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Negative Google reviews can adversely affect your business, including driving away potential customers, impacting your reputation, and lowering your business’ search engine rankings.
Fortunately, it is possible to remove negative reviews and rehabilitate your business image.
But keep in mind, negative reviews don’t necessarily have to adversely affect your business. There are ways to use negative reviews to your advantage.
5 Steps to Delete a Google Review
Negative Google reviews impact your overall online reputation, so knowing about them is step one in managing your online reputation. Getting rid of them is the next step to improve your online presence.
Fixing a damaged reputation isn’t easy, but ignoring a bad online reputation can cost you a lot. So resist the temptation to bury your head in the sand.
Staying on top of Google reviews is a great place to begin, and you have options as far as deleting the negative ones.
Admittedly, some of these steps work better than others. But you can also use a combination of the steps to fine-tune your results.
- Delete Your Own Reviews (Optional)
- Use an Online Reputation Management Company (WebiMax)
- Request the Author to Delete the Review
- Flag Fake or Inappropriate Reviews
- Get More Positive Reviews
The Easy Parts of Deleting a Google Review
Some parts of deleting a Google review are fairly straightforward.
For example, Google may consider deleting negative reviews made by your direct competitors. The conflict of interest in these types of reviews is strong grounds for asking Google to delete the review.
Google also removes reviews that infringe on its review policies. Taking down a negative review by a disgruntled…