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Miriam, the electric wheelbarrow site and the sump pump site are not local businesses, but the trophy shop is.  That being said, the goal for all 3 are the same.... which is getting more national online sales.  Why?  Because all 3 are based out of the "cornfields" of a very rural area.  All three sites dominate our local region, but that really doesn't do much for those sites simply because there aren't that many people in our area.  All 3 sites also have a decent national presence on Google & other search engines, but I'm just looking for ways to improve.

Real customer reviews are one way that I'm looking improve our overall rankings and I just wasn't sure where to encourage customers to leave those reviews.... but after thought & discussion on this board, I think I'm going to just try to get them to leave those reviews on these places in this order:  1. Main Site  2. Google Local  3. Google+

Video descriptions of our items is another major way that I'm looking to help improve our websites and our overall rankings.... along with all of the other SEO items that Miriam listed above.

Thanks so much for the replies.  Please keep them coming if anyone else has any other thoughts!

I do work for a couple websites, they're all niche categories:  1. Trophies & Awards  2. Sump Pumps  3. Electric Wheelbarrows (Very Niche!)

I think for the most part I'm going to focus with onsite reviews, Google Local & Google+ Reviews.  It's my personal belief that those items will do the most for me moving up in the SE rankings, which is where most of my sales come from on those websites.  If anyone has info that says otherwise I'd love to hear it.

Also, if anyone happens to have any specific ideas for moving up in the rankings for those categories that I listed above, then I'd also love to hear that as well.

Honest, genuine & unedited customer reviews are something that I'm going to focus on for multiple companies that I work for in 2014.  My question is where is the best place to push my customers to leave reviews for the company?  On the company's website?  Google+?  Google Local?  Bing?  Yahoo?  Yelp?  Facebook?

Obviously the answer is all of the above, but if you had to rank the top 3 places to get reviews that would help the company's SEO rankings & online visibility, what would your top 3 be?