Google has up to date its Google Maps contributor tips, particularly disallowing a enterprise to incentivize those that go away adverse critiques to take away these critiques. Beforehand, the rules solely prohibited incentivizing leaving optimistic critiques.
The up to date guideline will be discovered over right here below the misleading content material and pretend engagement part. It now reads “Contributions to Google Maps ought to mirror a real expertise at a spot or enterprise. Pretend engagement will not be allowed and can be eliminated.” Google continued “Content material that has been incentivized by a enterprise in alternate for reductions, free items and/or providers.” And the brand new part now says “This consists of service provider requests for revision or removing of a adverse evaluation by means of provided reductions, free items or providers, or different incentives.”
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This was noticed first by Pleasure Hawkins on Twitter.
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