How to Remove Google Local Maps - Spammers - Same Company with Fake Multiple Address Listings

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Hi Friends,

While Looking for an Air Ambulance Service for my uncle, I came through one interesting violation by 5 inter linked companies, like,

  • All Companies are same

  • Their Websites similar in content & structure

  • All Hosted on Same Servers

  • All Generate Same Errors like all contact us pages generate 409,

  • All are listed 3-10 times in different cities with all non-existent incomplete addresses, which cannot be verified and without any property number or suite number,

  • They are spamming on almost all major cities and exploiting google local listing service benefits

These companies are - Sky Air Ambulance, Panchmukhi Air Ambulance , Medilift , King Air Ambulance, Life Line Air Ambulance, Falcon Emergency

All Sites are same in content and structure and all contact us goes to 409 error page,

All of Them are listed 3-8 times in all local directories, if we search with indore air ambulance, patna air ambulance, bhopal air ambulance, raipur air ambulance, etc., any major Indian city with Air ambulance suffix,

Most of the Address are incomplete and when i go through their websites, their contact displays presence in only 2-3 cities but they are listed in atleast 20-40 cities with 3-8 results atleast in every city, hence they are misusing google listings and creating fake and spam

Please look into it and suggest

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Google Local Search Results for Patna Air Ambulance, Bhopal Air Ambulance, Raipur Air Ambulance, Lucknow Air Ambulance, Kolkata Air Ambulance,

They are listed in almost all major cities with incomplete fake addresses and these fake addresses are not even listed in their website,

How to handle so much spam in Google Local Directory ?

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Hi @Saurabhkumar1

Please consider first if they are duplicates,if you confirm they are fake. Remove the fake listings.Select each of them click suggest an edit,remove this place for duplicate of another place or spame,fake or offensive.

You can also edit the correct details such as the website you referred to.

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@Stranger9 thanks for your feedback… but there are about 40-100 such listings in every city… is there a way to report / update/ change all ? i wonder how they registered themselves in such huge numbers… all 5 companies are listed in 3-8 times in about 50-60 cities

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@Saurabhkumar1 I personally dont know any way to do the same edit for X number of listings at once.But you can edit a number of listings you feel confortable each day. Its experience that will make you more skilled on editing places.Dont forget to mark as solution the answer that fit your question the most by clicking the 3 dots near the comment.

Best regards :grin:

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@Stranger9 thanks dear… but sad to see how people are misusing google listing services… i though there must be a faster/ better way of editing/ removing spammers…thanks for your help :slightly_smiling_face:

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Unfortunately @Saurabhkumar1 the only way to achieve this as local guide is processing them one by one.

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@JanVanHaver many thanks for your help & info, Wishing a wonderful day Ahead !

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Hello @Saurabhkumar1 ,

Thanks for reaching out and bringing this to our attention.

As @Stranger9 and @JanVanHaver kindly pointed out, you can only report them one by one. However, here on Connect, we have a board called Idea Exchange, it is a place where Local Guides share their ideas for improvements or updates, related to the program. You are always welcome to share your ideas. To learn more about the Idea Exchange, you can read this article How do I use the Idea Exchange?.

P.S. Please note, I will accept @Stranger9 ´s reply as a solution. You can take a look at How do I mark comments as solutions for some tips, in case you need to do so in the future.

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Dear @Ekattotii @JanVanHaver @Stranger9

Thank you very much for your guidance & help,

You guys are amazing… Looking forward to join Idea Exchange & learn more,

Best Regards,

Saurabh

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As I observed they made Google Map with the proper address all are looking very genuine I also visited more than 10 Cities of Google Map. As far as I checked websites they mentioned proper address also in their internal webpages by which they made Google Map. I am working in a Digital Marketing Sector so I know these things very well.

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Mr. Saurabh, I’m a Digital Marketer and working on many educational and real estate projects so as I think if their websites are on the same server then there is a possibility that they made their websites by only one Website Development Agency. And as I am seeing their websites have different contact numbers and proper address with proper Social Media pages and saw the regular update on Social media.

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No, I don’t think so, as an example, there is Google Map of Pizza Hut all over in India. So maybe Company has tie-up in entire India that’s why they have Google Map in every city of India and they provide service all over India. And Website Structure and Contents are different in their every website.

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Dear @Ekattotii @JanVanHaver @Ekattotii @Prakash4444 @digitalduniya @ranjandelhi

This is a classic case of abuse by closely related companies and how they are fooling google local business listing and all associates,

All these 5 companies are listed in multiple cities with all fake/ incomplete and non-existent addresses and with different numbers and owned by same management,

If you do Indore Air Ambulance , you will find same company listed with fake/nonexistent addresses like - Falcon Emergency Air Ambulance Services In indore - address is “Navlakha Rd, Gadi Adda, Indore, Madhya Pradesh 452007” which is name of one particular road / street and this company doesnt exist on this road if one visits physically. Same is with all 4 other companies and their multiple listings.

I believe someone has found a trick to register company and map them in google without any physical “postcard” pin code delivery method and got all companies registered,

Dear All, these companies are not Pizza Hut or Starbucks, they are air ambulance service providers and they are misusing google listing by getting them listed with so many “ABCD Road” type addresses, as a matter of fact, they are present in maximum 1-2 locations in India whereas they have around 60-100 google listings with all fake / non-existent addresses like “ABCD Road” XYZ City,

I wonder how they verified these addresses, since it is practically impossible to deliver a postcard pin to a company like "Company, ABCD Road, XYZ City. I suspect someone who is well aware of google local business process is helping them,

I request all seniors to look into this issue and blacklist companies who are misusing google listings. If required, I can send my friends in different cities of India to physically verify all addresses so as we give fair chance to all companies under any category and just one person with 5 different business names should not be allowed to misuse / exploit the listing process,

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Indeed @sonjaworld there are unfortunately a lot of these examples to be found on Maps.You might want to check out this post where I explain in detail how I was able to get some of them removed.

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@JanVanHaver thanks for your help and guidance… many thanks !

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I am also found fake & duplicate location some people created to get more traffic in their website, and queries. I was wondering hot its possible in google. I try to report to google but nothing is happened, google couldn’t verify my edits this is the responds i am getting. their website , mobile number , products and services everything is same totally 5 fake places they marked as their business places this is completely spam and against google guidelines, I dont want to tell their company name here in the public platform may be some marketing agencies did this. if google can take action immediately that would be good. if any more information needed please come in privet, thanks

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Is this forum is only related to India? I dont see anyone speak about spam in the USA.

Also Google people ignore reports about spam.

I seriously do not understand what their actual job is…seems like all talk and do nothing.

Like Bobiisha ! She promised to take care of report I sent.

But she did nothing. And she do not reply either. Must be good to get a check for doing nothing.

Shame on you! All hiding behind titles like " specialists". you people are a joke.