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Guides on getting, answering and ranking with reviews
No theory and no filler. These are the playbooks we use with local and multi-location businesses to collect more reviews, handle the difficult ones well, and turn both into local search visibility.
Most businesses do not have a review problem, they have an asking problem. Happy customers rarely think to leave a review on their own, and the people who do post unprompted are usually the ones who had a bad day. Here is how to fix the asking, ethically and consistently.
Read the guide Replies and reputationHow to respond to negative reviews (with templates that do not sound corporate)A negative review is not the damage. The damage is the reply underneath it, or the silence where a reply should be. Prospective customers read the response far more carefully than the complaint, because it tells them what happens if something goes wrong for them.
Read the guide Local searchLocal SEO and reviews: how ratings move you up the map packReviews are not a vanity metric for local businesses, they are a ranking input and a click-through multiplier at the same time. This is what Google actually says about local ranking, what the review signals do, and how to work on them without wasting a month on things that do not move.
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