Posted: May 11th, 2008, 4:25pm CEST
Mike Blumenthal has a fascinating post about a local attorney who allegedly hired someone to get him placement in Google Maps. The hired webmaster/SEO guy spammed Google with bulk uploads and now the lawyer has been banned from Google Maps for “the foreseeable future.” As a result, the attorney complains: “I have suffered at least a 30 percent drop in business.” Placement in Google Maps results (and thus prominently in Google search results) has become an increasingly high stakes game for so