Google April 2023 Reviews Update Focuses Heavily On Experience

Google released the Google April 2023 Reviews Update today, April 12, 2023 at noon EST (9 AM PDT). Reviews Update: Focus on ExperienceGoogle’s brand new Reviews documentation leans heavily into E-E-A-T, what Google calls the Double-E-EA-T content quality paradigm formally introduced by Google in December 2022. Languages Affected by the Product Reviews SystemThe April 2023 Reviews System Update affects the following languages:DutchEnglishFrenchGermanIndonesianItalianPolishPortugueseRussianSpanishVietnameseGoogle’s Product Reviews SystemThe new update raises the bar on product reviews. It may be that low quality reviews may still rank in the absence of higher quality reviews. Read Google’s New Reviews System DocumentationGoogle Search’s reviews system and your websiteFeatured image by Shutterstock/Merkushev Vasiliy