Review gating
Screening customers so only happy ones reach the public form violates Google policy and risks the whole profile. Ask everyone.
Review Management
A steady flow of recent, genuine reviews moves your map-pack position and your conversion rate at the same time. We build the request into your workflow, monitor every platform, and respond to what comes in.

In plain terms
A review profile does two jobs at once: it is a ranking signal for the map pack, and it is the single most-read thing on your listing before someone calls. Recent, specific, well-answered reviews move both — which is why a rating a few tenths higher than the competitor next door is worth real money in a local category.
The work is unglamorous and continuous. Ask every customer, at the moment they are most satisfied, in one tap. Watch every platform daily. Reply to everything — the calm, specific public response to a bad review is often read by more future customers than the review itself. Never gate, never incentivise, never fake it: those get profiles suspended.

One-tap review requests wired into your CRM or field-service software, sent at the moment satisfaction is highest.
Every platform watched daily, with a same-day alert the moment a new review lands.
A calm, specific public reply to every review — the thing future prospects actually read.
Rating trend, review velocity and response time, alongside the map-pack movement that follows.
The engagement
The sequence rarely changes, even though every account does. Fix the foundation, launch what is fast, then compound.
Week 1
Audit the current profile across every platform your buyers use, benchmark against the three competitors in your map pack, and find where the review flow is breaking.
Weeks 2–3
Wire one-tap review requests into your CRM or field-service software, write the messages by customer type, and set the send timing.
Ongoing
Daily monitoring with same-day alerts, a drafted public response to every review within a day, and removal requests filed for anything that breaks platform policy.
Monthly
Report on rating trend, review velocity and response time, alongside the map-pack movement that follows.
Fit
And who it isn’t
We will not write fake reviews, gate negative feedback so only happy customers can post publicly, or pay for a rating. Those tactics violate platform policies and get profiles suspended. If that is the service you are looking for, we are not it.
What goes wrong
The failure modes we see most often when this channel is run without discipline — worth checking your current setup against.
Screening customers so only happy ones reach the public form violates Google policy and risks the whole profile. Ask everyone.
An unanswered one-star, or a defensive reply, is read by every future prospect. A calm, specific response converts better than a flawless rating.
A pile of reviews in one week followed by six months of silence reads as inauthentic and does nothing for ranking. Steady is what compounds.
How we measure it
Booked jobs are the goal. These are the earlier reads that tell us the channel is on track to get there.
The average climbing as recent positive reviews outweigh older ones — the signal the map pack and every prospect both read.
A steady number of new reviews every month rather than occasional bursts, which is what actually moves ranking.
Every review answered within a day. Google weights it, and prospects notice whether you engage.
Movement in the local three-pack for your core services, which review strength directly feeds.
Questions
By building the request into the moment the customer is most satisfied — the end of a job, the follow-up call, the paid invoice — and making it one tap. We set up the automation, write the messages, pick the timing per customer type, and route people to the platform that matters most for your category. No incentives, no gating: just asking every customer, consistently, at the right time.
Monitor every platform daily, alert you the moment one lands, and draft a calm, specific, public response within a day — acknowledging the issue, avoiding defensiveness, and moving the detail offline. We cannot remove a genuine review, but a good response is read by every future prospect and often does more for conversion than the rating itself. Where a review clearly violates platform policy, we prepare and file the removal request.
Google Business Profile first, almost always — it feeds the map pack and it is what most people check. After that it depends on your industry: Healthgrades and Zocdoc for medical, Avvo for legal, industry directories for trades, Facebook for some local services. We audit where your prospects actually look and where your competitors are winning, then concentrate the effort rather than spreading it thin.
If you are doing real volume and the work is good, the average rating starts climbing within a couple of months as recent, positive reviews outweigh older ones. A profile with very few reviews moves faster in either direction. The compounding benefit — better map-pack position, higher click-through, more conversion — builds over quarters, not weeks.
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