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I reached out to three forms of Google support: phone, chat, argentina number data Twitter. If you're curious why SEOs might disagree about whether paying for review likes is spam, I'm sorry to report that even Google's own staff doesn't completely agree on this. In three parts:

1. The Google Phone representative was initially unclear about what a Like button was. I explained it to him. First, I asked if it was okay for a business owner to press the Like button on brand reviews, and he confirmed that it was. This didn’t surprise me. However, when I asked about paying people to take such actions, he responded (I paraphrase):

"If a review is being liked by people other than the owner, it will not be considered spam."
“What if the business owner is paying people, like staff or marketers, to like their reviews,” I asked.
"No, it is not considered spam."