• Scroll down towards the bottom of your profile and you’ll see a section on Reviews

• Click on the top right tab “Get more reviews” and you’ll instantly generate a review link, which you can copy paste onto your emails, WhatsApp, text, Facebook messenger or other socials which allow you to insert clickable links.

Generating a link for Google reviews on your phone

If you’re with your customers, suppliers, or event attendees at an in-person meeting or an event. You may want to grab that opportunity and ask them to leave you a review whilst you can.

In which case your smartphone comes in handy. It’s easier if you have your Google Maps app at hand and your listing is already verified by Google.

Firstly, you’ll need to key in your business name on the search bar.

Your profile page then pops up underneath a map of your business location. Scroll a little further down till you see “Get more reviews” and underneath it, “Share profile”.

You may need to swipe left to see it.

Tap on “Share profile” and you’ll be able to automatically generate a message with your review link and share it with your contacts via email, text, WhatsApp, socials and other apps.

It’s a really cool, handy tool to have.

How Google Reviews will help your Business

It’s simple – the more good reviews you get from trusted review sites, the more traffic you’ll get to your business page, which in turn gets you more enquiries from local people who are ready to buy.

We’ve seen a substantial difference in enquiries received by businesses with more than 40 good reviews on their Google Business Profile page, compared with businesses with just a few reviews.

And don’t forget, this is all free advertising for you, courtesy of Google.

If you haven’t already, why not start collecting reviews from now on so you’ll be able to reap the benefits of free advertising six months from now?

Is that the only way to attract local enquiries to my website?

No, there’s more to local search engine optimisation than getting reviews.

Getting reviews is a great start though.

Getting more enquiries from local searches involves a host of different actions from competitive research, keyword research, setting up business listings in authoritative directories, on-page optimisation, to reviewing, optimising and creating content and more.

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