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    • AFoust
      AFoust last edited by

      Doing some analysis for a clients and it have come to our attention that some of the competitors in this area have 16 to 18 categories, many duplicate and keyword stuffed. I tried to find a specific action to report this to Google, I am aware you can report spam for websites does this apply to the places pages as well?  Can you just use the report abuse or report spam links?  Anyone have any experience with this type of action with Google?  Thanks.

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      • RicardoLG
        RicardoLG last edited by

        I reported a page some months ago for keyword stuffing in the title. They changed the company name in the Google+ Local by the keyword. For some weeks it was showing in the top 10 results, but after that it disapeared. I don't know if it was a penalty or just bad SEO. Anyway I think the best you can do is to report.

        In the Google Plus page, just under the "Follow" Icon there are 5 small icons and an down arrow. Click in the arrow and you'll see a menu item "Report/Block".

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        • AFoust
          AFoust last edited by

          I appreciate the response, I succeeded in reporting the page not sure if it will work or not.  I normally don't worry about little things I see but this guy had 18 categories loaded with keywords and his business name is stuffed with 6 lines of keywords and he ranks very high. I had to point that one out!!!  I reported some incorrect business information using the map maker tool also.  I will let you know how it turns out!  Thanks again.

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