On Friday we published a pretty important post on Google’s latest system update to the reviews on Google Places.

It seems that due to potential legal disputes that could arise from misleading, inaccurate or spammy reviews left of these third-party networks.

Where have my reviews gone?

If like one of thousands of businesses out there your listing has taken a big hit from reviews been deleted then you’re in good company.

It would appear that these will no longer feature on your Google local places listing again.

You would expect Google to have thought of a potential work around for the future such as partnering up with these third-party review sites however thinking about that in more detail it would seem less likely to happen at this stage.

1.) Google already bought out yelp so they already control this review portal but have removed the reviews.

How will reviews return on Google Places

I personally think they will return but feature differently so the standard review insertion.

The most obvious place for third-party reviews to feature would be in the citations section on Google Places listings.

It could be that a mix of citations/references and reviews from third-party sites will feature here.