See Tickets Spamming Google Maps?
I’ve recently started working in Manchester City center so been looking at Google maps for local places to eat at dinner. As ever, the first place to look is Google Maps. After a few clicks on locations strangely See Tickets, a ticket sales company seems to have claimed a lot of local listings that have nothing to do with them, thus having a link to their site.
Each one links to seetickets.com
Looking at the locations is it possible that See Tickets could sell ticket for the Palace Theatre, but not for 5th Ave a nightclub or Retro Bar.
A search for “see tickets” with the map in Manchester brings up some great results:
Piccadilly Gardens (Bus stop and open space)
The old ODEON on Oxford road which shut down about five years ago.
The big wheel in the Triangle
and Long Legs a gentlemen’s club.
All of the links go to http://www.seetickets.com/see/index.asp? and it looks like see tickets haven’t stopped there, they’ve done the same for locations in London too!
You can imagine tourists trying to buy a ticket from See Tickets to go to Parliament for the day!
Anyone else getting this for their location? Go to your local area on Google maps and search “see tickets”
Interesting post.
Some other company is doing it as well..searchingall.co.uk…when you type”tickets” into Google Maps
with M1 as the default location, they come up under “Coldplay Tickets” using a M1 PO BOX number.
As you can see from their site, they are nothing but a bunch of links to eBay, all with affiliate URLs embedded in them.
High time Google local was cleaned up. Check this out for spam….
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=tickets&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=tickets&hnear=Manchester,+Lancashire+M1&view=text&ei=0EX3Sv7mB6LNjAeAvLDVCQ&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=more-results&resnum=7&ved=0CDEQtQMwBg