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Greg Gifford

Facebook Gets Rid of Reviews and Changes to Recommendations

 

5 stars, 2 stars, 0 stars. For more than a hundred years, we’ve been ranking businesses with a star ranking system. “It’s a 5 star hotel, we have to go!”  or “Eh, it’s only 3 stars. I’d rather skip out.” We chose businesses entirely on their stars and that’s about to change. Facebook has decided to make it simpler for people to interact with local businesses with recommendations. The recent switch will  help people discover new services, places or events based upon their friends’ recommendations.

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Are you responding to reviews the right way?

In this week’s Wednesday Workshop, we talk about responding to bad reviews. Most dealers (and many reputation management providers) post the same generic response to every negative review… and that’s the worst thing your dealership can do!

It’s important to let customers know that you’re responding to the actual review – it shows that you care about your customers. Watch the video to learn how to respond to negative reviews the right way, so your reputation will shine.
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How to use a call tracking number in your Google My Business listing

For years, it was always a bad idea to put a tracking number in your Google listing because it screwed up your NAP (name, address, phone) consistency signal for Google’s algorithm. Finally, Google changed things and now it’s perfectly OK to use a tracking number in Google My Business.

In this week’s Wednesday Workshop video, we walk you through the right way to use a tracking number in GMB, so you won’t cause any problems with the NAP consistency factor in the local algo. Check it out, and go get your GMB listing updated!
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