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nail · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 6

I'm surprised more people are not stuffing the ballot box on Yahoo! Local's listings for various businesses. You can log in to Yahoo! and rate businesses in the Local directory.

Now, while some people would abuse this feature with sock puppets, I think it would be better to promote your Yahoo! Local business listing to your customers.

If you give them receipts, fliers, or brochures, ask them to log in and rate your business on Yahoo! Local. Sure, it would be great to have everyone give you 5 stars, but any 5 star listing can be sabotaged. If you have hundreds of ratings and dozens of reviews, you're more likely to achieve a long-term stability and people will perceive your business as being popular.

Frankly, I hope Yahoo! has invested some technology in detecting sock puppetry by IP address, but I'm afraid people will go for the easy pickings. This is a good concept that can work well or be perverted. We should be educating our clients to use the concept properly.
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Natasha · Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 35

I agree we must take steps to educate our client accordingly..

Angelica · Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 60

Maybe it’s a good thing that I didn’t go to SES Chicago; I’m trying to fight off a bit of a cold. On the other hand, it sounds like Charles Martin did a great job on the Q&A on links panel. One small tweak in that write-up: Charles doesn’t work for me and would probably laugh loudly at the suggestion. Smile

He’s in a completely different part of Google’s quality group.

Since I can’t be in Chicago, I’ll talk about the site clinic panel from the last conference I was at. I’ll be touching on a few things from this panel, also covered here. The first thing I noticed was that the only space left up at the speakers’ table was all the way on the end; I got to sit next to Bruce Clay.

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