SOP 158: Collect and manage customer reviews for Google Business Profile
Collect and manage customer reviews to boost your Google Business Profile rankings.
Last Updated / Reviewed: 07/28/2024
Execution Time: 15 - 30 Mins
🚀 Goal: Collect customer reviews for your Google Business Profile.
🤞 Ideal Outcome: Generate a review form and send to your customers whenever you've successfully provided a service. Reply to your customers appropriately and delight them.
🤔 Why this is important: Reviews on your Google Business Profile are a big credibility boost to your business and help with your ranking on Google search results.
🧐 Where this is done Google Business Profile.
🗓️ When this is done: Whenever you’ve successfully provided a service.
👨 Who does this: Marketing Manager, marketing consultant, or any person responsible for marketing strategy for your local business.
__⚠️Prerequisites or requirements: __You need to have a Google Business Profile account.
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Generate a review form and send to your customers
01▸ Sign in to your Google Business Profile account.
02▸ Select the appropriate business profile that you would like to ask your customers for reviews.
03▸ Then, click “Ask for reviews”.
04▸ Copy the review link.
05▸ Share the review link with your customers. Here are some suggestions on where you can share your review link:
If you interact directly with the customer, share the link via Whatsapp, Telegram, email, or any messaging platform after you’ve provided a service.
If you run an eCommerce business (or any online business for that matter), set up an automated email after they purchase and share your review link there.
If you have a social media profile for your business (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc), reach out whenever someone tags your product or mentions you and share your review link.
Check customer reviews
To check a customer review, log in to your Google Business Profile dashboard, and click “Reviews”.
You should then see the reviews ordered by the latest date. You can sort this by clicking on the filter icon on your top right.
Delete a customer review
01▸ Sign in to your Google Business Profile account.
02▸ Click “Reviews”.
03▸ Click on the three-dot (kebab) menu and select “Flag as inappropriate”.
Note: Flagging a review as inappropriate doesn’t automatically remove the review. This simply tells Google that this review should be reviewed. If Google determines that the review violates its content policy, only then the review will be removed from your Google Business Profile.