{"id":20253,"date":"2017-02-03T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=20253"},"modified":"2017-02-03T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T19:18:07","slug":"google-lowers-local-pack-review-star-threshold-to-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/03\/google-lowers-local-pack-review-star-threshold-to-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Lowers Local Pack Review Star Threshold to 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At GetFiveStars blog I just published\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfivestars.com\/blog\/google-lowers-local-pack-review-star-threshold-3\/\" title=\"Permalink to Google Lowers Local Pack Review Star Threshold to 3\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Lowers Local Pack Review Star Threshold to 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the first change since the summer of 2013 when Google stopped using the Zagat review system, Google is now showing review stars on businesses with as few as three reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Great if those three are good but even one bad one can look very bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At GetFiveStars blog I just published\u00a0Google Lowers Local Pack Review Star Threshold to 3. In the first change since the summer of 2013 when Google stopped using the Zagat review system, Google is now showing review stars on businesses with as few as three reviews. Great if those three are good but even one bad &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20253","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=20253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20266,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20253\/revisions\/20266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}