Google released the Google April 2023 Reviews Update today, April 12, 2023 at noon EST (9 AM PDT). This update leans heavily on signals of experience. Google’s April 2023 Product Review Update is accompanied by a new Google Search Central documentation that offers direction to the kind of content that Google’s Reviews System Algorithm may … Read more
Google has released the April 2023 product reviews update. This is the second product reviews update of 2023 and the seventh overall. Announcement. The update was announced on Twitter: Released the April 2023 reviews update, which now covers reviews about products, services, and things. Learn more about how to write high quality reviews:https://t.co/tdM0JhyyTG — Google … Read more
Consumers lose trust – in a big way – when a product or service doesn’t have a 4- or 5-star rating in online reviews, according to a new survey. Why we care. Some products and services live or die by the online reviews they get. There is a massive drop in trust between a 4-star … Read more
Google released spam and fraud prevention stats for Google Maps and local search. In short, Google blocked 21% more reviews, 5% more photos, 40% more videos, and 5% more fake business profiles in 2022 than they did in 2021. Google removed or blocked 115 million reviews, 200 million user-contributed photos, 7 million user-contributed videos and … Read more
Wish you had more reviews and better ratings? Wish people left more comments? Look no further… In this article, we show you how you can exchange social actions with other SERPed members using our Social Exchanger tool. This tool brings all SERPed members together and allows them to help each other by exchanging social actions, … Read more
Google published a blog post that shared that they updated their machine learning systems in order to catch and remove more fake reviews, fake business listings and fraudulent contributed images and videos. The automated systems and human review teams removed over 200 million photos, 7 million videos and blocked or removed over 115 million reviews, … Read more
Well, SEOs and site owners had a heck of an end to the summer of 2022. It all started with the Helpful Content Update (HCU), which rolled out on August 25, 2022. The rollout of Google’s new site-wide signal took a little more than two weeks to complete (and it only seemed to impact the … Read more
Reviews and recommendations go a long way in driving decision-making with potential customers. Additionally, they impact each location’s online visibility since Google ranks review signals highly in the Local Pack algorithm. In fact, review signals were among the top three local pack/finder ranking factors in Whitespark’s 2023 Local Search Ranking Factors study for all industries. … Read more
For small local businesses, positive customer reviews are extremely valuable. They can help make your business more credible and trustworthy, and positive customer reviews can also directly increase conversions and revenue. In this blog post, we will share a few tips and strategies on how you can ask and get more positive reviews and testimonials … Read more
On February 23, 2023, Google announced the rollout of its latest product reviews updates. This is the sixth iteration of Google’s latest guidelines for product review content. Google made the official announcement via its Search Central Twitter account: Today we released the February 2023 product reviews update, which applies to these languages globally: English, Spanish, … Read more
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