The next topic we would like to mention is our expert moderation. Rating Systems’ team monitors and manages your products or services Ratings & Reviews and/or Questions and Answers to ensure perfect quality and accuracy. Moderation is a content quality assurance process that ensures appropriate standards, relevance, removes unsuitable or offensive content.
For example – Let’s say a customer posts a negative review about your product or service. If the entire review is based on abusive content or completely irrelevant to subject, our support will make sure that this review does not get published. But, if the review is relevant, and it just seems to be an unhappy customer, we will try to contact the customer first, to find out what their reason might have been for such a review. Then, if it seems to be an actually product issue, we will contact your company personally, sharing this information with you and try to resolve and see what point of view the customer is coming from.
Let’s face it. Negative reviews are somewhat important to the product. Nothing is ever perfect. You aren’t going to purchase an item that has ONLY positive reviews. Seems a little “fishy”, sort to speak. When others are talking about your brand online, we’ll make sure it’s in the best possible light. As mentioned before, these ‘posts’ might be returned to the author with an attached message explaining the reason for return or not posting.
The most important part is; you maintain complete ownership of the data that can be sent to you nightly. All of the posts are archived and are available to you anytime at the end of the day. You own all your rating & review and Question and Answer content. You are always in control. Take advantage of this great opportunity today.
Another great feature that we would like to discuss is multi-dimensional ratings. In multi-dimensional ratings, you are allowed to have more than one 'criteria'. The criterias are based on how you wish to rate your product or service that you provide. For example, here are some most common used criteria that Rating System provides;
- Quality
- Service
- Value
- Reliability
Remember, the list goes on. You may create any type of dimensional label, and chose from many of our dimension types. All these criterias that we provide are “weighted”. Think of it this way. Take the 2 criterias - ‘quality’ and ‘features’. To some business or individual, quality has is more important than value, and visa versa. Let’s use the iPad 2 for example. Its’ quality is superb, but there are many features that are missing for its value of money, so it seems that many believe. Flash is not integrated with Apple, thus making is somewhat of a downfall for certain customers. Of course, there are many other features it is missing. This was just one of them. So, if a person were to rate the quality for 5 out of 5 and value for features is 1 out of 5, the average rating would be a 3. But, what if this criteria were weighted differently? Let’s say instead of a 50/50% weigh, a 75/25% weigh. After being rating a 5 and a 1, the rating would still be a 4. Here’s a simple formula;
0.25 + 0.75 = 1.00
(0.25 x 1) + (0.75 x 5) =
= 0.25 + 3.75 = 4
As you assign different weight for different criteria, you then can achieve a balanced average rating. It is very useful for certain products and services that many businesses today offer and provide.
Shopping carts are not just easy and reliable ways to shop online, it is also a tool used to increase your business commerce for yourself! The three available prebuilt integration shopping cart packages that Rating System offers for our clients include the following; X-Cart, Sitefinity and Miva Merchant.
Under our subscription, we will provide a special code that we generate to our customers, making it very easy to use and apply. Some of our current clients that use X-Cart are Pet-Super-Store. Comedy World has been integrated with Sitefinity, and Miva Merchant is very recent, but integration is available upon request.
These packages that we offer to our clients are mainly for paid users, included in our Platinum and Business plan. Why? SEO integration and rich snippets are all key factors involving shopping cart integration. If you do not have any shopping carts, we can still integrate it with the most common languages; PHP, Java, etc. The best part.. It’s all free! Take advantage of this great opportunity and sign up or upgrade or plan if you have to.
Please, feel free to contact us if you have any further questions about shopping cart integration, how it works, or if you’d like us to construct a package deal for you.
Let’s get one good proven fact here – people usually never trust advertising, definitely not as much as they would trust recommendations from friends and consumer opinions shared and posted online.
Doing some research while finding reports and data, which is to be said surveying more than 30,000 Internet responders in over 50 countries, more than 90% of consumers say they would rather trust recommendations from family and friends above any other type of advertising – an increase of over 15% since about 2007.
The consumers who share their reviews online rank as the 2nd most trusted source, with 70% of global consumers surveyed online stating they trust the posts on this podium, an increase of over 16% in 5 years.
3rd to 5th ranking is editorial content (60%), trusted websites (55%), and emails (45%), in the perspective range. Regular forms of advertising consisting of media such as TV, radio, and have seen a huge drop, nearly 25% since about 2009.
Stating all this, it’s fair to say that friend-to-friend shared is best for business commerce. For example, you’re not going to out and buy something you are planning on paying for and the using it to find it didn’t suffice your needs. Therefore, these important elements such as ratings, reviews and customer feedback implement on people decisions and final choices.
It’s very simple. People want to be told the truth, and nothing but the truth. They want their communication and interaction with you to be valued through honest general responses. They want the acknowledgement that what they have to say what matters.
Finally, in social business commerce, is not just a matter of exploit some channels, or somewhat maintaining a very high level of engagement, but a service or product that’s worth sharing to other people about. If you do, so will the people. And, if all these reports and stories are accurate and factitious, then Rating System can help you boost your business commerce in certain ways, increase sales and page value through SEO integration, while your product or service is being bought or used.
(Reference: http://socialcommercetoday.com)
The search engine Google uses a large amount of methods to figure out which pages are displayed first (highest) in the results. Their ways are secret, but there are a few things you can do to increase your position in the rankings. The term for this is Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which Rating System provides for you on our paid plan.
Unfortunately, we cannot increase traffic using back-links, that’s not how Rating System works. The way Google notices and advances websites through their rankings and page numbers is through traffic, ‘tags’ and ‘keywords’, as well as website presentation. For example, let’s say you are trying to offer and sell a product to a customer, a brand new Infiniti M37. When the website is first created, Google won’t be noticing your website due to the lack of traffic and website presentation. How can we change that?
Simple. Once you’ve finished customizing your page and products are ready to sell, by using a Rate/Review box, it gives your product a chance to be; discussed, rated, reviewed and possibly even shared. This includes the ‘tags’ and ‘keywords’ mentioned above. As people rate and review and mention ‘Infiniti’ or ‘M37’, Google recognizes this. It notices that your recent created or updated website has been seeing; more traffic, more product discussions, possibly even more product purchases. Then, Google sees that the website is active, it receives good traffic, its products are reviewed and bought, and website has great presentation, why not bump them up to the first page on search results?
SEO is one of the many features that Rating-System provides. Stay tuned for next blog as we talk about ‘Follow Up Marketing E-mails.