All Google Reviews acquired over 4 years have been removed from GBP: How do we get them back?

[JamesGreenaway]

Good Morning,

Our client is a reputable Hyundai car dealership in the UK.
Over the last few years its built up its Google Reviews . Last week for no reason ALL the reviews (over 200 disappeared)
We've raised a support ticket with GBP Support and are getting nowhere, we get the same response each time.

"We understand your concern regarding the reviews that are not reflecting on your business profile. We deeply regret what has happened to you. We looked through every source we could think of to see if I could locate the reviews you said were missing, but I was sadly unable to find any reviews. Let me describe the review system's operation to you. Every time a customer leaves a review, the algorithm used to secure your business content and uphold your customers' trustworthiness checks it out first.
Sometimes, the legitimate reviews might also be removed by the algorithms. I am being honest here, we would not be able to reinstate such reviews. Please go through our review policies. We suggest you ask the reviewers to go through the review content policies and repost them. Also, we suggest you advise the customers not to post the reviews multiple times. "


The frustrating thing is all the reviews are still live in Google, they are just not appearing against the GBP profile . Here are just some examples

Google review of Guildford Hyundai by Joe Darbon

Google review of Guildford Hyundai by Alan Cooper

Google review of Guildford Hyundai by Hilal F. Yildirim

Google review of Guildford Hyundai by Richard Burrell

Google review of Guildford Hyundai by Guy Whittaker

Google review of Guildford Hyundai by Tinika Ascoli

Google review of Guildford Hyundai by Ricky

Google review of Guildford Hyundai by John Jenner

Can anyone help us and our valuable client?

Best Regards,

Raphael

 

[keyserholiday]

Please create a thread here asking for help. This needs to be escalated directly to Google.

 

[JamesGreenaway]

already done @keyserholiday Over 200 Google reviews built up over years all removed with no valid explanation - Google Business Profile Community

I came here in the hope that someone like @BenFisher or someone else could shed some light, there is not much they havent seen!

 

[keyserholiday]

already done @keyserholiday Over 200 Google reviews built up over years all removed with no valid explanation - Google Business Profile Community

I came here in the hope that someone like @BenFisher or someone else could shed some light, there is not much they havent seen!

Lots of are flying to Denver today for a conference but maybe @JoyHawkins can hop in and assist.

 

[JS Girard]

Out of those reviews, a lot are hitting the new filter that blocks first reviews. People who leave only one review in their career? Google doesn't accept that anymore. And yes google will sometime go back and filter older cases of such.

 

[keyserholiday]

Out of those reviews, a lot are hitting the new filter that blocks first reviews. People who leave only one review in their career? Google doesn't accept that anymore. And yes google will sometime go back and filter older cases of such.

This is completely unrelated. The reviews are live in the profiles, yet missing from the business profile. This is a technical issue and not the review filter.

 

[JS Girard]

This is completely unrelated. The reviews are live in the profiles, yet missing from the business profile. This is a technical issue and not the review filter.

I'm confused because "review shows up when looking at the reviewer's profile but not on the GBP" is exactly the behavior I expect to see from that specific filter. Have I fundamentally misunderstood something from the articles published about it?

Obviously I can't comment on the cases that clearly are not that, but (say) the John Jenner one is exactly what I expect to see happening if the review hits that one filter. And it's the only review that user has ever left. AND it was left after the filter in question came into force.

 

[keyserholiday]

I'm confused because "review shows up when looking at the reviewer's profile but not on the GBP" is exactly the behavior I expect to see from that specific filter. Have I fundamentally misunderstood something from the articles published about it?

Obviously I can't comment on the cases that clearly are not that, but (say) the John Jenner one is exactly what I expect to see happening if the review hits that one filter. And it's the only review that user has ever left. AND it was left after the filter in question came into force.

If Google was filtering out the reviews, we would be able to see the review on the reviewer’s profile. Only the reviewer can see the review and nobody else. This is an issue in Google’s end and absent of the review filter. The business profile shows zero reviews, I’ve never seen Google remove all of the reviews on a profile except for a glitch like this.

 

[JamesGreenaway]

Thanks @keyserholiday lets see what Joy, Ben or someone else comes back with.

Client understandably is very frustrated. GBP support so far have been useless.

 

[keyserholiday]

Thanks @keyserholiday lets see what Joy, Ben or someone else comes back with.

Client understandably is very frustrated. GBP support so far have been useless.

I completely understand but it’s pointless to get frustrated.

 

[JoyHawkins]

I'm a bit late but I just chimed in and will escalate the thread once I get those details

 

[JamesGreenaway]

Hi Joy,

Thanks for responding.

Ive added the details requested here Over 200 Google reviews built up over years all removed with no valid explanation - Google Business Profile Community

Really hope we can get this sorted !

 

[JamesGreenaway]

just to confirm reviews we're reinstated! Thanks @JoyHawkins !