Keep in mind, this isn't just for paid. When we were at SXSW last March, Google said they would be removing paid AND organic listings for those who they deemed as doing bad business for their customers. It's their site, their rules. I'm not defending it. I'm just saying that in their quest to make their search results, paid and organic, better for their customers (the searchers), they will be pushing in this direction.
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Google Account Suspended for Bad Reviews???
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JD is right. Google is going to be doing this on organic as well. This is only the beginning.
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A dealer's Google Ads account was suspended due to poor ratings on third-party sites (BBB and RipoffReport) despite stellar reviews on Google's own platform, raising concerns about Google's subjective enforcement of policies based on external review sites. The thread debates whether this represents a legitimate crackdown on bad business practices or an overreach by Google into territories outside its own network, with participants unable to find other documented cases of this happening. The consensus suggests this could signal a troubling new trend where Google evaluates advertiser quality based on reputation across uncontrolled third-party platforms rather than its own metrics alone.
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