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citation. Andrew Shotland July 22, 2008 at 10:47 am I guess I don’t look at it as rewarding them – more like using them for your own purposes. That said, I totally get not wanting to be a part of something that you don’t agree with. Don Campbell July 22, 2008 at 11:02 am @andrew, @david: This is an interesting discussion – I’ve been struggling with this issue too. I’ve used the Merchant Circle free listings to help boost several clients local search results. But I’ve been hesitating using them lately because it involves giving them my clients phone number in the free profile, and then they start getting calls like Asia Mobile Number List
described in some of the comments on Mike’s blog and Matt’s blog. Andrew Shotland July 22, 2008 at 11:25 am @don (man Twitter is leaking into everything) chances are your client is
getting a lot of DM calls anyhow – as long as you notify them re what to expect seems like a low risk proposition. Michael D July 22, 2008 at 10:29 pm Same experience here. Clients reporting sleazy automated message calls from Merchant Circle regarding reviews (that did not exist). I’m all for local SEO opportunities but some of the sites tactics turn me off. Michael D July 22, 2008 at 10:37 pm @don Cambell Something you may want to consider is call tracked numbers for your clients. You can use them on sites like MC so if they create urls from them you can control (and gather marketing info). Andrew knows some good services. Mr. LSI KeyWord July 23, 2008 at 7:55 am “It happened by accident – they were using them as unique identifiers for the businesses in their database.” I hope you didn’t
actually believe that. As a programmer, that’s the lamest thing I’ve ever heard. Either they had a naive programmer that didn’t think phone numbers ever change or (more likely) they used it for the purpose of SEO (which is a very smart move) Andrew Shotland July 23, 2008 at 8:22 am You know Mr. LSI, I asked them about that and they claimed it was not intentional. I didn’t really care if it was or it wasn’t. I just thought it was a good strategy. Re the numbers changing, this actually works in their favor as long as you redirect to the new url with the new number.
described in some of the comments on Mike’s blog and Matt’s blog. Andrew Shotland July 22, 2008 at 11:25 am @don (man Twitter is leaking into everything) chances are your client is
getting a lot of DM calls anyhow – as long as you notify them re what to expect seems like a low risk proposition. Michael D July 22, 2008 at 10:29 pm Same experience here. Clients reporting sleazy automated message calls from Merchant Circle regarding reviews (that did not exist). I’m all for local SEO opportunities but some of the sites tactics turn me off. Michael D July 22, 2008 at 10:37 pm @don Cambell Something you may want to consider is call tracked numbers for your clients. You can use them on sites like MC so if they create urls from them you can control (and gather marketing info). Andrew knows some good services. Mr. LSI KeyWord July 23, 2008 at 7:55 am “It happened by accident – they were using them as unique identifiers for the businesses in their database.” I hope you didn’t
actually believe that. As a programmer, that’s the lamest thing I’ve ever heard. Either they had a naive programmer that didn’t think phone numbers ever change or (more likely) they used it for the purpose of SEO (which is a very smart move) Andrew Shotland July 23, 2008 at 8:22 am You know Mr. LSI, I asked them about that and they claimed it was not intentional. I didn’t really care if it was or it wasn’t. I just thought it was a good strategy. Re the numbers changing, this actually works in their favor as long as you redirect to the new url with the new number.