How to bust a "Marketing & SEO" spammer [Video]

[j_holtslander]

A local outfit has been posting several spam listings around town with business titles like "Amazon Marketing Experts", "Cityname SEO Experts" etc.

I took the liberty of visiting their main office today on my lunch break. Looked like a co-working space but...

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/cdn.skunkworks.ca/IMG_4327.mp4

Video already submitted to Google with the spam report.

 

[Scott Rawlins]

Video appears just to be an image, but I am certainly curious now.

 

[j_holtslander]

Video appears just to be an image, but I am certainly curious now.

Fixed.

 

[Scott Rawlins]

Love it!!! Go get 'em detective!

 

[Tim Colling]

A local outfit has been posting several spam listings around town with business titles like "Amazon Marketing Experts", "Cityname SEO Experts" etc.

I took the liberty of visiting their main office today on my lunch break. Looked like a co-working space but...

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/cdn.skunkworks.ca/IMG_4327.mp4

Video already submitted to Google with the spam report.

Well done!

 

[j_holtslander]

My plan for if they were actually there was to pretend I was a potential customer making a services inquiry.

 

[Eric Rohrback]

Great stuff!

 

[adammaxum]

Could've just reported them online and accomplished the same thing...if they were being super spammy it's only a matter of time until they get taken down.

 

[j_holtslander]

Could've just reported them online and accomplished the same thing.

Had been doing that for months.

Google’s suspended the listing. Left them a little note too.