We have been researching the best sites to use for customer reviews that Google pulls and adds to the businesses LBC listing. Methods: · We chose the top ten cities in the U.S. by population, but omitted any city that was already represented by another in the same state. (e.g. We omitted San Antonio and Dallas because Texas was already represented by Houston). · This left us with the following 10 cities: o New York, NY o Los Angeles, CA o Chicago, IL o Houston, TX o Phoenix, AZ o Philadelphia, PA o Detroit, MI o Jacksonville, FL o Indianapolis, IN o Columbus, OH · In each city, we searched Google Maps for “Pizza.†· We selected the three restaurants on the first page of search results with the most reviews. · We went through these reviews for each of the 30 selected restaurants in the 10 selected cities and noted what site they were drawn from. · We collected data on 3,398 reviews, which is our sample size for this article. For restaurants alone we found over 70 sites that were general or restaurant niche review sites. Out of the 3398 reviews total, here were the top 5: 1. City Search 2. Trip Advisor 3. Zagat 4. Google Direct Reviews 5. Urban Spoon Here is the remaining list of 65 sites also used by Google
its my opinion.. From my experience to get first in buisness listing just copy the link and send to your friends.. Also post that link in your website ''MY LOCATION''.. Upon being viewd by many poeple u can see improvement in ranking of buisness listings.. If possible ask some of your frnds to write reviews from different IP's