Aug 11
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Obtaining Google Reviews – Marketing Minute #16
Welcome to another Money Making Marketing Minute, I’m your host, Brodie Tyler! Today’s topic is on Google Reviews.
Now let me show you what I mean. Let’s type in “mesa, az med spa”. I’ve been doing some work for this company, Vitality Med Spa, and you’ll notice over here they rank #1 and they have 14 reviews. If you click on this Place Page it will take you to this little web page that Google has for this company. It has their contact information up here. You can click here to write a review, their hours of operation, they have 14 reviews, a little description, some images, and down here are their reviews.
You’ll notice that if I go back a page they have 14 reviews. The next listing has 1, the next one has 6, the next one has 6… The more reviews you have on Google, the better you’re going to rank. It’s that simple. And I’m not talking about reviews on other websites like Yelp, or Local, or CitySearch, or InsiderPages. Those don’t count as much anymore on Google. They just made this change a couple of weeks ago where they’re putting more emphasis on their own reviews that they get on their own system.
The idea is to try and get as many reviews from your clients and customers and have them post it under their Google account and post it on your Google Place Page. I’ll give you a couple of other examples.
Let’s try “miami dentist”. Okay, so here you have a couple of paid listings up top and then listing A has 13 reviews. B only has 2 reviews, and everybody else doesn’t have any. So here’s a good example… the more reviews you have the more likely you’re going to rank in the #1 spot on the local results. And you’re going to get a lot more traffic this way.
Let’s try one last example. Here’s a keyword that I’ve been targeting for a client of mine. “Boise orthodontist” is the keyword. He ranks number 1. Notice how he has 2 reviews but nobody else has any. So he’s ranking #1 even with only 2 reviews. All other things being equal, the more reviews you have, the better you’re going to rank. I hope you found this information useful. Thanks for watching and I’ll see you on the next video!