Every tool in this category samples a system that answers differently on a re-ask, then prints a percentage. The useful question is what sits in the denominator, and whether it can ask per location.
Making the change takes a minute. Getting Google to keep it is the part nobody writes about.
Each review site buries its owner notification somewhere different, and switching every one of them on still leaves you checking things by hand.
Google does not join two profiles into one. It stops showing the one it calls a duplicate, and only one of the three routes brings the reviews across.
The message says a customer left you one star and there is a link to read it. Before you click, open the profile yourself.
The reviews are already public. A fixed taxonomy and a spreadsheet can turn them into a useful operating list.
Most guides answer this by telling you to switch Recommendations off. Almost none of them mention that you lose every good review with it.
Clients ask for it because reviews are the one part of local marketing they can see for themselves, and it costs more to run than most agencies quote.
