Need Help with Google Places Listings

[darylosswald]

I'm at whit's end. I do the internet marketing for a pretty large bail bonds company. Everything is centralized around local search and google places. I have authentic and verified and actual offices that I have listed in Google Places, most are top 3.

Problem: There are 3 bail bonds companies that have completely spammed the Google Places and every single address is fake, reviews are fake, their websites are 1000's of pages and much of it is duplicate content. I've filed reports to google web spam, google places, and everything I do, nothing happens. Not that it matters that these companies are also doing other illegal things to get bail bonds business,but just the fact that my hard work on SEO and local SEO can't compete with the $1000's that they are spending with an SEO company who also doesn't care about black hat SEO and black hat local SEO.

What can I do? Please help. What can I do to get Google to see the facade they are producing?

Important: I have tried to file reports through the report a problem link on the google places listing through a PROXY but the google site doesn't work through a proxy, DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A PROXY THAT WORKS WITH THE GOOGLE PLACES, REVIEWS, ETC???

[paulgl]

You're barking up the wrong tree.

Google places is not SEO, nor is it about websites.

You need relevancy, location, and most of all, ratings.

They got 'em aced it sounds like.

Google is not a police state. There's nothing illegal.

All is fair in love, war, and getting business from the internet.

Also, google does only get google places entries and info from
internal sources only. They get them from the local yellow pages,
yelp, etc. That's why you can go to any city or neighborhood and
see all the big chains already there. They did not send anything
to google. They cannot rely on people to send a business. They
want to list all they can.

Worry about doing good things for your client.

Paul