Google Reviews Removal - Algo Update?

[Materia]

Have a handful of businesses that lost up to half of their G reviews recently. Anyone else seeing the same thing or hit hard?

Any info on a new update out there? Thanks & best.

 

[coolsheet]

Nah I haven't seen anything like that....

Are they your clients? And did you pay for the reviews?

 

[Materia]

Some are mine, some are clients. And yes, a mix.

I'm guessing the commonality is the review supplier was same...?

 

[Ohboyj]

I haven't seen any changes to the algorithm

 

[sportsline]

If you add fake reviews they will be removed for sure ! May you use google api for posting reviews, it will helpful for sticky reviews

 

[coolsheet]

If you add fake reviews they will be removed for sure ! May you use google api for posting reviews, it will helpful for sticky reviews

Use the Google api for posting reviews??? What are you talking about?

 

[sportsline]

Use the Google api for posting reviews??? What are you talking about?

May you read this article

https://developers.google.com/my-business/content/review-data

 

[Flavio A]

May you read this article

I think you can only reply the reviews from bulk places, not posting new reviews as a user, but only answer as a owner

 

[coolsheet]

May you read this article

Just no dude. You don't leave reviews via an API. What customer would use an API to leave a review? No one would and no one does, therefore using an API would look unnatural as hell. And I can guarantee 99.99% of customers don't know wth an API even is.

EDIT: I read the article page you posted the link to, and this has noting to do with leaving reviews and is more for developers that want to create their own reporting dashboards or whatever. These APIs are to organize and pull in your existing reviews. Know what you're saying before posting. Looks like you're just attempting to drive up your post count.

 

[dealspees]

If you add lot's within a short time. Definitely they'll get remove.

 

[seo_alexa002]

If Multiple Reviews from Same IP , Google May Filter Them

If Multiple Reviews at Same Time , Google May Filter Them