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Review Management
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Reviews are the highest-impact local SEO signal you've got — and the loudest piece of social proof on your shopfront. Most businesses don't ask for them, don't respond to them, and don't know what to do when one goes south.

It's a foundational part of the Local SEO Package: active review generation after every completed job, response to every new review within hours in your voice, and a real playbook for the rare negative one.

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Part of the Local SEO Package · 6-month minimum · Then rolling monthly

5.0 on Google
Hours, not days, to respond
Review management in Aberdeen — reviews dashboard on desktop, tablet and mobile
Old way vs new way

Hoping for reviews isn't a strategy.

The default for most local businesses is to wait, hope, and find out about a 1-star a week after the fact. Then either ignore it or fire off a defensive reply. Both kill conversion. Reviews deserve a system, not a hope.

The old way

Hope. Ignore. Panic. Repeat.

  • Never ask — wait and hope happy customers remember.
  • Find out about a 1-star a week after it landed.
  • Defensive reply that makes it worse, or no reply at all.
  • "Thanks!" if anything — no personality, no SEO juice.
  • Fake reviews left unflagged — Google won't remove what you don't report.
Our way

Asked. Watched. Answered. Worked.

  • Follow-up system asks at the moment customers are happiest.
  • Every new review notified within minutes — not days.
  • Replied to in your voice, by hand — not a template, not a chatbot.
  • Negative-review playbook: respond, take offline, often win them back.
  • Fake reviews flagged to Google — most come off within a fortnight.
5.0 on Google
Avg. across clients
24+
Local #1 rankings
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Outsourced work
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City we call home
Value 01 · Generation

Ask. At the right moment. The right way.

Reviews don't appear by accident. The single biggest lever is asking — but timed right and worded right. A short, branded follow-up message (SMS or email) goes out 24–48 hours after a completed job, sale, or visit, with a one-click link straight to your Google review form. Fully compliant with Google's guidelines: no incentives, no review-gating, no funny business.

  • Follow-up sent at the customer's happiest moment — 24–48h after
  • One-click link straight to your Google review form — no friction
  • 100% Google-compliant — no incentives, no gating, no risk to your profile
Review request flow
From job done → 5-star
  • 1
    Job completed
    T+0h
    Trigger captured (CRM, calendar, manual)
  • 2
    Follow-up sent
    T+24h
    SMS or email · branded · 1-click review link
  • 3
    Customer clicks through
    T+25h
    Google review form opens with pre-filled rating prompt
  • 4
    5-star review goes live
    Win
    Notification fires · response queued in your voice
Every completed job, every customer, every time
Reviews dashboard
Live response queue
100% replied
Recent reviews
Marie K. · 2h ago Replied

"Brilliant service from start to finish. Same-day callout, fixed within an hour."

Your reply · 1h after

"Cheers Marie — really pleased we caught it before it got worse. Glad you're sorted!"

Jamie R. · Yesterday Replied

"Honest pricing, no surprises. Will definitely use them again."

Avg response time: hours · Avg sentiment: positive
Value 02 · Response

Hours, not days. In your voice.

Every new review pings me within minutes, and a reply lands within hours — written in your voice, not a generic "Thank you for your feedback!". Google rewards thoughtful, prompt responses with map-pack visibility. Customers see a business that actually cares. The next prospect reading your reviews sees a brand that pays attention.

  • Notified within minutes of any new review landing
  • Reply within hours, written in your voice — never a template
  • Every review approved by you before it goes live — your tone, your call
Value 03 · Negative playbook

A bad review, handled well, often becomes a 5-star.

Negative reviews are inevitable — and they're not always disasters. Handled defensively, they convert browsers into bouncers. Handled with empathy, honesty, and an offline path to resolution, they often get updated to 5-stars later. The rare genuinely fake ones (competitor or extortion) get flagged to Google through the proper channels — and usually come off.

  • Calm, empathetic public response — no defensiveness
  • Offline-resolution play — most upset customers update the review later
  • Fake/abusive reviews flagged to Google with proper documentation
Negative review
Sample playbook
Steven M. · 4h ago 2-star

"Booked an 8am callout. Engineer didn't arrive until 11. Lost half a day of work."

✓
Your public reply · 2h later

"Steven — that's not the morning we wanted you to have, and I'm sorry. The engineer was held up on an emergency callout but we should've called ahead. I've sent you a direct message to make it right. — Sam"

Outcome · 3 days later

Steven updated his review to 4-star, mentioning the team made it right.

Bad reviews handled well → trust signals
"Daniel was a pleasure to work with, extremely helpful, kind and really professional. I loved the outcome of my website, it's exactly what I've asked for and definitely helped my business to get far more recognition online."
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Anya
Eyeconic Beauty By Anya
Why us

Us, vs the other ways to handle reviews.

