How to Deal with Fake Negative Reviews on Google
Fake reviews are a growing problem for those of us that own small businesses. In the online world, it's extremely easy to create a new account and leave either a positive or negative review for any business — regardless of whether you’ve ever tried to hire them Webhelpz . Google has tons of policies for users that leave reviews. But in my experience they're terrible at automatically catching violations of these policies. At my agency, my team spends time each month carefully monitoring reviews for our clients and their competitors. The good news is that if you’re diligent at tracking them and can make a good enough case for why the reviews are against the guidelines, you can get them removed by contacting Google on Twitter, Facebook, or reporting via the forum. Recently, my company got hit with three negative reviews, all left in the span of 5 minutes: Two of the three reviews were ratings without reviews. These are the hardest to get rid of because Google will normally te