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Example Email for Google Reviews

admin23 — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:27:32 +0000

If you own a company or business, you have probably noticed that Google Maps has become the modern YellowPages over the last couple years. With more and more people recycling the white and yellow pages as soon as they arrive on their doorstep, people no longer need the big bulky books with thousands of listings.

When a Google user searches for anything local they will see the Google Places listings. This is the new Yellow Pages and for any business that is trying to increase sales or leads not being listed in the top can seriously effect your bottom line.

Part of having a good listing in Google Maps or places is to have good/positive reviews for your business. Without them, and your prospective customer will will likely be calling your competitor instead. For this reason it’s essential to be pro-active with promoting your Google Places page and sometimes, asking or making a polite request for a Google review.

One of the problems with asking for reviews is that it seems like it can be a lot of work for a person that has never left a review before. It’s really pretty easy. A Google review can be completed in as little as 3 minutes from start to finish. Create a Gmail account, make a local search for the business you want to review, click on the link for the business you want to leave a review for and then leave the review.

To make it even easier on your customers, I’ve created an example email of what you can send to them so they can click on the link to your business and leave a review.

Example:

Nancy,

Thank you once again for choosing our company. I know that we discussed the possibility of you posting a review for us on Google. Since your time is valuable, I wanted to send you a link to our Google Places page. Here you can rate and review our business:

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=12058839697840141301

Thank you for your time.

Mike Tester

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Building 1 Way Links

admin23 — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:10:19 +0000

A basic how-to for building 1 way links using a 3 way linking system.

Find 10 websites that you want to get a link from. In order to keep track of them all, list them out in an excel file.
Add/publish the websites to your link directory or directory website.
Draft the emails to go out to your 10 potential link partners. Your emails should include the link to where their website is listed in our directory, and the information that you want them to add to their website.
After your 10 emails are proof read and everything looks good, send them out. At this point it’s important to mark down in your excel file what date you sent the initial link exchange requests.
Follow up! This is probably the most important step, follow up about 3 to 5 days after you sent the initial link exchange emails out, to see if the potential link partners added your link. If they didn’t add your link email them a second time.
Follow up again! At this point it should be about 7 to 10 days since the initial request. If the prospective link partner didn’t add your site after the second email you sent them, remove their site from your directory page.

Make sure to email the owner of the site you removed. Explain to them (keep it short and sweet) that you removed their link because they didn’t link back to you. This is your third and final email to the prospective link partner. This last and final email is super important because many times it’s what finally grabs the person’s attention on the other end of your link exchange request.
Wrap it up and move on… Mark it down in your excel file if the prospective link partner did or did not link back to you. Even if they didn’t link back to you, keep track of it in your excel file so you have a solid record of the sites you attempted to reach out and connect with.

Repeat steps 1 through 7 for each of your projects several times a week if possible. Generally speaking, the more requests you send out = the more links you’re going to receive. Don’t forget, follow through with each request to make sure that your directory isn’t draining your link juice and your Pagerank.