[title size=”2″]Why Is Google Ads Saying “Review Source Is Ineligible”?[/title]

You are trying to add a review source to the review extension in adwords so that your review shows up on your PPC ad, and it is giving you the error message: Review source is ineligible.

The message looks like this:

[title size=”2″]Why The Google Review Extension Is Saying That[/title]

The review cannot be from a person or individual.

Long story short, it has to be a review from a third party site like the New York Times or any site that PR News Wire submits a press release to.

Reviews from review websites like Trust Pilot or Yelp or Angies List will not work here.

Google looks for a legitimate sort of “Press Release” news site so that it can validate the credibility of your claim. This helps limit the chances that you had a friend write a review on Yelp or Google Plus/Business page in order to get the review in your ad.