Special Request: Google Reviews
Hi Friends,
These past 2 years as a full-time freelance photographer have been incredibly exciting and rewarding on the one hand, but also very difficult in some ways. One of the things I have struggled with the most is improving my visibility online. I am slowly working on learning about search engine optimization as a way to help me achieve more visibility and therefore help me build my business. To be honest, SEO kind of blows my mind, and it’s certainly not my favorite task. But it is necessary, and so I am forced to confront it!
One of the other ways I can become more visible is to build up my Google Reviews site for my business, and that’s something I wanted to ask for your help with today. If you are a customer of mine, for either a product or a service, I would be grateful if you would consider leaving me a review so that other potential customers can get a sense of my business and the quality of products and services I offer.
Positive reviews can help me in the following ways:
Raise the profile of my business online
Benefit my search engine optimization
Build brand trust
If you’ve worked with me for portraits, architectural photography, mentoring, art prints or other printed products, if you’ve purchased my eBooks, or if you’ve benefitted from my free learning resources on my blog, please consider leaving me a review.
In the spirit of making it as painless as possible, below are the steps you must take to do so:
Write A Google Review From Your Browser
Log into your Google account, and search for the business you want to review.
Find the reviews area (next to the star rating in your search results, or under the establishment’s name in the sidebar in Google search) and click on the blue box or font that says “WRITE A REVIEW.”
Rate the business from 1 to 5 stars (the greater numbers indicate a positive experience), write about your experience, and click “POST” when you’re done.
Write A Review From The Google Maps App
In the Google Maps app on your phone, search for the business that you want to review.
Maps will return a search result with a map that includes a banner at the bottom about the business. Click that banner.
Scroll down in the window that pops up until you get to the reviews section. You will see five stars unpopulated with your profile picture above them. Click on the number of stars you would like to leave for the business and proceed to write about your experience.
Click “POST” to leave the review.
Thanks in advance for helping me build customer trust in my business!
