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Is this allowed?

Yes, and here's exactly why

The honest answer to the question every owner asks before they trust a review tool.

The short version

Yes, ReviewGrowth is allowed. Google's guidelines prohibit review gating, which means selectively asking only happy customers for public reviews while steering unhappy ones away. ReviewGrowth does notdo that. Everyone who uses your funnel is invited to leave a public review, and everyone is also offered a private way to reach you directly. That's the difference between gaming the system and simply asking more people, the right way.

What review gating actually is

Classic gating shows the Google link onlyto people who rate you highly, and quietly diverts low ratings into a private form so they never become public. It can inflate your rating artificially, which is exactly why it can get a listing penalized. Many cheap "review funnel" tools work this way by default.

This isn't our interpretation. Google's own prohibited and restricted content policy for Business Profiles states that businesses should not discourage or prohibit negative reviews, or selectively solicit positive ones. That is the exact line ReviewGrowth is built to stay on the right side of.

How ReviewGrowth is different

ReviewGrowth runs in Compliance Mode by default. When a customer taps a star:

A happy customer is taken straight to your public Google review page.
An unhappy customer is offered a private channel to reach you first, and is still welcome to leave a public review.
No one is hidden from Google. Nothing is filtered. There is no gating switch to flip.

Why this still grows your rating

Most happy customers simply never get around to leaving a review. ReviewGrowth fixes the volume problem honestly: by asking everyone, at the moment they're happiest, you get far more genuine 5-star reviews, enough that you never need to cheat. The unhappy feedback you catch privately is a bonus, a chance to fix a problem before it becomes a permanent 1-star.

Is this allowed?

Grow your rating the way Google actually allows

Sending only your happy customers to Google (that's “review gating”) can get your listing penalized. ReviewGrowth is built the safe way from the start.

!The old way: review gating
  • ✕Only happy customers are shown the Google link
  • ✕Unhappy ones are quietly hidden
  • ✕Against Google policy, so your listing can be penalized
The ReviewGrowth way: compliant
  • Everyone is invited to leave a public review
  • Everyone also gets a private channel to the owner
  • More genuine 5-star reviews, so you never need to cheat
Read exactly how we stay compliant

Our promise

We will never sell, package, advertise, or upsell review-gating, at any tier or any price. Compliance isn't a feature you buy. It's simply how ReviewGrowth works. If that ever changed, it wouldn't be ReviewGrowth anymore.

Grow your Google rating the way Google actually allows.

Set it up in about ten minutes, keep your listing safe, and watch the good reviews add up. No card to start, and if they don't come, you don't pay.

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