How Online Reviews Get You Seen Online

If you’re a medical practice, dental office, veterinary practice, or auto shop and you haven’t considered what it means to rank high on Google or have good reviews, you’re missing out on key revenue opportunities.

Online reviews are now the most trusted source for potential patients, clients, and customers who are trying to choose between all the options out there. Over 80% of consumers now trust online reviews as much as a peer recommendation, and the more reviews you have, the better.

How Online Reviews Help You Show Up In Search

Having online reviews doesn’t just help in getting patients to trust you… it also will organically help increase your business’ search engine rankings. All the major search engines – Google, Yahoo, Citysearch, and Bing – are fans of reviews. This is because users like reviews, and these search engines want to provide users with useful information. A practice, shop, or business that has generated online reviews will be shown higher on the search results page than one without reviews. Plus, if you’re searching say, on Google for a business, and your business has enough reviews and information about it to make it more relevant than other listings, Google will often showcase its Google Local business page in the search results, providing your business with a big boost in online visibility over competitors.

How Online Reviews Keep You High on the Page

One of the ways that search engines like Google and Bing make sure that their content is up-to-date is by checking for new content. Every time a customer reviews your business and posts it online, the search engines identify that as new content, and rewards that business and that page by keeping it higher in the search results. Both your office’s actual website and the review site for your place of business benefit from new online reviews.

How Having Multiple Business Listings Helps Online Visibility

Another factor to consider is that having multiple business listings spread across major consumer sites ensures that you get seen by the widest possible group of consumers, regardless of where they are coming from, and what search engine they use. Have you ever seen a Bing search result or review pop up on Google? Or a Yahoo review? Probably not, and that’s because the major search engines don’t want to provide their competitors with free traffic. That’s another reason why USER-generated online reviews are so important, as those are the only ones search engines will show (aside from ones on their own platforms).

This is why your business can benefit from having complete and accurate business listings on Google, Bing, Citysearch, Yellowpages, Demandforce Local, and more. You cover 95% of where local searches occur.

If just thinking about managing 4+ business listings makes your head spin, don’t worry. If you invest in a platform like Demandforce, you can just log into your Demandforce portal and manage all your local business listings in one place. We’ll keep your contact information and business hours updated automatically, so you don’t have to take care of it manually.

How Demandforce Can Help You Get More Online Reviews

As one of the many features of Demandforce, your business gets help with reputation management and collecting online reviews. However, we know that in order to leverage reviews on sites like Google, it’s not just about getting high numbers, it’s about how you collect and manage them as well. Demandforce not only provides you with ways to automatically request reviews from patients and clients, but they also allow you to showcase positive reviews on your website, Facebook page, and Demandforce business profile.

Demandforce also helps you make sure that the business reviews online are from your actual patients and clients. This helps protect your online reputation, and boosts word-of-mouth referrals as well. And while some lower-star ratings are actually useful (they help show that your business is ‘real’ and the reviews are legitimate, Demandforce also allows you to target certain patients for review requests, so you increase the likelihood that the review your clients post will be a positive one.

Plus, when a client submits positive feedback about your business, we encourage them to share their experience with their social network. We make it easy to post a link recommending your business on Facebook, so you get more business, and they get the chance to refer a friend or relative.

For more information on how Demandforce can help get you seen online, visit demandforce.com or schedule a free demo with one of our experts: (888) 272-7821.

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