How To Leave A Google Places Review

by David Bruce Jr on 2010/05/05

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes

How to leave a glowing review of the quality services provided by Commercial Building Maintenance LLC on Google:

Google Maps Review Step 1
step one: you must have a gmail account  AND a Google account. (it is possible to have one but not the other)

If you don’t already have a gmail account, please go here http://gmail.com and signup for one
it’s a good idea to list a secondary email that you use frequently to have the password sent to you should you forget it.

Google Maps Review Step 2

step two: once signed in to gmail, click on Google account in the upper right corner of the page

Google Review Box

step three, please type in the following: commercial cleaning
that will take you here: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=commercial+cleaning

(note this is worldwide search results, we’re currently ranked at #16 worldwide, on the 2ond page of worldwide Google search results)
there will be 3 “pink” listings (paid or sponsored listings)
then the top 3 “organic” or “natural” search listings
then the box with the maps, that’s the local business listings
Google just changed the name of this service from “Google Local Business Listings” to “Google Places”

Local business results for commercial cleaning near Frederick, MD

At the bottom of this 3 pack (that’s what we call it in our industry jargon) there is this link:

More results near Frederick, MD »

As of this post we’re currently #16 worldwide and on  Page 2 of about 36,400,000 results

Please click on “Write a review”

Thank you very much for taking the time to jump through all these hoops!

Note to any business owner reading this post: If you cheat, Google WILL FIND OUT. You aren’t the first person to attempt to leave fake reviews. Google knows how many pieces of toilet paper you used to wipe your butt… any fake reviews will be “lost” when the algorithm discovers that the email address used for the review is owned by the business owner or if said fake review was published from the business owners IP address… every possible way to cheat the system has already been attempted and Google engineers have rewritten the code that runs the algorithm to screen out false reviews.

What happens if you do cheat?

Purgatory

Your listing will be degraded (not rank high) until the spam filter determines if those reviews are real or not.

You have no idea how many business owners call me to get their ranking back because they were overzealous in attempting to boost their own rankings. Frederick Web Promotions can pull your fat out of the fire with the Google Powers That Be for $2400.00

David Bruce Jr

Google Places Consultant Frederick Web Promotions

240 397-9804

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Inta G August 30, 2010 at 9:48 pm

thank you it helped a lot. Great article!!!

Hotel Systems February 8, 2011 at 7:47 am

Thank you for this very useful article. It will help me greatly in the coming weeks!

jareb April 13, 2011 at 6:26 pm

thank you I have been messing with it trying to figure it out for my website and users to leave us a review for a future discount

Wesley May 10, 2011 at 2:58 pm

We have heard recently that Gmail accounts were no longer required in order for patients to leave reviews. Is this information accurate? If yes, what link is used in order to do this? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

ApexPredator May 21, 2011 at 10:33 pm

Google keeps going back and forth on this one, you used to have to have a gmail account to leave a review, then you didn’t, I believe now you do again

falloutperson416 July 24, 2011 at 3:04 pm

Nice article, I especially enjoy the useless comments that just link to their sites!

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