http://maps.google.ca/maps/place?cid=7069239470643117231
this is how i found out about this, got this email today. i took a look and it seems like these people have been editing tons of other people's DJ listings.
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From: Brenda ProCheff <Brenda....@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 6:57 PM
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To: dat...@gmail.com
Name: Brenda ProCheff
Phone: (416) 123456
Email: Brenda....@hotmail.com
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Event Details: Did you notice that your Google Places account was mysteriously deleted recently by a user named “Anonymous?”
Well our company listing was also deleted on March 24th along with most of the DJ companies in Toronto.
This is what happened.
Our Google places listing was flagged as a fake listing with a fake address by the user “Anonymous”. This was done to dozens of other DJ companies in Toronto as well. Based on this flagging, a Google trusted reviewer without verifying details have deleted most of the listings thus almost 80% all listings disappeared from Google places..
Now do you want to know who was behind this deliberate unethical and illegal act…? Also do you want to know how we found out?
Here’s how..
Since our listing and most listings were deleted our web consulting company did an analysis of all the companies that were not deleted and their online activity and came with a shortlist of 02 companies. At this point there was no confirmation. However, one of the companies was Surround Sound DJ.
Based on this information we used the same strategy that the Original “Anonymous” user used and “Flagged” their listing for deletion. Once we did this, within several hours Surround Sound DJ tried to revert and undo the deletion using the Google user name “Surround”. However, we repeated the flagging to Google. At this point Baruch Labunski the owner of Surround Sound DJ panicked and accidently used the original username “Anonymous” and wrote a personal request to Google to stop us from deleting his listing.
Now we know as a fact that the original deletion was indeed done by Surround Sound’s Baruch Labunski and his SEO company rankhigh.ca and we have proof.
You can check this by yourself.
1. Log-in to Google
2. Go to your Google Map Maker (www.google.com/mapmaker)
3. Search for your company
4. Click History / Details
5. Now you can see all activity and who has deleted your profile (Check on Mar 24, 2012)
6. Click the user “Anonymous”
7. Now you can see all activity (Deletions ect done my the user)
Now Search for Surround Sound DJ
1. Click History
2. Now you can see Amanda Lanskibu & Anonymous User (The two names we used to Flag the Surround Sound DJ Listing)
3. Scroll Down
4. Now you will see some comments made by both Surround Sound and “Anonymous”
5. Check the comments
6. Click on the Anonymous user
Now you will know that the same user who deleted most DJ companies in Toronto is the same user who has made a personal appeal / comments begging Google not to delete the Surround sound DJ Listing: Their exact words “Please Remove this person Amanda Lanskibu she is trying to remove a map I won for over 5 Years please stop this person”
Convinced?
Now what are you going to do about the company who tied to illegally and unethically delete your listing in Google?
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On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:19 PM, General Map Maker on behalf of Flash <google-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
You are posting in the Google Map Maker forum, and unfortunately our expertise is limited to that product. Normally I would send you right over to the Places forum, but there is the possibility that the edits were made in Map Maker rather than Places. If you could post a link to your listing we can check for you as to what we can see here, and then send you over to Places if we can't help.
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Yes, you are right, someone keeps marking it for deletion, and they sometimes even succeed. And then because you are Places verified, the "Google Revert" bot comes in and reverses it. These edits are nothing to worry about. There could be dozens of more that you never even saw; if they are flat out denied they disappear. Your listing is still there.I do see the comments about too many fake reviews. I looked at the first two page of your reviews; all but one are 5 stars by a brand new account, the three that go on to review a second business do spammy looking ones; in fact the same business appears a couple of times. They all then never review anything again. I can see why it would look suspicious. But no one at Google is going to examine your reviews based on that comment. I cannot tell you if you are being reported elsewhere. Best to go to the Places forum, which I see Bliss posted a link to, and see what they think of your reviews.
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We are not concered with SERP in Map Maker, but rather we concentrate on accuracy. SERP questions would need to be asked in the Places forum. But to be clear, in actual fact most if not all of your reviews are not from customers who have not used your paid DJ services?
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I denied the remaining edit; you should not see anything pending any longer.
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There are certain categories that get spammed more than others; particularly ones that don't require a store front to operate. You happen to be in such a category. If there was not a mechanism to go in and edit other's listings, then there would be no way for us to go in and rid your category of true spam. You would be on page 300 in the SERP rankings because there would be that many fake listings ahead of you. So it is a necessary process for them to be editable. However, you have not been "wrecked"; the general public does not look at Map Maker and you remain listed on Maps.
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Toronto DJ ServicesProfile reported: The Spam Fighting Form.Places Forum: http://goo.gl/xhKYO
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The "Wedding DJ" entry has been selected by Google's algorithms rather than coming from your Places page. That is exactly the sort of item that you would use Map Maker to edit. I went in and removed it, plus I elevated your DJ listing from a secondary category to the Primary category. It is now awaiting review. If one of you wanted to go into Map Maker and make an identical edit, I will cancel my edit and approve yours instead; otherwise we will just need to wait for a person or the Approval Bot to approve my edit.
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You are posting in the Google Map Maker forum, and unfortunately our expertise is limited to that product. Normally I would send you right over to the Places forum, but there is the possibility that the edits were made in Map Maker rather than Places. If you could post a link to your listing we can check for you as to what we can see here, and then send you over to Places if we can't help.
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