Review Velocity
The pace and consistency of new reviews over time — a steady trickle of fresh reviews beats a one-time pile.
Definition
Review velocity is how quickly and how regularly new reviews show up on your profiles. Google and homeowners both pay attention to recent, ongoing activity, not just your lifetime total.
In depth
The pace of your online reviews — say a handful every week — matters more than the total sitting on your profile. Search engines treat a steady stream as a sign your business is active and well-liked right now, and they tend to surface profiles that keep earning fresh feedback. A profile that got forty reviews two years ago and nothing since looks stale by comparison.
For a residential contractor, this matters because homeowners check dates. Before anyone calls you, they scan your most recent customer reviews to see if the praise still holds — a five-star average means little if the newest review is from 2022. That recent feedback is also some of the strongest social proof you have: it tells a nervous homeowner that the crew doing your work today is the same one earning the stars.
The common mistake is the one-time blitz: emailing every past client at once, landing thirty reviews in a week, then going quiet. The burst looks unnatural and the momentum dies. We build review velocity into the job itself — asking at the right moment after every completed project — so reviews arrive at a natural, believable pace, month after month.
Worked example
A remodeler asks for a review at the end of every job and lands roughly four a month all year, instead of begging past clients for forty reviews in one frantic week before going silent.
Reviews & Social Proof
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