[talk-au] more SEO spam?

[Martijn van Exel]

You can point businesses to https://www.onosm.org/ <https://www.onosm.org/> which gives businesses an easy way to add themselves. It generates a note on OSM, that mappers can then turn into an actual node or whatever OSM type is relevant to add the information to the map in a responsible way.
Martijn

> On Jan 30, 2019, at 1:22 PM, forster at ozonline.com.au wrote:
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> Hi, I'm thinking  it might be worth emailing the businesses being advertised and telling them that the SEO company that they engaged is making edits that they might not want their business associates.
> Tony
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>> Concur. Be ruthless. These people are akin to nuisance callers and
>> should be publicly flogged.
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>> Ian
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>> On 30/1/19 7:22 pm, nwastra wrote:
>>> We seem to be getting a lot of business edits in this form lately  with only a name and description tag, often with address details or  just spam in the description tag.
>>> As is usual with spam like business edits, they use a throw away  email to make the edit and you never get a response from any query.
>>> https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=66761372
>>> I am in favour of deleting them as SEO spam.
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