Fake Google review guides.

Fake Google Review Checker, Free for Your Listing

Paste your Google Maps link above. The check reads each low review on your listing and tells you which Google policy it breaks, or that it breaks none.

Google Review Bombing: What Google Removes

A review bomb is a flood of low ratings from people who never visited, set off by a post, a news story or a grudge. Google's policies cover it, and the reports go in one review at a time.

Google Review Extortion: How to Report It

A run of 1-star reviews, then a message offering to make them go away for money. Google has a separate form for this, and the reviews themselves can be reported too.

How to Remove Fake 1 Star Google Reviews

Owners report reviews to Google, and Google decides. Here is how to tell which fake 1-star reviews break a rule in their own words, and how to file them.

How to Remove Spam Reviews on Google Maps

Spam reviews repeat the same words, push another business or come from accounts that post the same line everywhere. They break Google's rules in plain text, which makes them the clearest kind to report.

How to Report a Fake Google Review Account

A fake account can be reported as a profile, and each review it left on your listing can be reported on its own. Do both.

Fake Google Reviews on Multiple Locations

When the same attack hits several of your listings, each location is its own Business Profile, and each review is reported where it was posted.

What to do when lots of fake reviews hit at once

The first day decides how clean your reports are. Here is the order to work in, hour by hour, so nothing gets lost and nothing makes it worse.

The Google review WhatsApp scam, and what to do

A stranger on WhatsApp says they control the bad reviews on your listing, or can make them go away for a fee. Here is how the scam runs and what to do with the message.

The fake 5 star review offer scam, explained

Right after a run of bad reviews, someone offers to replace them with five star ones for a fee. The offer hurts your listing more than the reviews do.

How to tell if your business is under review attack

A bad week and an attack look alike from the star count. They look nothing alike once you read the reviews and the accounts behind them.

How to respond to fake reviews during an attack

Your replies are written for the next customer, not for the attacker. Keep them short, the same every time, and free of anything that can be turned against you.

How to document fake Google reviews for a report

Good evidence is boring: every review captured the same way, every date visible, everything in one folder. Here is how to build it once.

The Google review extortion form, step by step

Google has a separate form for owners who are asked for money to stop or remove bad reviews. Here is what it asks and how to answer it.

Fake Google reviews after going viral: what to do

A post about your business spreads, and within hours your Google rating starts to fall from people who have never been through the door.

Fake reviews on a new Google Business Profile

A new listing with a handful of reviews can be pulled down by two or three bad ones. Here is why it happens early and how to handle it from day one.

Are fake reviews illegal? The FTC rule explained

In the United States, the FTC has a rule on fake reviews. It reaches businesses and people who sell reviews. Removal from Google runs on Google's own policies.

Why didn't Google remove fake reviews automatically?

Google screens reviews with automated systems, and plenty still get through. Here is what the filter sees, what it misses, and what you can do about the ones on your listing.