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For years I have steered clear of Google Business Reviews after I realised that Google Business has no systems to deal with these. If a client has a fake or harmful review posted on their Business Profile, I head straight to Google Legal and remove the review – thank God for legal sanity, sorry US […]
A Google review can be removed from your Google My Business listing for a number of reasons, from automatic spam detection, account suspension to simply being deleted by the user. The usual question we see is, “Why are my Google My Business reviews being removed / missing?” and the crucial misunderstanding in that question is […]
Fake Reviews have plagued Google My Business for the past 10yrs and with the increasing amount of fake review networks being created (to sell fake reviews to businesses) the problem seems to be out of control. Google My Business tackles these both manually and algorithmically, but as any regular reader knows, I typically call out […]
Typically I don’t post much on businesses buying fake reviews, but in compiling an escalation to the Google My Business spam team I noticed a whole wrath of negative 1 star reviews for the Danish Island of Fanø. What did Fanø do to deserve this? Rooftop Livings Fake Reviews Fake reviews are not too […]
This Small Business in Leeds is Going Out of Business Because of Google, is not clickbait, its not sensationalist, it is the very scary truth of how Google’s inability to manage negative review attacks on a Google Business Listing is leading to the closure of a small business in Leeds. For those of you that […]
Finding or manually creating a Google review link for service area business (SAB) listings is quite frankly a pain in the ass, that is until I came across a new Google Review tool and generating your google review link could not be easier. Whats more, unlike some of the other tools available, it does not […]
Excuse the title of the article, but it highlights just how ridiculous Google Reviews have become and why does Google My Business even allow reviews for a prison listing?. The first clue for Google My Business should be in their own Business Guidelines, “n order to qualify for a Google My Business listing, a business […]
How long do Google Reviews that have been flagged as inappropriate take to be removed? The process of flagging the review in theory follows a simple route. You flag the review as inappropriate (violating a particular guideline) this then gets queue’d up for a human to look at and decide if the review does violate […]
Google My Business (Business Pages on Google Maps) lack any credible spam algorithms and it should scare the heck out of businesses. The reason Google has got away with this for so long is the simple fact that 70% of all Google Business Pages are unclaimed (un-managed) which means the business does not realise the […]
It comes as no surprise when you find your business listed in a Ripoff Report for apparent Google Business Page reviews when you have been taking on Review Spam for the past couple of years. The only question why did it take a pissed of spammer this long to use Ripoff Report? When you take […]
