http://www.naffziger.net/blog/2007/01/17/how-to-spam-the-yellow-pages/ Startups, Search & Seattle Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.naffziger.net/blog/2007/01/17/how-to-spam-the-yellow-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-2229 New Features at Judy's Book at Starting Up by Rahul Pathak Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:52:01 +0000 http://www.naffziger.net/blog/2007/01/17/how-to-spam-the-yellow-pages/#comment-2229 [...] To this point, we had supported adding online deals to the system but we didn’t have a public way for users to contribute local deals. One aspect of the local deal post process that creates complexity is the fact that you have to provide a way for users to add business listings without creating duplicates in your data. In addition, no one wants to type in a complete address, so you have to facilitate search. Oh and by the way, you need to prevent people from spamming your listing database. (Dave has a great post on some of the fun things that happen in local listing spam.) [...] [...] To this point, we had supported adding online deals to the system but we didn’t have a public way for users to contribute local deals. One aspect of the local deal post process that creates complexity is the fact that you have to provide a way for users to add business listings without creating duplicates in your data. In addition, no one wants to type in a complete address, so you have to facilitate search. Oh and by the way, you need to prevent people from spamming your listing database. (Dave has a great post on some of the fun things that happen in local listing spam.) [...]

]]> http://www.naffziger.net/blog/2007/01/17/how-to-spam-the-yellow-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Wow, I hit a nerve at Superpages - Naffziger’s Net Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:56:33 +0000 http://www.naffziger.net/blog/2007/01/17/how-to-spam-the-yellow-pages/#comment-373 [...] fairly lengthy post by Chris Silver Smith at Superpages in response to my critical post of his ‘local SEO’ [...] [...] fairly lengthy post by Chris Silver Smith at Superpages in response to my critical post of his ‘local SEO’ [...]

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