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 […]
Google apparently has an Algorithm that detects fake and spam reviews. This supposed algo detects copied reviews, fake reviews, reviews from same IP, it should also detect unusually large amounts of reviews added to a business listing compared to other similar listings. Well you can sling that all out the window, because I have come […]
It would seem that the Google Review Team have become philosophical in the handling of the reviews. “If a Review was removed for Spam, but then it gets re posted, is that Review Spam or Not?” My personal feelings on this is NO Google, there is no place for philosophical thought when it comes to […]
Google Reviews have become a thorn in the side of businesses and Google seems to be drowning. You only have to take a look at the Google My Business forum to see the review complaints. Yes I understand that millions of reviews are made a day and business can “flag inappropriate reviews“, good luck with […]
The single biggest reason that businesses are losing faith in Google My Business is the rise in fake business reviews, Google My Businesses seemingly incompatible review policies and the near impossibility of having a fake review being removed. It has gotten so bad in the Google My Business forums with fake reviews reporting, that unless […]
Are Google My Business Guidelines, spam algos and reporting systems working? I think not, but I’ll let you be the judge of that. The Businesses in Question There are any number of examples I could have picked but the Two business making Four listings in maps are in the same location which should in theory […]
Starting today in the US, Critics Reviews are being displayed in Google Business Pages. Mobile display is very refined and looks great, whilst the business Knowledge Panel in search looks like an after thought and will hopefully improve design wise. I also spotted a Quick Facts section displayed in the business info panel in desktop […]
This morning reading another expose on Google Maps Spam, this time about Drug Rehab Centers by KrebsonSecurity I realised that Google Maps has lost the Spam war. As a Google My Business TC I literally live on Google Maps and Google My Business, not only is it for my local SEO clients but also my […]
After the tragic events at Cincinnati Zoo there has been an outpouring of grief and anger, naturally this has led to negative reviews being places on the Cincinnati Zoo’s Google business page. Over the past week there have been hundreds of negative 1 star reviews left on the Google business page, so where is the […]
So you decided to hire a SEO company that would improve your visibility online, this included a review strategy, which turned out to be Fake Reviews and not from your customers, whats even worse is those fake good reviews are now becoming bad for business. Apart from fake reviews being illegal in the UK, any […]
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 […]
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