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How to get more Google reviews

You do good work and have twelve Google reviews. The fix isn't asking more people — it's asking at the moment they're happiest.

7 industries · prices checked 27 July 2026

What to know

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Ask straight away, get three times more

One message with the review link, sent right when the job is done — not in a Friday batch, days later.

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Your software can send it for you

Job software and booking platforms can send the review request automatically when a job closes.

Don't filter reviews, don't auto-reply

Hiding unhappy customers from Google breaks the platform's rules. And an automated reply under a real complaint makes it worse.

How to implement this today

  1. 1

    Get your Google review link — open your Google Business Profile and copy the 'ask for reviews' link.

  2. 2

    Turn on the post-job review request in your job or booking software, with that link in it.

  3. 3

    Time it to the happy moment: job just done, car picked up, the morning after the meal.

  4. 4

    Ask everyone — never filter who gets asked, and reply to bad reviews yourself, never automatically.

The fixes, industry by industry

5 of the 7 industries already own a fix for this.

Pick your trade and this rewrites itself in its words, its tools, its prices.

Already in software you pay for · 5 fixes

A setting inside a product you already license. Check your plan.

Free, but you set it up · 2 fixes

No new subscription — a template, a habit, or a free tier.

When not to solve this with software

Two hard edges: filtering who gets asked breaks Google's rules, and an automated reply under a real complaint damages exactly what the reviews were for.

Review gating or filtering tools. auto repair guide

Software that screens unhappy customers away from Google violates review-platform rules and, when discovered, torches the trust the reviews were meant to build. Ask everyone at handover; fix the service, not the filter.

AI review responses on autopilot. restaurants guide

A templated apology under a genuine complaint reads as exactly what it is, publicly, forever. Draft with whatever tool you like — but the owner reads, edits and owns every reply to a bad review, because the reply is the marketing.

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