Google Testing Local Pack Ads Without Review Stars – Search Engine Roundtable

Google is testing showing local ads in the local pack without review stars. Normally you’d see review stars for the sponsored results in the local pack, but in some cases, Google is testing removing the reviews from the sponsored results in the local pack.

Anthony Higman spotted this and posted about it on X – I cannot replicate this but he has a couple of screenshots of this.

Here are those screenshots:

Forum discussion at X.

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