What's the deal with this local business directory? (http://www.camerchants.com/)
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They have a couple listings of us with screwy info but i can't actually use their website, all the buttons that say "join" or "write a review" "uplaod an image" etc, are just an href="#" and don't actually do anything???
I figured maybe they have some broken javascript so i tried using different browsers (firefox & chrome in mac, and IE in windows.)
Here's our listings in there:
http://www.camerchants.com/Business/Storage+-+Self+Service/Storwell.Self.Storage/MTAyODAzNQ#
http://www.camerchants.com/Business/Movers/Storwell.Self.Storage/MTEwMjMyOQ
http://www.camerchants.com/Business/Movers/Storwell.Self.Storage/MTEwMjMyOA
http://www.camerchants.com/Business/Recreational+Vehicles+Storage/Storwell.Self.Storage/MTAyODU4OQ#Are you able to click anything on this website and it actually functions as advertised? am i just using the wrong browser, or is this some kind of tool competitors use to blackhat our local listings into oblivion?
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Hey! thanks for the info! this is awesome, i'll give them a call tomorrow and see if it gets me anywhere.
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Interestingly another site has been register and the same email address listed but a half different name and very different location....not sure if this is of any use.....
Billing Contact Name: anson shawn Billing Contact Address1: South Quebec Street, Billing Contact City: Englewood Billing Contact State/Province: Colorado Billing Contact Postal Code: 80111 Billing Contact Country: United States Billing Contact Country Code: US Billing Contact Phone Number: +1.3037418888 Billing Contact Email: anson.x@[gmail.com](http://dawhois.com/index.php?query=gmail.com)
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Looks like this site is "owned" by someone in Guangzhou, China. They may have scraped the content at some point and have little or no desire to amend it.
You said you had no luck emailing the site, how about sending a message via Facebook....
http://www.facebook.com/people/Anson-Xiao/572759798
...or using the domain owners gmail address anson.x@gmail.com
or can even try calling +86.13560182003
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There are non-public databases that many online yellow page-type websites get their data from. I don't know where to find a list of them, though. Sorry I can't be more help. Maybe someone else will chime in with suggestions.
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I've fixed all the others. at least all the others that i can find with extensive googling and whitesparks tools. Not sure how to look for other incorrect listings out there.
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Are you sure this site is the source Google Places is using to add the location? Another possibility is that this site and Google Places are both getting their data from the same source...
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One of those listings keeps getting google places to add another location for us, at a random address. I'm not sure how to fix this. I've tried e-mnailing the site, i've tried using the site. i'm at a loss...
The only thing i can think of is DDNS'ing the site with a botnet.
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The site doesn't appear to be fully functional, that's for sure. Hard to say - maybe it is an abandoned or unfinished website, or maybe they just have some broken features. It almost looks unfinished to me - like they started building it and didn't finish.
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