{"id":973,"date":"2022-04-22T21:52:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T21:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/?p=973"},"modified":"2022-04-22T21:52:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T21:52:34","slug":"google-reviews-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/google-reviews-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Reviews Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Reviews matter to retailers and service providers from plumbers, restaurants and realtors. In a rare insight into how reviews are analyzed, Google has release the below video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TMjezeeGVfY\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It all seems intuitive and logical. At a practical level having dozens of clients that we manage Google My Business Pages for, we note there is a no exact correlation between the number of reviews and rankings of companies in Google results pages, both on Google Search and Google Maps Pack.<\/p>\n<p>While most of the time businesses with higher Google scores (gold stars) rank higher, it&#8217;s not an absolute guarantee. Some simple tips before your business reports asks Google to review \/ delete a review can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/4596773?hl=en\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly Google wont take sides on facts as they can&#8217;t verify the incident so the best advice is to provide a measured, well balanced and non emotional response to a bad review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Reviews matter to retailers and service providers from plumbers, restaurants and realtors. In a rare insight into how reviews are analyzed, Google has release the below video. It all seems intuitive and logical. At a practical level having dozens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/google-reviews-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}