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Offering incentive in-kind for reviews
I thought this was clearly disallowed - to pay people to post a review, let alone pay to post a 5 star review. Be it in cash or product or service.
I reported this and another instance - but the response from Google was: “We've reviewed the reported business. We determined that the business didn't violate our fake engagement policy. As a result, we haven’t taken any action at this time.”
What am I missing here? As expected, I have no way of telling Google their AI sorting got it wrong or get clarification from them.
u/KevenM — 3 days ago