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Dates & Scores No Longer Showing on Google Reviews<\/strong>. Chris Campbell<\/a> on Twitter<\/a> and Jack Thornburg <\/a>on\u00a0G+<\/a> pinged me that date and scores on individual reviews on the business G+ Page had stopped showing. It had been reported<\/a> on April 4th in the forums. Google has said that they are looking at this. It could be a bug or it could be a new feature. Always hard to tell with Google. Update<\/strong>: These seem to have returned. Here is a screenshot<\/a> of what they looked like over the weekend.<\/p>\nGoogle Review Filter Turns the Screws Once Again<\/strong>. A bug or an update, again it is not clear. But there have<\/a> been<\/a> numerous<\/a> reports<\/a> of reviews<\/a> having<\/a> gone<\/a> missing<\/a>\u00a0since April 5th. We have not seen this many complaints in the forums since the filter was relaxed<\/a> in late January.<\/p>\n Canadian Businesses May Show Up in the New Dashboard<\/strong>. Last week Google noted<\/a> that the new Places for Business Dashboard was US only. There were however several reports from Kerry Fager<\/a> of them showing up for Canadian businesses. Google’s Joel Headley made<\/a> this comment at Linda Buquet’s forum:<\/p>\n New users — with US-based IPs — may be granted access to the new interface as it rolls out more broadly. If these users happen to have a non-US business already created in Google+, it may appear in their dashboard; however, new listing creation is limited to US-based addresses.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Also, Offers and AdWords Express may not be ready for prime time for non-US listings. If you’re seeing issues, feel free to send us feedback by clicking the\u00a0Send Feedback<\/b>\u00a0link at the bottom of the page. We’ll review all these reports for any potential bugs.<\/em><\/p>\n Better Business Bureau Sucks – So What Else is New<\/strong>. This came<\/a> to me via David Mihm:\u00a0Why the Better Business Bureau Should Give Itself a Bad Grade<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Apparently Time Magazine has figured out that besides outright corruption that there is an intrinsic conflict of interest involved in the way that the BBB is paid for by businesses but theoretically handles complaints as an independent agency from consumers. Review sites can not put these guys out of our misery soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Several items of interest. Dates & Scores No Longer Showing on Google Reviews. Chris Campbell on Twitter and Jack Thornburg on\u00a0G+ pinged me that date and scores on individual reviews on the business G+ Page had stopped showing. It had been reported on April 4th in the forums. Google has said that they are looking …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649","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=14649"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14651,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions\/14651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}