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User Question: Are Google Places listings changing?
Is something happening with Google Places whereby the reviews are now listed differently. Once I had 9 reviews showing, now I only have 5. However the other four which were from True Local are there, but not listed togther as they once were.
With google places there have been a few changes lately, third party reviews that are not left using a google account are slowly being surpressed due to some anti-trust issues that Google are facing at the moment.
What you will see when you go to your places page is that any Google user reviews you have are now visible on the main page (they will show up to 5 of them with others paged out) and any reviews from around the web are listed below in a “Reviews from around the web:……” link. Things may change again soon but for the time being this is Google’s new layout. You won’t be negatively impacted and they aren’t totally gone, just summarised.
You can read some more information about the changes in this blog post from Search Engine Land