google+ & facebook reviews

[tony84]

I have never really used google+ but I notice there is a bit for reviews. When I go into the reviews bit it says reviews from around the internet.

I have a few reviews on my facebook page and im just wondering whether I can get those reviews to display on google (without asking people to re-write them) and if so how.

 

[iiisark]

You can't. Google decides which reviews to display in the block: "reviews from around the web". You can ask your customers to write some good reviews for yout busienss on sites like Yelp and Trustpilot and they will eventually show up there.

 

[StevePoster]

Google will only show your reviews in the search results if those content are interesting, engaging, beneficial, and shared by other people.

 

[money road]

i think , Facabook is popular more than G+, because FB have fanpage , facebook game , facebook question but G+ haven't

Talking about Google+
First you have to have personal profile
Then you can make fan page
Yes there are no games, but that means community(and social network itself) is more serious (that is just my opinion).
Facebook even copying some functions, for example: sorting people into circles.
Yes it is not so popular in UK, but USA is different story.

 

[amac]

If you look at ranking contribution, FB and G+ are right up there and perhaps above SEO and some of the more traditional ranking signals. Definitely worth investing time in syncing your content to these social networks using e.g. Buffer, Zapier etc.

 

[JonV6]

As most people here have stated there's no real way to game the Google review system. I feel they're definitely worth trying to acquire though as they can really help your listing in SERPs stand out from your competitors.

 

[Jayser100]

Google Plus is the one social media platform that, used wisely, can improve your SERPS significantly. I would advise against lazily posting the same stuff on Google Plus, Twitter and Facebook though because Google might just pick this up as an attempt to 'spam' your way to the top of the rankings. I use all three but I post different content on all of them each week and this seems to be okay.

 

[JonV6]

I use all three but I post different content on all of them each week and this seems to be okay.

Personally, I wouldn't be too concerned about posting the same content across multiple platforms. If your content is good there shouldn't be any issue with you exposing it to your different audiences. I would say quality far outweighs uniqueness across platforms.

 

[InternetMarketingPlatinum]

You can't. Google decides which reviews to display in the block: "reviews from around the web". You can ask your customers to write some good reviews for yout busienss on sites like Yelp and Trustpilot and they will eventually show up there.

You can ask your customers to write some reviews...asking them to write some good reviews is kinda cohersing them isn't it.

 

[UKSBD]

People have to be logged in to Google to leave a Google review.

Now that you can pin posts on Google+ it makes sense to pin a post asking people to leave a review and either steer people to that post or steers them direct to the review form by adding ?review=1 to the end of your Google+ Page URL

As suggested though, you shouldn't really be asking them to write a good review or offering any reward for them to do so.

 

[Dan Izzard]

Does anyone know about review schema that pulls though to search results. I've seen a number of Wordpress reviews that promise to offer this but I thought that these had to be approved by Google. I've also been seeing recently that a number of blog posts and business pages have pulled through to results pages when I'm logged in to my Google account and although these are only a couple of instances it looks to be worth it.

Google Plus page setup is part of one of the Huddlebuy perks in our new membership so that may be worth a look.

 

[HazelC]

Sadly FB reviews won't be shown as G+ reviews, but you can ask the same people / businesses to post them on G+ too?

I also copy and paste the reviews left for me on FB and Google+ and use them on my website in the testimonials part of my website.

 

[Ideaswise]

Yes, always ask satisfied customers if they have a Google account and then ask for a Google review. If nothing else, it helps you stand out in Google local results.

 

[altonroot]

One solution I have thought for one client but some unfortunate circumstances I didn't get opportunity to do it practical. Through api or widget, you can try to import reviews from various platforms on your website and than add schema on it. Yet again let me clear, I haven't tried it.
Reviews on Google's my business page automatically appears in search so try to get more reviews there instead of Facebook.