{"id":13997,"date":"2012-12-12T17:40:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T21:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=13997"},"modified":"2012-12-12T17:50:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T21:50:52","slug":"google-updates-review-content-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/12\/google-updates-review-content-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Updates Review Content Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has just updated the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/plus\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&#038;answer=2622994&#038;topic=2624941&#038;ctx=topic\">review content guidelines<\/a> to explicitly prohibit review stations AND employee reviews. <\/p>\n<p>The changes to the policy are noted in italics:<\/p>\n<p><em>For instance, as a business owner or employee you should not review your own business or current place of work.<\/em> Don\u2019t offer money or product to others to write reviews for your business or write negative reviews about a competitor. <em>We also discourage specialized review stations or kiosks set up at your place of business for the sole purpose of soliciting reviews. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has just updated the review content guidelines to explicitly prohibit review stations AND employee reviews. The changes to the policy are noted in italics: For instance, as a business owner or employee you should not review your own business or current place of work. Don\u2019t offer money or product to others to write reviews &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13998,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13997\/revisions\/13998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}