Is this spam? ;-] I have been doing a lot of playing with Google Places and the new HotPot user ranking/review product, and for once, you get an honest list of reviews by local people.
Only Google account holders can post reviews in the "by Google users" section. I believe they also have to have a public profile. So, trashing is possible, but you have to be able to back it up or you might find the local community shouting you down ;-] I really is a fairly neat twist on building a new kind of Yellow Pages... --steve On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:40, Eugene Zola <angelar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Google’s Huge Change and How it affects you. > > • Anyone can now post bad reviews and kill your rank. > • We post good reviews and improve your rank. > • We post good reviews to keep others from killing your rank. > > Google: Judge, Jury and Online Shopping Executioner > > Google rank is based on reviews of your business? > > Google Statement: > "...in the last few days we developed an algorithmic solution which detects > the merchant from the Times article along with hundreds of other merchants > that, in our opinion, provide an extremely poor user experience. The > algorithm we incorporated into our search rankings represents an initial > solution to this issue, and Google users are now getting a better > experience > as a result." > > This means that anyone can write bad reviews about your business and lower > your ranking. > We knew that getting good reviews and not getting bad reviews was always > important. Now it is a must to have good reviews for your business to keep > the rank safe or to improve rank with Google. > > We post positive reviews for your company. > > We have the experience and ability to post hundreds of positive reviews > that > are all unique content and posted on unique IP addresses. > > > wwwpostgoodreviews.com > -- steve pirk refiamerica.org "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune kexp.org member august '09
