Do Google Reviews Help SEO Rankings?
The short answer is absolutely 100% YES!!! Google Reviews do help improve search rankings and overall SEO efforts. There is no stronger way to gain organic search improvement to your website.
While there are a lot of factors involved in search rankings, online customer reviews can be a strong signal to search engines that communicates trustworthiness and authority. In an era in which competition has gotten tougher for small businesses on the web, managing online reviews is a way to differentiate your business and raise your visibility in search results. This puts you on an even playing field with your large competitor down the street with thousands of dollars available for marketing. Positive Google reviews can’t be purchased without the risk of Google pulling the entire business Google page down if caught doing it!
Tenant receives after rental/payment
Automatically send a text message to a customer who just rented a unit or just made a payment. The text is requesting them to give your company a review!
Spider admin view
You will be able to respond to all of your reviews from one centralized location.
- Benefit: Your local competition, the big box down the street, is paying for Google Adwords which is expensive. The good news is that most people look right over those top few results that pop up first because the customer searching, knows that position was paid for.
- Benefit: If a potential customer searches for your location and your business doesn’t come up on the first 2 pages of results, statistics show that the potential tenant will click your link only 7% of the time.
- Reliability: Positive google reviews allows other potential customers to see that your company is reliable and a great place to do business. You will always have those one or two tenants that are never happy but the good news is you can over ride the bad reviews with happy customers doing reviews. Our service makes it easy for your tenant to leave a review
- Managers Customer Service: If your manager knows that every customer they deal with daily will be receiving a text message asking how their service was, your managers will be on their best behavior.
- SEO – Search Engine Optimazation: In today’s world, business owners now understand how important SEO is for your business. Many business pay large fees to their web developer or a separate company to help enhance the SEO for their business! Google Reviews are at the top of the list when it comes to what helps with SEO.
Reasons Showing Importance Of Online Reviews
- Star rating is the number one factor used by consumers to judge a business
- More than 6 in 10 consumers look to Google for reviews
- 92% of consumers now read online reviews vs. 88% in 2014
- Star rating is the number one factor used by consumers to judge a business
- 44% say a review must be written within one month to be relevant. This highlights the importance of recency in reviews!
- 92% of consumers now read online reviews vs. 88% in 2014
- 88% trust reviews as much as personal recommendations, vs. 83% in 2014
Overview
See exactly how it all ties together. There is no better way to help your SEO (Search engine optimization) than by getting google reviews. We can also provide links to yelp, facebook, twitter and more. This also helps to keep you informed of your managers customer service towards new tenants. If the new tenant was unhappy with their service, the tenant will have the opportunity to notify you immediately with their concerns.
Screen shots
It shows the flow of our Google review service. Easily obtain reviews from your tenants. A text message is automatically sent out right after a new rental has occurred. Texts can also be sent out after a payment is made, if you desire.
Steps to connect your google account in with Spiderdoor
Simply click on the video here and it will describe the steps you need to follow in order to connect your reviews, to the SpiderDoor dashboard. Doing this will provide Spiderdoor with the access needed to allow you to respond to all reviews, from one centralized dashboard. You will be providing Spiderdoor with Googles “Manager Access” and you will type in this email address.
How to respond to google reviews inside Spiderdoor dashboard
Not only are google reviews from your customer very important for your SEO but responding is equally important. The Spiderdoor dashboard allows you to easily view and respond to all of your reviews from one central page, without having to login to your google business account to respond. If you have multiple locations with unique google business accounts, the Spiderdoor platform pools them all together for easy access. Keep in mind that only people with the “OWNERS” role inside Spiderdoor , will have access to reviews. People with the MANAGER role will not be able to maintain google reviews.
See Spider admin screenshot
This is a view of what you will be able to see inside the spider admin portal.
