't!
OK I know you guys run into all kinds of crazy stuff out there on the wild wild web!
Feel free to add to this thread but please no business names, direct links to listings,
just screen shots.
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