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Google Places Makes A Critical Change

by TimCastleman
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Instead of writing for an hour on it here's a quick video on a recent change Google Places has made that can mess with your rankings!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCxrIwLTB_Y
#change #critical #google #makes #places
  • Profile picture of the author Scott Voss
    Tim,

    Very nice share. I'll be interested to see what they start doing if duplicate reviews pop up between Google and Yahoo.

    I wonder if all will show or if one will take preference over the other.

    -Scott
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    • Profile picture of the author TimCastleman
      Originally Posted by Scott Voss View Post

      Tim,

      Very nice share. I'll be interested to see what they start doing if duplicate reviews pop up between Google and Yahoo.

      I wonder if all will show or if one will take preference over the other.

      -Scott
      Scott -

      I am going to test it out and let you know my friend.
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      • Profile picture of the author rbrShorty
        Hey Tim,

        Not sure I got it. You mean that Google Places is scraping reviews on Yahoo! Local and associating them with the Google Places listings? Well if yes, that's definitely not something new and it happens all the time. Google associates reviews from third-party directories such as Yelp, Yahoo Local, Citysearch with the Place page of the respective business all the time for the past few years. Not sure if that's what you meant though.

        @Scott - nothing will happen. These are two completely different ways of getting the reviews. One is reviews left by Google Users directly on the Place page and the other is basically content scraped from some third-party directory and associated with the Place page. There wouldn't be even a problem if you have the same review on Google Places, Yahoo, Yelp, Bing, etc. Google would not care if reviews are same as long as they are not the same left by two different GOOGLE USERS directly on the Place page.
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        • Profile picture of the author Catalyst eMarketing
          I'm with you Nyagoslav, when I watched it before I kept thinking I was missing something. Isn't this just the same old scraped reviews G has done for a very long time. Or is there something subtle that's different that we are missing?
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        • Profile picture of the author Scott Voss
          Originally Posted by rbrShorty View Post

          @Scott - nothing will happen. These are two completely different ways of getting the reviews. One is reviews left by Google Users directly on the Place page and the other is basically content scraped from some third-party directory and associated with the Place page. There wouldn't be even a problem if you have the same review on Google Places, Yahoo, Yelp, Bing, etc. Google would not care if reviews are same as long as they are not the same left by two different GOOGLE USERS directly on the Place page.
          I wasn't thinking of some sort of penalty for having the same reveiw, but rather was wondering if it would display the same review text from more than one place on the page. So, I think we are in agreement that there wouldn't be any problems. Just curious as to what would actually be displayed.

          If the big G won't display the exact same text, then it might be wise to counsel customers to not post the same exact review on multiple places, but to make them unique. If that is the situation (about what it is displaying) then this might increase the likely hood of your best reviews showing up on the places page.

          But thank you for the amazing revelation that a Yahoo review on a Google Places page is from a third-party to Google.
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          • Profile picture of the author rbrShorty
            Originally Posted by Scott Voss View Post

            I wasn't thinking of some sort of penalty for having the same reveiw, but rather was wondering if it would display the same review text from more than one place on the page. So, I think we are in agreement that there wouldn't be any problems. Just curious as to what would actually be displayed.

            If the big G won't display the exact same text, then it might be wise to counsel customers to not post the same exact review on multiple places, but to make them unique. If that is the situation (about what it is displaying) then this might increase the likely hood of your best reviews showing up on the places page.

            But thank you for the amazing revelation that a Yahoo review on a Google Places page is from a third-party to Google.
            As I said, reviews from third-party websites are scraped content and Google does not really care if there are exactly same review texts on Yahoo and Citysearch. It will scrape both of them and by the time it will associate them with the Place page of the business. I would be also interested to know the motives of a customer to post reviews on numerous websites, let alone them being exactly the same for exactly the same business.

            And you are welcome re the revelation. I felt you needed some enlightenment on the topic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Always-A-Warrior
    nice share. thanks for the great tip my friend.
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  • Profile picture of the author O0o0O
    This is a very interesting development. I'll have to look into this further.
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  • Profile picture of the author e30drifter
    it sounded like a nad news...but I think it really isn't
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  • Profile picture of the author KabirC
    So will it or won't it show the exact same text from the reviews?
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  • Profile picture of the author rbrShorty
    It will. But I will repeat again - it is bizarre that a customer would take the time to write one and the same review on more than one place for one and the same business.
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