Google review automation that asks for you.
Most contractors have a pile of good work behind them and almost nothing on their Google profile to show it. The reason is rarely the work. It is that nobody asks, or somebody asks three weeks later by email when the homeowner has already moved on.
Google review automation takes the asking off your plate. When a job is marked complete, a short request goes out by text and by email, in your company name, with a direct link to your Google profile. Nothing for your crew to remember and nothing for the office to chase.
If you have ever looked up how to get more Google reviews, every answer comes back to the same two things: ask every customer, and ask while the job is still fresh. Automating it is simply the only way that happens on every job instead of the ones somebody remembered.
How we run review generation.
Timing is the whole trick. A review request that lands within a few hours of the final walkthrough gets answered at a much higher rate than one that lands next week. The homeowner is still standing in the finished room, or still relieved that the water is running again. We tie the request to job completion so it hits that window every time.
Text carries the request and email backs it up. Most homeowners answer the text. Older customers and commercial contacts tend to answer the email. Sending both, spaced out rather than stacked, lifts the response rate without making anyone feel chased. If a review comes in, the follow-up stops automatically.
The metric that matters is velocity, not the lifetime total. Google reads a steady stream of recent reviews as evidence that a business is active and currently trusted. Twelve reviews from the last three months will generally outperform forty reviews that all landed three years ago. So the system is built to keep producing at a consistent rate rather than to run one big push and go quiet.
We request from every single customer, with no filtering and no gating. There is no survey in front of the link that routes happy people to Google and unhappy people to a private form. That practice violates Google policy and it distorts the one signal your future customers actually rely on. Everybody gets the same request and the same link.
Common questions about review generation.
- Do you screen customers before asking for a review?
- No. Every customer gets the same request with the same direct link to your Google profile. Filtering or gating (sending happy customers to Google and unhappy ones to a private form) is against Google policy and it is the kind of thing that gets profiles penalized. We do not do it.
- What if a customer leaves a bad review?
- It happens to every company that does real volume, and a profile with a handful of critical reviews among many good ones reads as more credible than a wall of perfect fives. What matters is how you answer. That is handled under review responses, and the response gets drafted and posted fast.
- How many new reviews should I expect?
- It scales with how many jobs you complete and how good your customer contact data is. Response rates on a well-timed text request are meaningfully higher than on a delayed email. We report the actual monthly count and the trend rather than promise a number up front.
- Do my crews have to do anything?
- Only mark the job complete, which most crews already do. The request goes out from there. No scripts to read, no cards to hand out, no QR codes to explain at the curb.
Tell us what is not working.
Tell us about your business and what is not working: the reviews you cannot get, the profile nobody sees, the calls that never come back.
We will look at where you stand and tell you what we would run first.