# How to get more Google reviews?

- URL : https://1440o.com/en/questions/get-more-google-reviews/
- Langue : English

Short answer: ask, every happy customer, at the moment they're happy, with the direct link. Profiles with 200 reviews don't have better customers — they have a routine. Without actively asking, the rating reflects the worst days (only the unhappy rate spontaneously).

The routine:
1. **In the moment** — the compliment at the counter, the end of the job: that's when the ask converts.
2. **The direct link** (provided by Google: "Ask for reviews") as a QR code on the counter/invoice + a thank-you text or WhatsApp message.
3. **A human sentence**: "A Google review helps us enormously — it's what keeps a business like ours alive."
4. **Steadiness**: 10 reviews/month for a year > 100 in January (freshness; bursts trigger the anti-fraud filters).
5. **Reply to every review** — visible to future customers, and it feeds the next asks.

Forbidden (Google's rules, and consumer-protection authorities): buying reviews, writing them yourself, rewarding a review (even an honest one), and "review gating" (only asking happy customers).

What reviews are for: local ranking (count, rating, freshness, replies), conversion, and AI assistants — which recycle the text of reviews to describe the business.

1440° sets up this loop and drafts every reply, approved with one tap: https://1440o.com/en/pricing/ — Free scan: https://1440o.com/en/scan/