"Google continues having technical issues with losing reviews... Here is what do when I have a client that has lost reviews…
Reviews are hard to come by and painful to lose but just because Google doesn’t have their act together doesn’t mean that your client shouldn’t either. The value of reviews in terms of increased credibility & conversions is too high for the SMB to just give up on the process when confronted with adversity."
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