Google Local online Review submitted by self?

[clay]

I had to wire out a standing spray to a funeral home in Snyder TX (small farming town), and I went to their Google Local for a phone number (to call to see who was doing the family piece) and I see the below link as their Google Local review page. Am I reading it right, they have reviews reported from their website as a "source"?

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?c...t=0&ved=0CEcQtQU&sa=X&ei=sgHzS8qCBIauNfLb7LEJ

 

[anytimeflowers]

uummmm.....yep, it would appear so. I was very tempted to click the button "no" as to whether or not the review was helpful. Sheesh, I don't know that they just really understand what google reviews are.

 

[Eric S]

I think it because their website is created with a yellowpage templete.

You know those companies that call you up and say they can get you listed on google and yada yada.

Good find though. There has got to be something in the source that tells google to use these reviews.

 

[CHR]

This one looks more like a bug or fluke than manipulation on the part of the mortuary.

 

[theRKF]

This one looks more like a bug or fluke than manipulation on the part of the mortuary.

Agreed - Google is making efforts to locate reviews, even in something like a blog post that isn't a typical rating/review format. Sometimes their software hits a false-positive, or misreads sentiment.

 

[theRKF]

This one looks more like a bug or fluke than manipulation on the part of the mortuary.

Agreed - Google is making efforts to locate reviews, even in something like a blog post that isn't a typical rating/review format. Sometimes their software hits a false-positive, or misreads sentiment.

 

[artistry in bloom]

Well this is interesting and explains something. I have 3 reviews on google maps. I recently noticed I had moved up a notch in google maps and I noticed instead of saying 3 reviews it had 5 reviews. I thought -oh goody somebody else has written a review about me and I clicked on it to see what it said. My regular three reviews were there but the other two were not reviews at all. They were information from my Yelp listing- not reviews- just information.I didn't put them there. I guess google just picked up the information from Yelp.I thought that was weird but since it helps my ranking I'm not complaining.
Dianne