Google Places Reviews

[CaseyKluver]

Has anyone had any delays on Google+ reviews to show up? We have multiple clients who have not received a new review in over two months. These are good accounts with good Zagat scores with 15+ good reviews from real customers. Our clients have asked their clients and have confirmed that there has been reviews left recently. However no new reviews have shown up in the past 60+ days.

[fishpunt]

This has been an on-going issue with Google Places and many other local directories. A majority of them are being flagged for spam for several reasons.

Some of the reasons that I've found are:

• Profile not active, verified, or 1st review
• Over capitalization
• Short generic feedback (i.e. "They were great! A+")
• IP address marked from multiple accounts or login location

I started noticing this issue when Google shifted all local listings into Google+. I've been following threads in http://productforums.google.com/forum/ but have yet to see anything about changes or fixes to this issue.

Some other sites that I've noticed similiar issues:

• Yelp.com
• Citysearch.com
• Yahoo! Local
• YP.com

Thread going since Nov 7 about similiar issue at http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/business/G7RFGxn2cIU

I cant seem to find the other threads that I saw before.