Fake 4-Star Reviews that don't violate Google Policy!
have been having problems with my GMB account for almost half year now.
The first problem can be read on this link. Basically, my old reviews got reported to be removed and I lost five or six 5-star legitimate reviews.
The second problem is, someone reported my business as "closed", although I am always active. But for this one Google called me to confirm, and I told them I am active, so they didn't remove my account.
The third one I am having right now, is that I got two fake 4-star reviews (Robbe Mēlissa and
The first problem can be read on this link. Basically, my old reviews got reported to be removed and I lost five or six 5-star legitimate reviews.
The second problem is, someone reported my business as "closed", although I am always active. But for this one Google called me to confirm, and I told them I am active, so they didn't remove my account.
The third one I am having right now, is that I got two fake 4-star reviews (Robbe Mēlissa and
Helen Lamoureux). I reported them as spam, called GMB team, GMB agent escalated this issue to their specialist team, but they just decided not remove them because they don't violate their policy.
I think that's the whole point of why they left "good" (but fake) 4-star reviews. Google won't remove them because they are good reviews!! But until they left the 4-star reviews, I had all 5-star reviews. So these "good" fake 4-stars made my rating down to 4.9 stars. GMB agent said it's still good status but that's not really the point. It really does not make sense that I cannot remove fake reviews!
I think that's the whole point of why they left "good" (but fake) 4-star reviews. Google won't remove them because they are good reviews!! But until they left the 4-star reviews, I had all 5-star reviews. So these "good" fake 4-stars made my rating down to 4.9 stars. GMB agent said it's still good status but that's not really the point. It really does not make sense that I cannot remove fake reviews!
And I just came to this forum to ask this question and there is another photographer having exactly the same issue!
Is there anything else I can do to remove the fake reviews from my account?
Is there anything else I can do to remove the fake reviews from my account?
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