# Google reviews and reputation

> Google reviews and reputation at ellul.ai: £75 a month, a fixed price agreed in writing before work starts, never charged by the hour. A business with good work and too few reviews to show it.

- Price: £75 a month (monthly)
- Time: Monthly, rolling
- Page: https://ellul.ai/services/reviews-reputation

## What is included
- Review requests set up to go to every customer after a job
- Every new Google review answered within two working days
- Reviews that break Google's rules flagged to Google to decide
- Monthly report of new reviews, rating and replies

## What other providers charge
Other providers publish a median of £72.75 across 4 comparable prices (middle half £65.63 to £107.25). Every price with its source: https://ellul.ai/services/reviews-reputation/readings.json

## How many people are asking for it
211 posts on Reddit asked to hire someone for Google reviews and reputation between November 2025 and November 2026, 119 of them in the last 90 days, most on r/GoogleMyBusiness, r/freelance_forhire, r/gohighlevel.

## Paid separately, at cost
- Any review-request software or text message fees, paid to the provider

## What the buyer supplies
- Owner or manager access to your Google Business Profile
- Your customer list or booking system, so a request goes after each job
- How you want complaints and refund requests answered

## What the price does not cover
- One location; each further location has its own fee
- Google decides whether a flagged review comes down
- No number of new reviews or rating can be promised

## Rules that apply
- Since 6 April 2025 the UK's Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 bans fake consumer reviews, reviews that conceal they were incentivised, and hiding negative reviews while publishing positive ones. Source: [Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, Schedule 20, paragraph 13](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/schedule/20)
- Google's review policy bans offering incentives such as payment, discounts or free goods for reviews, and discouraging negative reviews or selectively asking customers for positive ones. Source: [Google Maps user contributed content policy: Fake engagement](https://support.google.com/contributionpolicy/answer/7400114)

## A cheaper way to do it
- Google gives each Business Profile its own link and QR code for requesting reviews, which the owner can send by email, WhatsApp or a Facebook post, or print for the shop. Source: [Google Business Profile Help: Create a Google link or QR code to request reviews](https://support.google.com/business/answer/16816815)

Get a written fixed quote: https://ellul.ai/services/reviews-reputation#quote