You can leave reviews to fate, ask the team to handle them, or hand them to a reputation-management tool. Here's how those stack up.

Us
DIY
SaaS tool
Big agency
Active review generation system
Manual ask
Response within hours, in your voice
If you remember
Auto-templates
Account exec
Negative-review playbook
Generic
Sometimes
Fake-review flagging to Google
Auto-flag
Google-compliant (no gating)
Depends
Some gate
Commitment
In SEO package
Hours of yours
Tool subscription
12-mo lock-in
How it works

From "we should ask more" to a steady drip of 5-stars.

Four phases of actual work. The follow-up system kicks in from week one and runs in the background; the ongoing response work runs forever after.

1

Profile audit

Existing reviews catalogued, response gaps identified, fake reviews flagged for removal, and your voice and tone documented from past replies and customer-facing copy.

Week 1
2

System setup

Review request automation wired into your job-completion flow. Branded SMS/email templates. Notification system for new reviews. Voice + tone guide agreed.

Week 1
3

Ongoing response

Every new review answered within hours, in your voice. Bad reviews handled through the playbook. Fake ones flagged to Google. You approve before anything goes live.

Ongoing
4

Negative-review playbook

The rare bad one gets a calm, empathetic public reply plus an offline path to resolution. Fake or abusive reviews get flagged to Google with proper documentation — most come off within a fortnight.

When needed
Recent work

Aberdeen businesses earning trust.

See all our work
Eyeconic Beauty by Anya website homepage
Web Design Local SEO

Eyeconic Beauty

A clean, conversion-focused site that now ranks #1 across 24+ local search terms. Oldmeldrum.
The Garioch Fish Bar website homepage
Local SEO Web Design

The Garioch Fish Bar

Holds the #1 spot on Google for "fish and chips Inverurie" — the highest-intent search in the patch. Inverurie.
Inverurie West Parish Church website homepage
Web Design

Inverurie West Parish Church

A warm, accessible website that makes service times, events and online giving easy to find. Inverurie.
Common questions

Got a question? Likely answered.

What Aberdeen business owners ask before handing over their reviews. If yours isn't here, just ring.

Can I get this without the full Local SEO Package?
Review management sits inside the Local SEO Package because reviews compound with the rest of the local stack — GBP, citations, on-page, link building. Standalone is possible if reviews are the only piece you need, but the ranking lift is much smaller without the rest of the foundations.

How does the review generation actually work?
A short, branded follow-up message (SMS or email — your choice) goes out 24–48 hours after a completed job, sale, or visit. Inside it is a one-click link straight to your Google review form. The trigger can be plugged into your CRM, calendar, invoicing tool, or run manually if you'd rather keep it simple. The ask is short, warm, and never pushy.

What about Google's rules on review-gating?
Fully compliant. Review-gating — where you pre-screen customers and only push the happy ones to leave a Google review — violates Google's policies and risks profile suspension. Every customer who completes a job gets the same ask, no screening, no incentives. The system works because it's well-timed and frictionless, not because it's stacking the deck.

What if I get a really bad review?
You'll know within minutes. I'll draft a calm, takes-responsibility-where-appropriate, offers-to-make-it-right response within the hour — you approve before it goes live. We also reach out offline to resolve the underlying issue. Most upset customers who feel heard update the review later — sometimes all the way to 5-star.

Can fake or malicious reviews be removed?
Often, yes. Reviews that breach Google's policies — fake accounts, competitor sabotage, off-topic rants, hate speech — can be flagged for removal with proper documentation. Most legitimate flag requests come off within a fortnight. Honest negative reviews can't be removed (nor should they be), but those are exactly the ones we want to respond to publicly and resolve offline.

What kind of impact does this have on rankings?
Reviews are one of the top-3 ranking factors for the local map pack — quantity, recency, rating, and response rate all feed in. A steady drip of fresh 4–5 star reviews with consistent owner responses sends Google strong "active business" signals. The exact lift depends on your category and competition, but in tight local markets it's often the single biggest mover.

Do you cover my area?
Aberdeen and across the North-East — Aberdeen, Inverurie, Stonehaven, Westhill, Peterhead, Banchory, Ellon, Fraserburgh and beyond. Review management is mostly remote anyway, but knowing the local landscape — what good and bad service looks like in your patch — helps me write responses that land. Browse the location pages for the rest.
Locations we serve

Local SEO across the North-East.

Based in the Granite City, ranking businesses right across Aberdeenshire — wherever your customers are searching.

Aberdeen Inverurie Stonehaven Westhill Peterhead Banchory Ellon Fraserburgh
Ready to build trust

Let's earn — and respond to — every review you get.

Drop me a line and we'll have a 20-minute chat about your current review profile, where the gaps are, and what a proper system would look like — review management is part of the Local SEO Package.

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