ivan_collins

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   by ivan_collins 13y ago

   I'm sure they could get their domains back through court. But just updating their Google Places Profile is a lot easier. Most are just clueless.
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   by ivan_collins 13y ago

   whoops, I mean to post that comment to the papaver comment:/. Nice to spot this link building scheme in the background. This could aggregate some significant link weight over time if they have some more complex than Google normally c
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   by ivan_collins 13y ago

   I wrote this post. We claim their Google Places profiles in the same way the hijackers did and then submit a request to Google to update the URL back to their original URL. Here's a link: https://www.google.com/busin
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   by ivan_collins 13y ago

   I wrote this post originally and totally agree about the Flash sites and PDF menus being debatable for those types of websites. But these restaurants have good websites and these hijacker sites aren't more useful. The Eat Street site
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   by ivan_collins 13y ago

   I'm the author of this blog post and just want to comment that it's very hard to rank a fresh site ahead of the restaurant's true website. The inbound links from Yelp, Trip Advisor, Urban Spoon, and Open Table give carry a l
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   by ivan_collins 13y ago

   I don't doubt that these restaurants might have authorized these companies to do this by signing a contract that they didn't read fully or understand. It may have been completely legal, but it's still taking advantage of the
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   Many Restaurants have their Google Places Profile Hijacked(test.reservationgenie.com)

   3 points by ivan_collins 13y ago|0 comments