saw some crazy numbers on this swiss shop today. it's only been around for eight months but already has 116 reviews. compared to everyone else in the area, the median is like 25, so they're way ahead of where they should be. >114 are five-star and the remaining two are one-star
it's so obvious. the comments are just straight up stuffing keywords like
dépannage informatique Genève into the text to game the search results. even found a reviewer with the same last name as the owner. it's such a
bad look for anyone actually trying to run an honest shop. i don't know how they think they can get away with this without getting flagged eventually. looks like a total bot farm or just friends and family spamming. does anyone else see these kinds of patterns popping up in local search results lately?
more here:
https://localsearchforum.com/threads/suspicious-review-pattern-on-a-swiss-business.63369/