{"id":402,"date":"2022-04-11T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenfintech.com\/blog\/?p=402"},"modified":"2023-05-31T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T09:47:08","slug":"google-march-2022-product-reviews-update-is-finished-rolling-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenfintech.com\/blog\/google-march-2022-product-reviews-update-is-finished-rolling-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Google March 2022 product reviews update is finished rolling out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Almost three weeks after Google launched the 3rd version of the product reviews update, it is now done rolling out.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google has confirmed that the March 2022 product reviews update is now finished rolling out. This update, announced on March 23, has officially completed rolling out over a 19 day period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 2022 product reviews update.<\/strong> As a reminder, the March 2022 product reviews update started to roll out at about 12 p.m. ET on March 23. This update took 19 days to roll out after it was announced. So this update started on March 23 and lasted through April 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Big update.<\/strong> This update was not as big as the December 2021 update, based on data from the data providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why we care. <\/strong>If your website offers product review content, you will want to check your rankings to see if you were impacted. Did your Google organic traffic improve, decline or stay the same?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long term, you are going to want to ensure that you put a lot more detail and effort into your product review content. Make it unique so it stands out from the competition on the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More on the March 2022 products reviews update<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The SEO community.<\/strong> The March 2022 product reviews update seemed to have a slow start, with some volatility as early as March 23 but then most of the volatility showed up on March 31. I was able to cover the community reaction in one blog post on the Search Engine Roundtable. It includes some of the early chatter, ranking charts and social shares from some SEOs. In short, if your site was hit by this update, you probably felt it in a very big way but this was not as widespread as the December update in terms of the chatter within the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What to do if you are hit.<\/strong> Google has given advice on what to consider if you are negatively impacted by this product reviews update. We posted that advice in our original story over here. In addition, Google provided two new best practices around this update, one saying to provide more multimedia around your product reviews and the second is to provide links to multiple sellers, not just one. Google posted these two items:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Provide evidence such as visuals, audio, or other links of your own experience with the product, to support your expertise and reinforce the authenticity of your review.<\/li><li>Include links to multiple sellers to give the reader the option to purchase from their merchant of choice.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Google added the following criteria for what matters with the March 2022 product reviews update:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Include helpful in-depth details, like the benefits or drawbacks of a certain item, specifics on how a product performs or how the product differs from previous versions<\/li><li>Come from people who have actually used the products, and show what the product is physically like or how it\u2019s used<\/li><li>Include unique information beyond what the manufacturer provides \u2014 like visuals, audio or links to other content detailing the reviewer\u2019s experience<\/li><li>Cover comparable products, or explain what sets a product apart from its competitors<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Google added three new points of new advice for this third release of the products reviews update:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Are product review updates relevant to ranked lists and comparison reviews? Yes. Product review updates apply to all forms of review content. The best practices we\u2019ve shared also apply. However, due to the shorter nature of ranked lists, you may want to demonstrate expertise and reinforce authenticity in a more concise way. Citing pertinent results and including original images from tests you performed with the product can be good ways to do this.<\/li><li>Are there any recommendations for reviews recommending \u201cbest\u201d products? If you recommend a product as the best overall or the best for a certain purpose, be sure to share with the reader why you consider that product the best. What sets the product apart from others in the market? Why is the product particularly suited for its recommended purpose? Be sure to include supporting first-hand evidence.<\/li><li>If I create a review that covers multiple products, should I still create reviews for the products individually? It can be effective to write a high quality ranked list of related products in combination with in-depth single-product reviews for each recommended product. If you write both, make sure there is enough useful content in the ranked list for it to stand on its own.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Google product reviews update.<\/strong> The Google product reviews update aims to promote review content that is above and beyond much of the templated information you see on the web. Google said it will promote these types of product reviews in its search results rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google is not directly punishing lower quality product reviews that have \u201cthin content that simply summarizes a bunch of products.\u201d However, if you provide such content and find your rankings demoted because other content is promoted above yours, it will definitely feel like a penalty. Technically, according to Google, this is not a penalty against your content, Google is just rewarding sites with more insightful review content with rankings above yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Technically, this update should only impact product review content and not other types of content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost three weeks after Google launched the 3rd version of the product reviews update, it is now done rolling out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web-marketing","tag-seo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google March 2022 product reviews update is finished rolling out - 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