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The Whitespark Local Pulse for 12/17/2018

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By Tim Capper on Dec 15, 2018 12:17 pm

This is a NON Event! This non event is intended to ask Google to stop scraping 3rd party sites and injecting this spam into the businesses Google My Business page. It provides no value to users and is becoming ridiculous. You Can Do Better!     Event: Stop Spamming Businesses Google #StopCrapOnTheMap Date: 1st April […]

By Carrie Hill on Dec 14, 2018 11:46 am

We hope you were able to join us yesterday for the LocalU Webinar, Local Search in 2018/2019 - Looking Back and Forward with Darren Shaw, Mary Bowling, David Mihm and Mike Blumenthal. If you were, or if not - we've provided a recording of the event below - feel free to watch at your leisure. […]

By Tim Capper on Dec 14, 2018 11:21 am

Hotel Affiliate site tophotelsnearme.net is currently hijacking hotels Google My Business listings and replacing their official website URL with their own links. I was alerted to this by Craig Harkins and the #StopCrapOnTheMap hashtag that the Local SEO community uses to alert each other of local shenanigans.   https://t.co/olTRsh3NE6 is suggesting edits to hotel GMB […]

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