26-11-18Global River News

Jon Hassett

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We design and build stunning, easy to manage websites that don’t cost the earth. A range of Search Engine Optimisation, and Digital marketing tools and services do the rest. Our business, is growing yours!

Web Designer Reviews

We have been researching review services for ourselves for a year or so now. We have long been amazed that there are not better servcies around for customers looking for Web Designer Reviews before deciding on a Web Designer to use. In addition, we have installed Trust Pilot for E-Commerce customers, for them to collect reviews.

Having great reviews for your business can deliver great benefits and plenty of new business. More and more reviews are part of the research process, that businesses undertake when deciding who to use. You will now see star ratings all over the first page of Google as they have begun to partner with a number of review providers to display the star rating within the Google listing. In the same way that Trip Advisor has changed the way we choose accommodation, these reviews will be affecting who browsers choose to contact.

We have been looking at the results for searches such as “Web Designer Reviews” and can see immediately that our industry is only supported by genuine review only services (Google and Trust Pilot), as well as quite a few sites fishing for leads.

Trust Pilot

Currently the market leader, Trust Pilot offer a range of great services for website owners to gather and market their reviews;

Benefits

• Links on your website for your customers to leave reviews
• Quick and easy
• Verified by Trust Pilot
• “Widgets” to pull through your rating wherever you would like to display them on your website
• Well known trusted brand
• Once you have 100+ reviews you can have your Star rating shown on your Google listing

Drawbacks

• Poor directory for people looking for great web design companies

Google

Once you have a small number of Google reviews your Star Rating will be displayed on your listing, as well as your Google My Business listing;

Benefits

• Reviews show immediately
• Trusted brand

Drawbacks

• Users have to be registered with Google to leave a review. Registering with Google for the first time is not easy!
• No Directory showing the best companies 

Thompson Verified

The new kid on the block we have chosen to go with is Thompson verified!

Benefits

• Links on your website for your customers to leave reviews
• Quick and easy
• Verified by Thompson
• “Widgets” to pull through your rating wherever you would like to display them on your website
• Well known trusted brand
• Thompson will call your customers to get each review in person!

We will keep this post updated to let you know how we get on with Thompson Verified and let you know if any new entrants to the market grab our attention. For our customers, Thompson will be in touch following our latest piece of work to get your review!