Google has accidentally removed legit, policy-abiding reviews submitted by Local Guides from Google Maps. Google acknowledged the issue and said it is working on reinstating those reviews over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n
What happened. <\/strong>According to Google\u2019s Local Guides Connect blog, Google said<\/a> they are \u201cconstantly improving our moderation system to keep policy-violating content off the map.\u201d With those efforts, Google said its \u201cprotections took down more than expected policy abiding reviews from a set of Local Guides.\u201d Google added that they \u201cacknowledge that this change has affected a lot of your accounts,\u201d and is working to restore the reviews that were impacted.<\/p>\n Fixing the issue. <\/strong>Google said, \u201cas part of our efforts to resolve this situation, we have launched an update to our protections to fix them.\u201d Google added that the search company \u201cwill also automatically reinstate\u201d any of the policy-abiding reviews over the \u201cnext few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n What if your review is not reinstated. <\/strong>Google said if your policy-abiding review is not reinstated, then you can submit a request through\u00a0this form<\/a> to challenge the decision. <\/p>\n Why we care. <\/strong>If you noticed your reviews are not going through as a Local Guide, Google says to continue to post reviews as normal, and they will automatically fix the issues. At least, you can hope Google does, and if not, you can always request Google to manually review your submission.<\/p>\n So you may see a number of reviews previously not listed on your business show up in a few weeks when Google reruns its review protections.<\/p>\n The post Google Maps removed policy-abiding reviews from Local Guides<\/a> appeared first on Search Engine Land<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google has accidentally removed legit, policy-abiding reviews submitted by Local Guides from Google Maps. Google acknowledged the issue and said it is working on reinstating those reviews over the next few weeks. What happened. According to Google\u2019s Local Guides Connect blog, Google said they are \u201cconstantly improving our moderation system to keep policy-violating content off the map.\u201d With those efforts, Google said its \u201cprotections took down more than expected policy abiding reviews from a set of Local Guides.\u201d Google added that they \u201cacknowledge that this change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}