The ReviewKit blog

Practical, no-fluff guides on getting more Google reviews.

Local Services Ads: Which Reviews Count Toward Your Ad

Google collapsed the Local Services Ads badges into one Google Verified check and ended the money-back guarantee behind it. What that leaves your reviews doing.

CRM for Small Business: When You Do Not Need One

Search this and the first page is CRM vendors explaining why you need a CRM. Here is the honest version for a service business with one follow-up problem.

Review Monitoring for a One-Location Business

The category sells you charts. A single-location business needs to know within a day that a one-star review landed. Here is the difference, and the free version.

Google Business Profile Support: The Real Routes

Nobody searches this when things are fine. Here is what Google's own help pages name as contact routes, and which one matches the problem you have.

Word of Mouth Marketing for a Local Business

For a local service business word of mouth is not a campaign. It is the recommendation that already happens, in private, and then expires. Here is how to keep one.

Customer Satisfaction Surveys for Service Businesses

A survey tells you something you suspect but cannot see. A review request builds proof a stranger can read. Here is which to send, when, and how to run both.

Online Reputation Management for a Local Business

The category was built for brands with a press office. For a plumber or a clinic the work is three habits, and one part worth paying a person for.

How to See My Google Reviews, Both Kinds

The reviews you wrote and the reviews of your business sit in different Google products. Here is the route to each, and why the list can come back empty.

How to Ask for a Referral Without Losing the Review

A referral ask and a review ask want the same moment at the end of a job. Here is which one to spend it on, where the other belongs, and how to word both.

Google Business Profile Suspended: What to Do First

Google says the public cannot reach a suspended profile. That includes every review request you have in flight. Here is what to stop, then how to appeal.

Customer Testimonials vs Google Reviews: Which to Ask For

A testimonial sits on a page you own. A Google review sits on the page your next customer checks first. Here is which one to ask for, and when.

Google Review Not Showing Up? An Owner's Checklist

A customer says they left you a review and it is not there. Here is how an owner separates a delayed review from a deleted one, or from a wrong listing.

How to Create a Google Business Profile

Adding a listing, claiming one that already exists and taking one back from another owner are three different flows. Work out which you are in first.

How to Leave an Anonymous Google Review

Google has no private review. What it has is a custom display name, and that is a different thing. Here is what it changes, for the reviewer and the owner.

How to Edit a Google Review You Already Left

The edit control is not on the business listing, which is why people cannot find it. Here is where it lives, and what an edit changes that nobody mentions.

Google Reviews Widget: Should You Add One?

Every result for this term is a vendor selling the widget. Here is the question underneath, the narrow case where embedding earns its place, and what to fix first.

Google Business Profile Verification: Every Method

Verification is not a menu you choose from. Google assigns the method. Here is what each one asks of you, and the traps that cost you the wait.

What Buying Google Reviews Actually Looks Like

Search this and every result either sells reviews or warns about them. Here is what a bought batch looks like on a real listing, and what the same money buys.

SMS vs Email for Review Requests

Text or email for review requests? Skip the open-rate stats. Here is what each channel needs before it sends, and what actually comes back to you.

The Best Time to Ask for a Review

Every guide says ask right after the job. That describes your customer, not your day. Here is how to turn it into a trigger you can actually act on.

Reputation Management Cost: What You Actually Pay

Search reputation management cost and you get ranges from firms that sell it. Here is what sets the number, and the price we publish.

Google Review Policy: What You Cannot Do

Two rulebooks govern how you ask for reviews: Google's content policy and a federal rule. Here is what each forbids, and what happens when you break it.

Google Review Cards: What to Print and Where

A Google review card is a printed link. Here is how to make one free, what to put on it, where to stand it, and the catch in the cards you buy.

How to Remove a Google Review (and When You Cannot)

You cannot delete a review someone else wrote. You can flag it against a named Google policy, appeal once, or go the legal route. Here is each path.

Google Business Profile Optimization, Field by Field

Google names three things that decide local ranking: relevance, distance and prominence. Here is which profile field feeds which, and which feed none.

How to Leave a Google Review, Step by Step

Leaving a Google review takes a Google account and a couple of taps. Here is the exact path on a phone, on a computer, and from a review link.

How to Find Your Google Place ID (Step by Step)

Your Google Place ID is a short code that points to your business on Google. Here's how to find it in under a minute and paste it into ReviewKit.

How to Get More Google Reviews: 9 Practical Ways

Want more 5-star Google reviews? Here are 9 practical ways to get more Google reviews for your business, from making the ask to automating it entirely.

How to Ask Customers for Reviews (Templates That Work)

The exact way to ask customers for reviews - what to say, when to send it, and copy-paste text and email templates that actually get responses.

Google Review QR Code: How to Create One Free (2026)

Create a free Google review QR code customers can scan to leave a review in one tap. Here's how to make one and where to put it for the most reviews.