Right here is one other examine from Pleasure Hawkins and mates. This examine says that upvoting opinions are likely to preserve the opinions on the native listings up for an extended time period.
Upvotes are once you thumbs up or just like the opinions already left on a enterprise native itemizing in Google. Here’s a screenshot:
The examine confirmed that usually the extra upvotes a assessment has, the longer that assessment stays on the Google native itemizing. Pleasure stated they “tracked opinions in a number of industries (garden care, a jeweler, a advertising and marketing firm, and a handyman) for six months to at least one yr. Based on our examine, opinions with at the least two upvotes stayed within the prime ten, on common, for nearly 100 extra days than opinions with zero or one upvote.”
Right here is the chart exhibiting the variety of upvotes on opinions and the way lengthy these opinions lasted:
Pleasure stated, “It does appear worthwhile to encourage prospects to upvote opinions that they discovered useful in your itemizing whereas they’re leaving you a assessment themselves.”
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