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How to remove fake reviews from search engines
TheGreatOakley
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One of my buddies is facing annoying problem. Before we proceed short story:
Friend receives email from scammers/spammers that promise to give him 5 stars on review websites, which my friend proceeds to ignore and mark as spam.
In couple of weeks he receives sus email from "potential customer" that did re-search "brand reviews" and found the website with super low and bad reviews and that he should do something about it, because it will affect his sales! He proceeds to ignore this one as well.
Now if you search for "brand name + review" the first result is from some scummy website Reviews.io that has absolute fake reviews in different languages that make no sense at all. It looks more like spam than genuine reviews.
There is two scenarios:
- Review scammers are doing this and trying to get attention, so he will buy their service.
- Reviews.io is doing this shit and actually are part of the scammer/spammer who mailed him.
Now what we have tried to do so far is to ask Google to remove such results from search because they make no sense and people who left them did not use his product and second is report the reviews on review.io. Both did not do anything.
Should my friend keep wasting time and trying to get rid off fake reviews on search engines? We both think that all the review websites are bullshit and he does not want to invest time (especially paying to Trustpilot and other garbage platforms to invite users to leave a review). Fucking Review Mafia.
Good products rarely get many positive reviews, because if everything is working = you happy = you don't give a fuck and won't waste your time leaving 5 stars. Most of the time people leave reviews if something is broken.
All tips and tricks are welcome.
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I agree with this. Not a single review site is legit and not ALL who post reviews are legit. Most of the time competitors post 1 star review or bad reviews. I've closed down my trustpilot review page for this as people were posting purposefully bad reviews and they were not even my customers. I think those review companies should only allow verified/invite-only reviews. But then again some brands can pay for such positive reviews (as charityhost here did). So in short lets keep aside those review sites... trustpilot, reviews.io, and even google-reviews are mostly paid, fake, and not to be trusted.
This is the way
Fake reviews are part of free speech.
It isn’t illegal to write fake reviews.
Search Engines operate based on PageRank algorithm, in which webpages with more reverse links are ranked higher.
They do not differentiate whether the reviews are fake.
Thus, give up already and don’t try to take down fake reviews.
They actually do. This website will get penalized by search engines if this is their business model.
It is not even fake, straight up spam that is not being moderated by a review platform.
That is a tough situation. The only thing I’ve seen from others facing the same thing is they just double down and try to get more good reviews.
Incorrect, false statements are not protected by the right to free speech, that's slander.
Sue the review websites
As simple as that.