These removals are not unique to any one industry and is simply Google looking more closely at reviews to take down any that their filter deems to be illegitimate. The SEO community shared an update this month (October 2022) explaining how Google is still taking down reviews in waves. This spike is indicative of the mass pruning of Google reviews and removing them in large quantities. Mike Blumenthal shared this graph to show the spike. Starting in February of 2022, the local search forum had an influx of complaints about reviews gone missing. Many times, however, it will remove legitimate reviews by mistake. Google uses an AI to review and filter any reviews that it finds to be spam or not a genuine experience. We’ve compiled the full details on what is happening and what you can do – in some cases – if your reviews are getting removed. There has been an increase of complaints from business owners that their customer reviews are missing, never got published, or have been deleted. This year has been extremely volatile for Google reviews.

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