Here’s my complain…about the way you guys respond to questions in the Google moderator. I have posted a Question about 3 weeks ago ..”Does google supports OpenId for Gmail or google accounts ?”
(other websites of google also).

But I didn’t got any answers. I think you should not wait to get a question get rated before you answer as this leaves many interested people waiting for too long to hear back from you people. Your app.. Moderator is not as user friendly as your search engine, gmail or IGoogle, blogger etc.

You may also think of another model if it is too difficult for you to answer so many questions.

Thanks,
Amarendra k.

But that can happen more easily than you think. Real webmasters write content pretty slowly. But spammers are produce with automation, making millions of pages a day. You could find yourself on an IP or hoster that contains 100 legitimate webmasters like you, and one spammer… and in a day or two the spammer has created 10,000 sites, making himself 99% of the content. How would you know?

That is not my sentiment dude.

YET

and the sentiment is obviously if you cant beat em join em.

Which one do you stand-by?

BTW, TBPR is stale, lagged and on a different scale to REAL PR. Stop obsessing over TBPR, “dude”.

That is not my sentiment dude

LOL! Dude, YOU wrote it.

and the sentiment is obviously if you cant beat em join em.

The Google Local Algorithm is easily manipulated, and most of the sites doing well there are PR-0 “Page Rank” Zero, so I doubt Google thinks they have any authority.

NO it is NOT “easily manipulated”. You only ever see TBPR, not the REAL PR that Google uses as a small PART of their Algorithm.

You are better off believing in Tooth Fairy rather than TBPR. It is lagged, stale and on a different scale to real PR.

That is not my sentiment dude. My sentiment is that the Google Maps rules are very vague and even though they were improved, they can still cause one to be branded as a spammer even if he arguably is not.

What my main complaint is, is that the companies that rank in the one, three and ten packs in Google Local, are almost all using business names that are fake, and they are not being removed as spammers, despite the new rules that disallow this old practice by businesses to exploit the fact that Google Maps relies upon the title of the business, rather than the business description to delve out rankings in the one, three and ten packs at the very top of the natural language results next to that nifty and attractive map!

When I did it, I got branded as a Mapspammer, when others do it, nothing seems to happen. Some people are using domain farms to get multiple local listings and they are using different addresses, or spelling the business names different, using multiple phone numbers, using a fake name for a law firm, such as Los Angeles Motorcycle Accident Attorney [See example here http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS255US255&q=los+angeles+motorcycle+accident+lawyer&btnG=Search ], when the name is really completely different [See real name here http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_detail.aspx?x=219964 ] or law firms using each attorney’s name at the firm as a separate listing, and multiple url’s that 301 redirect, to get multiple listings and despite spam reports, they get away with it.

Or multiple listings for the same business at the same address [See here http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl ]

So there is an unfair application of the Maps Rules, which makes Google look bad ultimately. Also, you can see that this listing which has dominated the one box for many months, is not being banned, but instead allowed to do whatever.

The Google Local Algorithm is easily manipulated, and most of the sites doing well there are PR-0 “Page Rank” Zero, so I doubt Google thinks they have any authority.

It’s just that Maps has many serious flaws. I love Google and they are helping me live a better life. So none of this is an insult. But come on, seriously, get some rules that are intelligible, or don’t unfairly apply the rules to the detriment of some and to the benefit of others.

This is a publicly traded, billion dollar company, not some mom and pop shop. Anyways, off my soap box. Semper Fi dude.

and the sentiment is obviously if you cant beat em join em.

Then you should be surprised when Google treats you as a SE spammer. Lets hope that blackhats don’t start to Murder people so you don’t blindly follow suit.

I had to fire several employees after Google Local started ranking non authority sites in the very top.

How do you KNOW the sites above yours aren’t “authority sites” in the eyes of Google?

Focus SOLEY on your own sites content and stop wasting time mirroring blackhat ways.

I have followed your blog for awhile now but have never commented before. I have been looking all over the web for the answer to a question I have and have not been able to find it. I was hoping that you can shed some light on the subject.

I have been putting together a slew of videos of neighborhoods in my local market to provide those moving to get a feel for the area prior to arriving. I am about ready to start posting the video and have been contemplating loading them upto you tube and then embedding them into my website. However, I have been hearing alot of noise about duplicate content. If I load the videos to you tube then embed them into my website will this then be viewed as duplicate content?

I look forward to hearing what you have to say.

James Wheelock