Comments on: Online Reputation Management Strategies – The “Rate Us” Page and Local Reviews

By: Scott Clark

Scott Clark — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:24:58 +0000

It’s actually present in my robots.txt file so that it is not indexed by any engines. Very keen observation

Disallow: /rate-me

By: Misty

Misty — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:45:54 +0000

Great post! Would you tend to put a nofollow on the “rate us” page so that it doesn’t get indexed into search engines? or should you leave it?

Thank you,

By: Millard Clark

Millard Clark — Sun, 23 May 2010 03:39:27 +0000

Extremely valuable information for small businesses hoping to do well in their local market. Thanks for the thorough post.

By: Irene

Irene — Sun, 16 May 2010 18:06:31 +0000

Great post. This is exactly the information that I am looking for. Thanks a lot. This is really helpful.

By: roy morejon

roy morejon — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:25:21 +0000

Excellent idea Scott, ratings are important for any size business, large and small. I have always used follow up emails for this type of user-input but a “live” page is a great idea -especially a video of how to do it! Well done.

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By: Scott Clark

Scott Clark — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:18:00 +0000

This is an excellent point indeed. The “update on premises” idea is not something I’ve seen done much, so never run into the problem. But I think this is worthy of an update to the post.

By: William Lang

William Lang — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:13:24 +0000

Excellent post. I also really like the idea of the dedicated rate-us page. However, I wouldn’t necessarily encourage visitors to leave reviews on the company premises. I do work with a small hotel and TripAdvisor reviews are a big deal. I know they discourage this practice and too many reviews from the same ip address group/region will raise red flags.

By: Scott Clark

Scott Clark — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:05:33 +0000

great… if you put up any rate-us pages or set up any dedicated rate-us cards, make sure to let us see it!

By: Stever

Stever — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:28:18 +0000

Awesome post!

I’ve been telling business owners to have this in a thank you email with links to a few review sites so customer can choose where they like to leave a review, maybe with a site they are already familiar with, or already have a user account. But I really like this idea of a dedicated web page where you can provide more info, then just link to it from emails, cards, etc…