| Is this way of soliciting reviews Bad? | jliles29 | 13/01/02 13:03 | Before posting a new thread: Please check the sticky notes at the top of the forum (you'll know it's a sticky because it will have a little pushpin icon). Many of your questions have already been addressed by these stickies, which cover product updat |
| Re: Is this way of soliciting reviews Bad? | `Keenan | 13/01/02 14:56 | Here's the policy guideline... Don’t offer money or product to others to write reviews for your business... As a reviewer, you should not accept money or product from a business to write a review about them. Sounds pretty clear to me. |
| Re: Is this way of soliciting reviews Bad? | jliles29 | 13/01/02 15:15 | @keenan. Thank you for the quick reply. Now what should I do with the information that I have about this company doing this process? How should I report this? |
| Re: Is this way of soliciting reviews Bad? | JoyHawkins | 13/01/02 16:32 | Holy crap, that's a lot of reviews for a plumber. I'm kinda surprised given the review filter that has been wiping out reviews left right and center. I'm assuming this is not your business right? I can escalate it to Google to see what the recomme |
| Re: Is this way of soliciting reviews Bad? | jliles29 | 13/01/02 16:39 | Hello Joy,Thank you for the response. This is not my business but I was made aware by my friend that asked "Was this allowed" when he got this from roto rooter, I would love to know the "recommended procedure" as you stated. |
| Re: Is this way of soliciting reviews Bad? | JoyHawkins | 13/01/02 16:46 | I'm checking with Google to see what a recommended action would be here. Stay tuned... I still can't believe all those reviews have stuck. Crazy... |
| Re: Is this way of soliciting reviews Bad? | `Keenan | 13/01/02 16:57 | I don't think there is a procedure. I suppose you could flag the reviews as a conflict of interest. |
| Re: Is this way of soliciting reviews Bad? | Darek | 13/01/02 17:49 | Wow! That's impressive. It'll take me a life- time to even get close to 50 reviews. Something is definitely fishy here. |
| Re: Is this way of soliciting reviews Bad? | jliles29 | 13/01/03 12:10 | I have another update from another business in the same area as this thread. Standard Heating and Air conditioning has come up with a way to get reviews based on a promise to give the charity you choose $25. Although I really like the idea to reach $ |
| Re: Is this way of soliciting reviews Bad? | Jade W | 13/01/03 13:05 | Just clarifying that it is against our reviews guidelines to trade money for reviews, so, yes, this sort of solicitation would be against the reviews guidelines. http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=187622 |
| Re: Is this way of soliciting reviews Bad? | jliles29 | 13/01/04 18:56 | Thank you everyone for chiming in and making the review process clear as water to me. |