Comment · Wed, February 26, 2020
ND edits reviews and doesn't tell you before or after you post it?
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bulldog521521 · 13 points
I submitted a review for the KSM-66 capsules yesterday, and I went back to read it after it officially posted to make sure I didn't make any major typos or anything, and I noticed that a couple things were definitely changed from how I originally wrote it. Nothing big, but they changed any time I wrote the word anxiety and replaced it with anxiousness or anxious feelings about...
I'm a little concerned by this. While they didn't change anything about the overall message of my review, they did change some words and that bothers me. If they're willing to do that without disclosure, what else could they be changing on other reviews? What if they're changing certain words on negative reviews to make them less harsh? Idk. It's just sketchy.
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baronjpetor · 21 points
I'm ND's distributor in Mexico so I'm not officially part of the team, but close enough to have an idea of why they would do this, as we had the same kind of issues in Mexico.
If you associate a supplement to a medical property (in this case for example "KSM-66 helps my anxiety"), the google algorithm will demolish the website SEO-wise (which means that the page will lose its pagerank), even if the comment was made by a customer (which is pretty dumb, but it is what it is...).
This is why ND's team would have to slightly edit some keywords that correspond to a medical condition (in this case "anxiety" is turned into "anxiousness" which isn't considered as a medical condition by the google algorithm and won't have an impact on SEO). It doesn't affect the core message of the reviews but it 's a necessity to do so if you don't want to see your website disappear from the 1st page of google's results.
I may be wrong but I think this would be the reason of the edits you saw. I'm sure MYASD will do a better job at explaining it than myself though.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
You were close, it was due to the disease. However, it was not due to SEO. It's entirely a legal issue.