Anonymous Google Reviews Are Officially Over
As first reported by Mike Blumenthal last Thursday, Google have confirmed that anonymous Google reviews have been removed from public view, stating: “We do not allow anonymous reviews today and we’ve removed legacy anonymous reviews.” Mike had already done the sterling work of reporting on their disappearance from review counts at the end of May. Then, a couple of days after reviews from ‘A Google User’ (i.e. anonymous) were removed from review counts, the reviews themselves were expunged completely. However, it has taken until now for Google to confirm the change, which has obviously had a significant impact on local business owners and reputation managers. Over the course of a weekend, many saw their average star rating change and total number of reviews drop. How many Google Reviews are anonymous? We have been monitoring the reviews of our reputation management customers and others, so we decided to query our database to learn what proportion of posted reviews were from ‘A Goo...