Shelly
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One of my client's largest competitors (Adam French, L.Ac) has review spam and I am not sure how to notify Google. While he only has 11 reviews, and a few are legit, when you start looking into each of his individual reviewers, it is clear that many that have reviewed his business have also reviewed a variety of the same other businesses across the country, using very similar language on each.
For example one of his reviewers also left a review on this business:
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Here you see a lot of the same reviewers as on the listing in question, and you see our competitor that also left a review here.
There are other business owners appearing to do reciprocal reviews as well. I know in this field there are a lot of small business forums where they all talk to one another and my guess is they are reviewing each other's businesses to help them in Google.
Here are a few of the individual reviewers Google profiles. You will see a lot of duplicates.
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Is there a way Google can be notified to have these reviews removed? It is not straight forward spam that could be caught simply by flagging them.
For example one of his reviewers also left a review on this business:
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There are other business owners appearing to do reciprocal reviews as well. I know in this field there are a lot of small business forums where they all talk to one another and my guess is they are reviewing each other's businesses to help them in Google.
Here are a few of the individual reviewers Google profiles. You will see a lot of duplicates.
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Is there a way Google can be notified to have these reviews removed? It is not straight forward spam that could be caught simply by flagging them.