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Search Engine Land » SEO » New Google Merchant Center policy: AI-generated reviews are spam A new Google Merchant Center policy on “automated content” says reviews generated using an automated program or artificial intelligence application are considered spam and against the Google Merchant Center policies. Google posted this update here …

Processing…Please wait. Search Engine Land » Google » Google Algorithm Updates » Google’s March 2022 product reviews update was smaller than the December 2021 product reviews update, say data providers On March 23, 2022, Google begun rolling out the third product reviews update that added additional ranking signals to that …

  If you’re shopping for a gaming laptop, it’s important to check reviews before you buy. We’ve discussed this issue before in a CPU context, but it’s just as important in GPUs. A recent set of reviews from our sister site PCMag offer an illustrative example of why. PCMag just …

  The first reviews and head-to-head comparisons of Apple’s M1 are finally here. The new ARM core has been the subject of a great deal of speculation since Apple announced it would move away from Intel CPUs and towards its own designs. After some leaked individual tests, publications are finally …

Google is now testing a new method of displaying local reviews for the hotel industry by grouping and summarizing reviews by traveler type and category of service. Sergey Alakov first noticed this test, and he captured many screen shots of the Google local reviews test. I’ll summarize the big changes …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How Google assesses the ‘authority’ of web pagesMay 3, 2017 by Danny Sullivan Google has no single authority metric but rather uses a bucket of signals …

There are many reasons why a customer may choose to share their local experience with other customers on social review channels. Brands should be paying close attention to these reasons, aligning their response strategies to review sentiment in order to improve the customer experience. This guide from Brandify contains flows …

With yesterday’s release of iOS 10.3 and macOS 10.12.4, Apple has made a significant change to how its App Stores operate. At long last, developers now have the ability to respond to user reviews in order to offer support, ask follow-up questions, say thanks, or otherwise interact with their app’s customers. The …

Closing out the excellent first time slot in the Local track at SMX West this year was Thomas Ballantyne’s session about online reviews. Far too many business owners either ignore or don’t care about reviews, so Ballantyne — the director of marketing at Bulwark Pest Control — built his presentation …

It’s another month, so it’s time for another installment of Greg’s Soapbox. This time, we’re talking about reviews. Is it just me, or does it seem like we’re seeing more and more fake reviews out there lately? Sure, reviews are an important piece of the Local SEO puzzle, but they’re …