Panda just hit my Google Places Clients

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I have clients that just dropped out of the Google places ranks and their reviews are gone. Not one was fake and no spam anything was used. So pissed. Matt, if you read this it would be nice if you would address those of us that have "quality content" and give "a good experience".

I wish Google would publish the F-ing rules for people that follow rules.

Sorry for the rant, just really pissed. Anyone else had this happen?

On another note I have sites that are going from page one in Google to falling out of the top 100 and then next day back to page one and then the next day gone again.

These are legit customers that sell real products and have real stores that have real employees. Google is really impacting the economy now.
 
Interesting. Were you using keywords in your company name?
 
No keywords were used in the company name. I don't think Google even allows you to save that.
 
Thats sounds really weird as for the first time I have seen such post at BHW complaining about effect of Panda on google places.
Lets wait and see if someone else has got this also or not.
 
I noticed my competition was using the keyword in his google places listing. Today I checked and his reviews were gone as well as he is no longer using the keyword in his google places listing, now it is just his official company name. (as its supposed to be)
 
What if the company name is the domain name? Does Google not allow this?
 
From what I understand, you shouldnt have your Domain as your Company name. It needs to be the name of the company as seen and promoted to local clients. Obviously there could be some exceptions, though I'mnot sure if Google allows it either way.
 
This just happened to my clients as well.. should I even bother resubmitting the reviews and content?
 
It happend to me several times. Sometimes reviews will come back but dont count on it.
 
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I haven't used Google Places much yet. I know how you feel though. Google has so many rules it's hard to keep up.
 
I think i have read about this somewhere in online before with some recovery tips but can't seem to find it now.I will post that blog link(i remember it was a blog) once i find it.
 
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