Comments on: Are You In Control Of Your Google Local Information? http://www.flowershopnetwork.com/blog/control-google-local-information/ the official Flower Shop Network blog Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:05:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Steve Pellham http://www.flowershopnetwork.com/blog/control-google-local-information/comment-page-1/#comment-14479 Steve Pellham Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:00:29 +0000 http://www.flowershopnetwork.com/blog/?p=2758#comment-14479 Another useful tool in helping to claim your local listings with the major search engines and other large web portals is GetListed: http://www.getlisted.org - this site was created to aid businesses in claiming their various local listings across the web to ensure that they get more exposure. Given the recent increase in unscrupulous businesses creating fake business listings and spamming Google Local and Google maps, it is more important than ever for you to claim your local listings online. Following are links to recent posts from Local SEO expert Mike Blumenthal and floral professionals Cathy Rulloda and Mark McFall regarding some of the recent attempts to generate fake listings for floral related searches: By Blumenthal - http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/03/02/google-maps-suffers-huge-infusion-of-remote-call-forwarding-mapspam/ By Rulloda - http://www.flowerchat.com/real-florists-blog/2009/02/google-maps-hit-wth-massive-group-of-florist-spam-listings.php By McFall - http://floristseowatch.blogspot.com/2009/02/local-search-spammer-florist-concierge.html Another useful tool in helping to claim your local listings with the major search engines and other large web portals is GetListed: http://www.getlisted.org - this site was created to aid businesses in claiming their various local listings across the web to ensure that they get more exposure.

Given the recent increase in unscrupulous businesses creating fake business listings and spamming Google Local and Google maps, it is more important than ever for you to claim your local listings online.

Following are links to recent posts from Local SEO expert Mike Blumenthal and floral professionals Cathy Rulloda and Mark McFall regarding some of the recent attempts to generate fake listings for floral related searches:

By Blumenthal - http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/03/02/google-maps-suffers-huge-infusion-of-remote-call-forwarding-mapspam/

By Rulloda - http://www.flowerchat.com/real-florists-blog/2009/02/google-maps-hit-wth-massive-group-of-florist-spam-listings.php

By McFall - http://floristseowatch.blogspot.com/2009/02/local-search-spammer-florist-concierge.html

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