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Most of the factors in ranking a page are no surprise. But i was surprised that having Product reviews on your site is apparently a demotion? Surely, many peopl

Most of the factors in ranking a page are no surprise. But i was surprised that having Product reviews on your site is apparently a demotion? Surely, many people are searching to find just that?

yieldcrv 2y ago
I don’t trust conflicts of interest, if that’s about a site selling it’s own product and having reviews, I’m glad to find that results in a demotion While bigger marketplaces have other ways of driving ranking
b112 2y ago
This is likely more about reviews with affiliate links. 99.99% of those are people reviewing absolutely nothing, just copying reviews and putting their own affiliate link.
cqqxo4zV46cp 2y ago
“xx,xxx five star reviews” I’ve found is a modern day over-marketed product trope. It feels well within the realm of reasons that this ends up serving as a useful heuristic.
unnamed76ri 2y ago
Years ago I had a site for deep fryer reviews. The whole thing existed to make money from Amazon’s affiliate program. I hadn’t personally used ANY of the deep fryers. Was just writing reviews based on features and other people’s reviews. In short, I ranked high in Google and added nothing of value to the world with that site. There was a brief period of time where I made decent money with it until Google deranked all the product review websites.
nottorp 2y ago
We are, but I’m not sure there are any real product reviews left on the internet.
- sidewndr46 2y ago
  Other than reviews of Google search itself obviously
  - nottorp 2y ago
    Are there? I can't [1] write an objective review, I can just subjectively say that it's been more and more useless to me in the past ... 7-8 years now? [1] Or maybe can't be bothered because I stopped caring ages ago.
zeroCalories 2y ago
Sites spam low quality product reviews with affiliate links to Amazon. This is done by "reputable" sites as well. I don't blame Google for down ranking this meta.
ren_engineer 2y ago
most of these have been outright publicly denied by Google employees, despite people showing with A/B tests that things like CTR and backlinks impacted rankings

Most of the factors in ranking a page are no surprise. But i was surprised that having Product reviews on your site is apparently a demotion? Surely, many people are searching to find just that?

yieldcrv 2y ago

I don’t trust conflicts of interest, if that’s about a site selling it’s own product and having reviews, I’m glad to find that results in a demotion While bigger marketplaces have other ways of driving ranking

b112 2y ago

This is likely more about reviews with affiliate links. 99.99% of those are people reviewing absolutely nothing, just copying reviews and putting their own affiliate link.

cqqxo4zV46cp 2y ago

“xx,xxx five star reviews” I’ve found is a modern day over-marketed product trope. It feels well within the realm of reasons that this ends up serving as a useful heuristic.

unnamed76ri 2y ago

Years ago I had a site for deep fryer reviews. The whole thing existed to make money from Amazon’s affiliate program. I hadn’t personally used ANY of the deep fryers. Was just writing reviews based on features and other people’s reviews. In short, I ranked high in Google and added nothing of value to the world with that site. There was a brief period of time where I made decent money with it until Google deranked all the product review websites.

nottorp 2y ago

We are, but I’m not sure there are any real product reviews left on the internet.

sidewndr46 2y ago
Other than reviews of Google search itself obviously
- nottorp 2y ago
  Are there? I can't [1] write an objective review, I can just subjectively say that it's been more and more useless to me in the past ... 7-8 years now? [1] Or maybe can't be bothered because I stopped caring ages ago.

zeroCalories 2y ago

Sites spam low quality product reviews with affiliate links to Amazon. This is done by "reputable" sites as well. I don't blame Google for down ranking this meta.

ren_engineer 2y ago

most of these have been outright publicly denied by Google employees, despite people showing with A/B tests that things like CTR and backlinks impacted rankings