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Un-hijacking local SEO, one bubble tea at a time

19 Apr 2021 🔖 web development
💬 EN

Fact: My Huong Kitchen on “Eat Street” in Minneapolis (Nicollet Ave) has the best bubble tea in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA region. Always fresh-blended from frozen fruit, never powdered. The savory food is also delicately well-flavored, in case you care about more than your sugar rush.

The store is tiny – it’s the kind of precious hole in the wall you find through word of mouth – much harder to see than Quang, their famous neighbor across the street. Why is why I’m livid that some slimeball in Nevada decided, on April 16, 2020, to hijack their Google My Business and hold it ransom for hundreds of dollars a month as a pandemic descended upon the land.

I don’t think there’s anything I can do to get the thousands of dollars they were scammed, other than by asking all of you dear readers to tell every friend you have near Minneapolis to support Mỹ Hương Kitchen by trying every bubble tea on the menu and grabbing some bites to eat. (Seriously – please do that!)

But maybe I can help you, fellow techie, recognize the signs of a hijacked GMB page and free one of your local businesses from the clutches of SEO protection rackets.

Fraudulent site registry

Fraudulent Google Maps listing

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