Do g+ Reviews From New Accounts Count?
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We want to get some more reviews on g+ and we have clients who will to write them. The problem is that almost none of them have g+ accounts. While they are nice enough to create a profile, just to do a review for us, I'm wondering if that will even matter? Does anyone know how google handles reviews from scant profiles?
My fear is that google will treat reviews from scant profiles like spam, even though they won't be. While I don't mind asking our clients to write us g+ reviews, I can't very well ask them to be active on g+ so google thinks they more credible.
Is this fear legitimate? Does anyone know one way or the other?
Thanks,
Ruben
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You're very welcome, Ruben.
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Thanks for the help, Miriam!
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I have not checked out 5stars.com, but I will. We were definitely warned about getting too many reviews at once. We were thinking about limiting the amount of people we ask, so we don't get more than two per week at most. I don't know if that amount would trip any filters, but I guess we'll see.
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Hi Ruben,
Yes, there is a chance that the very fact that a Google account is new may cause reviews stemming from it to be viewed with suspicion by Google and potentially filtered out. Unfortunately, there is no way around this. Does this mean you shouldn't ask non-Google users who are clients of yours to leave a review? No - some of the reviews may make it through the filter, but this should not be your only strategy. It may be that a client who doesn't happen to have a Google profile may be an active user of some other type of review website. Letting clients know you have profiles at websites A, B, C and D where you'd love a review may help them see that they can review you on a website where they are already active.
Alternatively, if you are dealing with clients who just aren't Internet-savvy at all, they can still be great resources for testimonials that can be marked up on your own website with good markup, building a different kind of authority and potentially getting you stars in your Google results.
Have you checked out Get5Stars.com at all? It's a paid service, but it's one that can be a big help in situations like this in which you've got customers at different levels of engagement and want to help them take a positive path towards leaving you feedback - whether in the form of testimonials or reviews.
I also recommend you read:
And, remember, no business should set as its goal getting a ton of Google-based reviews at once. This, in itself, can trip filters. A very modest, slow-paced acquisition is the best way to go about earning Google-based reviews, and building a diverse profile of reviews and testimonials across multiple sites should be the ultimate goal.
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Oh, and I appreciate it very much! I was just curious if you tested it with anything else, is all. But, I will give both a try and let you know how it worked on our end.
I really do appreciate you sharing your results.
- Ruben
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I Wrote about Our Experience.
You can always try different things to test
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Really? That's disheartening. Well, what if they signup with another email provider? Yahoo or MSN? It's really not realistic for us to give out a bunch of domain specific emails, but if it's the only way, we'll have to think of something.
Thanks,
Ruben
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Hi Ruben,
Here is the Trick to Post G+ Reviews
You cannot do reviews with New free Gmail address, If you do ,, Your review will be deleted.
Now here is the Way to do it :
Create a domain based email address like ruben@abc.com , Create proper profile with images and all other info And then Post the review, It will stay there for Long. You can create new ids with different domains and keep doing .This is how We do and its Working.
Thanks
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