If you are not yet aware of Qype, Qype is a social networking review site that offers members to create, edit and add reviews to local businesses.
Qype has been providing some of the Google Maps/Places additional data such as reviews for 2 years now and in terms of an easy to use website where you can find information on businesses it’s great – we love it!
Today it was brought to my attention that one of our clients had a duplicate listing created on 01/03/2011 – When we looked in to it we could clearly see this ‘unverified listing’ had been created by supplementary data sent by Qype to Google.
Good News!
Fortunately we were able to verify the duplicate Qype listing by phone call and suspend it.
Keep Both Eyes Open
But remember to keep an eye on what information is being sent to Google about your business. You never know when a duplicate listing is going to be created and sometimes you don’t have the option to verify your listing by phone.