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I have had the same issue for the 10 years that I have been in business. I am a residential service contractor, I have had thousands of customers who have been very happy with my work. They call me back for more work and they refer me to their friends, family, and coworkers often. Yet they...

I have had reviews filtered for my business for many many years. These are real reviews from real customers who already had established Gmail account. I figured it was just part of the normal Google spam filtering, nothing is ever perfect so I figured those good reviews were casualties of a...

Does that benefit taper off after 150 or so reviews or do you still receive benefit obtaining more?

There’s another new thread talking about this review extortion. You’ll find a link to the proper reporting page on Google. https://localsearchforum.com/threads/1-star-review-extortion.62885/

isn’t that the epitome of black hat SEO?

I think all businesses would like to have their negative reviews removed. But then there would be no purpose to the review system if that was possible. You said that they were fake reviews.

I think he means legitimacy to the potential customers reading them. If the owner replies to the reviews explaining why the negative issue happened, it’s symbolizing that the review is legitimate and not fake.

These reviews are very old, what makes them fake?

Wow, I had no idea you couldn’t do this. I’ve used my same Gmail address that I got back at the beginning when it was invitation only for my personal Google Maps account in which I am a local guide and also for my business’s Google business profile. I never received any type of warning out in...

Do you still use the redressal form? That stopped working for me a while back.

It’s there for me:

Thank you for the reply. So I’ve done what you mentioned with a bunch of them, nothing comes up on Google when searching for the pages with the “site:” attribute. So leaving them as 404 isn’t going to negatively affect me?

I’m getting nearly 50 404 errors in Google Search Console. They are pages that never existed, for some reason Google put together weird combinations of directories and webpages. For example it will have a service page but in a directory for a location page. None of that has ever existed and...

Can you explain a little more about this please? Maybe an example of what should be avoided and how it should be done properly?

If it’s OK I would like to add onto this thread instead of starting something new, since my question is directly related… I am an electrician. Every couple weeks I have to go into GBP and edit my services to remove the ones that Google automatically adds that have absolutely nothing to do with...