Regulated, dangerous, & illegal subjects: Not only can you not include links to any site that offers guns, fireworks, alcohol, controlled medicines, gambling, or adult or financial services, you cannot even advocate for their use in a general way.Obscenity, violent imagery, and pretty much anything to do with sex will put your review in Google’s crosshairs. Mature content: You have to keep it clean in Google reviews.Deceptive content: This wide-ranging category includes paid reviews, blatantly false statements (such as that the business has closed down), reviews from people who have never used the business, impersonating someone else, or using the review forum as a place to lure in unwary users to a phishing or other baiting scam.Doxxing also falls under this prohibition. Civil discourse (or lack thereof): This category covers everything from language that is “clearly and deliberately provocative,” to unsubstantiated accusations of criminal acts, to outright calls for violence.Here are the types of content Google will not allow in a review: Negative reviews are best handled by responding to the reviewer (see below). What you will not be successful at is reporting a review simply because it is negative, even scathingly so.

And if your report is based on a violation of Google’s rules for posting reviews, you have a good chance of having the offending review taken down.

Removing a bad review from google