Is this spam? ;-] I have been doing a lot of playing with Google Places and the new HotPot user ranking/review product, and for once, you get an honest list of reviews by local people. Only Google account holders can post reviews in the "by Google users" section. I believe they also have to have a public profile. So, trashing is possible, but you have to be able to back it up or you might find the local community shouting you down ;-] I really is a fairly neat twist on building a new kind of Yellow Pages... --steve On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:40, Eugene Zola <angelarifb@gmail.com> wrote:

Google’s Huge Change and How it affects you.

• Anyone can now post bad reviews and kill your rank. • We post good reviews and improve your rank. • We post good reviews to keep others from killing your rank.

Google: Judge, Jury and Online Shopping Executioner

Google rank is based on reviews of your business?

Google Statement: "...in the last few days we developed an algorithmic solution which detects the merchant from the Times article along with hundreds of other merchants that, in our opinion, provide an extremely poor user experience. The algorithm we incorporated into our search rankings represents an initial solution to this issue, and Google users are now getting a better experience as a result."

This means that anyone can write bad reviews about your business and lower your ranking. We knew that getting good reviews and not getting bad reviews was always important. Now it is a must to have good reviews for your business to keep the rank safe or to improve rank with Google.

We post positive reviews for your company.

We have the experience and ability to post hundreds of positive reviews that are all unique content and posted on unique IP addresses.

wwwpostgoodreviews.com

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