{"id":21387,"date":"2018-02-28T11:54:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=21387"},"modified":"2018-02-28T17:19:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T21:19:29","slug":"whos-really-behind-fake-online-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/28\/whos-really-behind-fake-online-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Really Behind Fake Online Reviews?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviews, reviews and more reviews.<\/p>\n

Jason Brown of ReviewFraud participated in an interesting investigative news report on fake reviews. He wrote about it on his blog:\u00a0Bulletproof Digital busted selling Fake reviews to NBCLA<\/a>. \u00a0Here is NBC Southern California report:<\/p>\n

Who’s Really Behind Fake Online Reviews?<\/a><\/p>\n

Jason also covered an interesting story in the review space that doesn’t seem to die,\u00a0Review solicitation and blackmail<\/a>\u00a0 about a small SEO firm in Colorado<\/a> that was threatened for blogging<\/a> about a review company in the space.<\/p>\n

Last week though was a busy one on the review front for me and around the web as well. I participated in several webinars and there were some other interesting articles.<\/p>\n

Video Webinar : The Ins and Out of Reviews and Reputation in 2018 – Local University\u00a0<\/a>Join David Mihm, Aaron Weiche, Joy Hawkins & me as we look at the changing roll of reviews. (video + transcript)<\/p>\n

Video Deep Dive: A Look at Review Spam with Jason Brown & Joy “The Hawk” Hawkins – Local University –\u00a0<\/a>Spam? What spam? Google has yet to get their spam act together against networks buying reviews. We look at the implications.\u00a0(video + transcript)<\/p>\n

How to Deal with Fake Negative Reviews on Google –\u00a0<\/a>Joy Hawkins explains what to do when your business is attacked.<\/p>\n

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Reviews, reviews and more reviews. Jason Brown of ReviewFraud participated in an interesting investigative news report on fake reviews. He wrote about it on his blog:\u00a0Bulletproof Digital busted selling Fake reviews to NBCLA. \u00a0Here is NBC Southern California report: Who’s Really Behind Fake Online Reviews? Jason also covered an interesting story in the review space …<\/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-21387","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\/21387","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=21387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21391,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21387\/revisions\/21391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}