Review is not displayed – what to do?

In the Google search results you can leave reviews for different places like restaurants or doctors. Sometimes a custom review doesn’t appear right after you write it or a short time later. What is behind it and can you do something about it?

With the ratings, you can recommend certain places to other users or warn them about bad experiences. Good ratings are very important for the operators, since a few stars could deter customers. Some rules apply to the use of the rating platform.

Google: Review is not showing

If a review doesn’t appear, it’s most likely in violation against the terms of use the Google reviews. There can be different reasons:

• The review text has inconsistencies. The content is about offensive and the choice of words inappropriate.
• It will unauthorized advertising placed in the rating.
• It will forbidden words used.
• There will be names or others confidential information called.
• You can’t as an employee his own company evaluate.
• Get an entry suddenly many new reviewsthe Google algorithm may classify this as unnatural behavior and stop the new reviews.

• The rating is not truthfully.
• The content must be from written by yourself and must not already be in other places in the network. In the case of duplicates, the rating will not be accepted.
• Even if that Review text too long is, it can be rejected.
• Google’s algorithm also becomes skeptical when you write reviews for places you haven’t been according to location history.
• It will too many reviews in a short period of time written. To protect against spam, a technical measure is used here that hides the new ratings to be on the safe side. In such cases, you should not rate so quickly and give yourself a little more time for your contributions.

If a review is rejected, there is about it no email or other notification from Google. So you don’t get the exact reason. Sometimes it just takes a little longer to review a new review. If your information is not displayed immediately after publishing, just wait a bit. If a rating violates guidelines or if the operator has something to complain about, an entry can also be deleted afterwards.

Reviews can also be expensive for Google itself:

Google: Review not visible to others? Here’s how to fix it

If your Google review is not visible to others, change the text a bit and publish your experience report again. Make sure you use clean language. If you have something to complain about about the place, stay fair and factual. Prevent excessive use of exclamation marks, capitalization, and emoticons.

New ratings can be both user and IP based be blocked. If you are using a public WLAN, try entering the experience report from another network.

avoids specific, private information to specify. Does not address any employee by name. If your review includes a photo, check to see if the image might be inappropriate. A detailed overview of the evaluation guidelines you can find it on Google. Check if your review violates any of the above rules and edit it so that your post can be seen by other users.

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