Tips for getting google or yahoo reviews?

[Mushin]

I have really been attacking the social media marketing of my business and getting great results from Facebook but one area that is incomplete is our reviews on our place pages for places like yahoo and google.

Does anyone have any tips for getting people to place a review or comment on these types of sites?

I would like to use Facebook to drive people to Google and yahoo to enter a review or I would love find a site that allows people to enter a review and it agregates it to Yahoo, Google and other places.

Thanks
Phil

 

[nesrinamb]

Just ask them right after you perform the service. Or send them a thank you card for them doing business with you and state on it that you would appreciate a review of Google.

 

[Mushin]

That is a given and I have already started sending out request. The one problem that I am seeing is that people may not have a google account so they can't create a review without registering and thus the process of creating a review becomes more difficult.

Does anyone know of a way to aggregate reviews to multiple outlets?

 

[TopLevelComp]

Offer a discount for doing a review, offer an incentive.

 

[16k_zx81]

In regard to what TopLevel said above - I have to agree - I still elicit manual (direct) reviews, and I got a very low response rate until I sweetened the request with an incentive.

The way Im doing that these days is to ask them to fill out a quick survey on Surveymonkey with the option of leaving a testimonial.

I then outsource someone to do the google legwork when I have a body of testimonials to add.

Two advantages:

1. I get a wider range of indicators that would be the case with a sentence or two review

2. I get a better response rate because they dont need a google account to fill in the information

 

[allanc]

In regard to what TopLevel said above - I have to agree - I still elicit manual (direct) reviews, and I got a very low response rate until I sweetened the request with an incentive.

The way Im doing that these days is to ask them to fill out a quick survey on Surveymonkey with the option of leaving a testimonial.

I then outsource someone to do the google legwork when I have a body of testimonials to add.

Two advantages:

1. I get a wider range of indicators that would be the case with a sentence or two review

2. I get a better response rate because they dont need a google account to fill in the information

Isn't a Google account necessary to input the reviews there?

 

[16k_zx81]

Isn't a Google account necessary to input the reviews there?

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CNZTK2Z

 

[allanc]

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CNZTK2Z

Sorry, I did not mean the completing of the surveys.
I was referring to this part of the post:

'I then outsource someone to do the google legwork when I have a body of testimonials to add.'

 

[Mushin]

Yes please.. if you don't mind... explain the outsource part.

I think what you are saying is that you take the legitimate reviews that you have collected through your survey and have a 3rd party post them to Google, Yahoo and other places.

I know some people may have an issue with this but I see no problem at all since these are not made up comments just comments collcted elsewhere.

Am I correct.

 

[allanc]

Yes please.. if you don't mind... explain the outsource part.

I think what you are saying is that you take the legitimate reviews that you have collected through your survey and have a 3rd party post them to Google, Yahoo and other places.

I know some people may have an issue with this but I see no problem at all since these are not made up comments just comments collcted elsewhere.

Am I correct.

I also meant:
Assuming the clients' Emails are john.doe@gmail.com and jane.doe@gmail.com are the reviews on Google/Yahoo signed as such?

Edit: I am not stating what I think is right or wrong ... just asking so that I can really understand the post by 16k_zx81

 

[16k_zx81]

Sorry for the confusion.

Yes I pay someone to enter the reviews on Google Places.

 

[thecomputerguy]

Sorry for the confusion.

Yes I pay someone to enter the reviews on Google Places.

How do you pay someone to put reviews in for other people? I mean wouldn't he have to login to that person's email account to enter in a review?

Or do you just pay someone to make new gmail accounts over and over until all of your reviews are posted?

Doesn't it look fishy when you suddenly get 15+ reviews all in one day?

 

[16k_zx81]

... wouldn't he have to login to that person's email account to enter in a review?

Or do you just pay someone to make new gmail accounts over and over until all of your reviews are posted?

Doesn't it look fishy when you suddenly get 15+ reviews all in one day?

No.

Yes.

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[xboxhaxorz]

Hey,

This is your receipt. If you dont mind leaving a review that would be
much appreciated.

http://

Thanks for your business,
***

Simply send this email out to all customers with their pdf receipt, you can link it to your google places