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Review-Gating is Against the Google My Business Guidelines

https://www.sterlingsky.ca/review-gating-is-now-against-the-google-my-business-guidelines/

By Joy Hawkins on Nov 12, 2018 08:01 am

Updated: November 12, 2018 to reflect that review gating is not a new policy that Google initiated in April 2018 and added examples of cases where Google acted on businesses that were review gating. When I saw the review guidelines change on April 12, 2018, I assumed that Google had updated their policies to indicate..

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