How Do I See Reviews On Google Maps?

May 29, 2022

When you go to Google Maps to check a business near you or your business, all you have to do is click on the pin drop and then scroll down to see the reviews. You can sort reviews by newest or oldest, or worst or best. Be careful when checking on reviews. Make sure it’s not from the owner’s family members or employees. Also, look out for incentivized reviews where there was a T-shirt giveaway in exchange for a review on Google where the person never even use the service.

Usually, legitimate reviews will be detailed from a real account that has more than one review left on other sites. Real legitimate accounts also usually have pictures and reviews more than just that particular site. If you come across a business with a lot of reviews and all the reviews have only left one review and it was for that business and it’s a generic name with no picture and no Google history of their own, that might indicate fake reviews.

For high ticket items like a Jacuzzi or a pool or a roofing contractor, it’s okay to potentially find someone who left a glowing review or three of them and try to contact them and ask them how the service really was. Especially when you’re spending $10,000 or $50,000.

Thomas J. Kane

At 16 years old in 1997 I built my first client website for a car dealership. At 17 I was one of the first few people in Kansas to be Cisco Networking Certified and I helped co-build the first computer network for a high school, two elementary schools, a hospital, and a 911 station. By the age of 40 now I have over 25,000 hours in content writing mastery and Google Advertising/SEO and have worked with over 480 different industries, amazing mentors, SEO & PPC corporate team leader at Godaddy.com, trained other SEO company's staff, managed over $37M dollars in advertising spend since 2007 for multiple companies and spent over $1M in A/B testing, created landing pages, sales funnels and massive PPC campaigns for the USA's #1 automotive leads provider, helped expand a global e-commerce business from 5 English sites to 122 sites in 30 countries in 7 languages, owned two #1 top-ranked SEO companies, in both Arizona & Kansas. Won all-expense-paid trip awards from Google for PPC performance, and been to the headquarters in Boston and California, and worked with 3 dedicated senior Google PPC teams at 3 major companies. I run an online advertising service for Montana, Kansas, Arizona & Florida businesses, as well as manage large campaigns for online national stores and services. Into renewable energy, solar, wind energy, crypto currency, Tesla, Nikola, natural health and healing, traveling, psychology, human behavior analysis, lie detection, forward progress, inspirational and educational writing, research, and analysis. Fascinated with AI (https://thomasj.ai/) and how it relates to the future of search and information.