{"id":411,"date":"2011-03-14T09:32:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2011-04-03T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T23:04:29","slug":"do-not-fake-google-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/do-not-fake-google-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Fake Google Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got this email:<\/p>\n<pre>comments = Google is now using business reviews to\r\ndetermine\r\nbusiness ranking. People are trashing companies with\r\nreviews, Complaint sites and Blogs.\r\n\r\nWe can help you defend your company by posting positive\r\n\u00a0Reviews, Blogs and creating Websites to take over\r\nSearch Results and control what people see about your company.\r\n\r\nXXX-XXX-1347 \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.posting-good-reviews.com\/\"><\/a>   for Review Posting Service\r\n  for Reviews and <a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/en\/reputation_system\" title=\"Reputation system\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reputation_system\">Reputation Service<\/a>\r\n\r\nHow does posting positive reviews help in your businesses\r\n\u00a0<a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/en\/pagerank\" title=\"PageRank\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PageRank\">Google ranking<\/a>?\r\n\r\n1. Positive reviews increase your business rank by\r\nlinking important and relevant websites to your website.\r\n2. A constant stream of positive reviews improves your\r\nonline reputation.\r\n3. Positive reviews drive traffic to your business.\r\n4. Positive reviews restore a tarnished reputation\r\nby\r\npushing down negative reviews and links.\r\n5. Helps protect against competitors or anyone else\r\nfrom attempting to run your ranking.\r\n\r\nThis service makes no sense. When you are on their web\r\nsite it seems to imply they are going to write fake\r\nreviews for you. People can spot these from miles\r\naway, and by posting fake reviews you muck up the entire\r\ntrust people may have in on line reviews.\r\n\r\nThe best system for on line reviews (and they are important)\r\nis to let your real customers post them. Just send them\r\nan email requesting that they go to your Google Places or\r\nany other on line review site, and tell the world how you\r\ndid.<\/pre>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/02\/fake-reviews-starting-to-get-mainstream-media-attention\/\">Fake Reviews Starting to Get Mainstream Media Attention<\/a> (blumenthals.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=03bcbda1-8e1d-4554-85d0-f60ddd829d67\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Do+Not+Fake+Google+Reviews+http%3A%2F%2Fsalesjumpstart.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D411\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Do+Not+Fake+Google+Reviews+http%3A%2F%2Fsalesjumpstart.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D411\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got this email: comments = Google is now using business reviews to determine business ranking. People are trashing companies with reviews, Complaint sites and Blogs. We can help you defend your company by posting positive \u00a0Reviews, Blogs and creating Websites to take over Search Results and control what people see about your company. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/do-not-fake-google-reviews\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do Not Fake Google Reviews<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,79],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-line-reviews","tag-google-places","tag-google-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}