@darrenshawseo

This is crazy. Google is now asking your customers to snitch on you. Some users are seeing this question, does this business offer rewards in exchange for reviews?

So if you're giving people discounts, gifts, or freebies for leaving a Google review, you need to stop.

Google reviews are extremely important for rankings and conversions, but incentivizing reviews is against Google's guidelines. In the best case, incentivized reviews just get removed. In the worst case, your Google Business Profile could get suspended.

So don't buy or incentivize reviews.

What you should do is ask every customer, make it easy with a review link and just let them leave an honest review. There's an awesome free tool that will generate a short review link and QR code for asking for Google reviews. So save this post and let me know if you want a link to that tool.