ResellerRatings vs. Trustpilot

ResellerRatings is a good tool for collecting ratings and quantifying how satisfied a user is with your website. It is relatively easy to implement and get setup and does have some pre-built widgets for adding reviews to your site. ResellerRatings does require a bit of training to get the hang of the administrative interface and it does require support staff to monitor, flag, and respond to reviews that are submitted (which can be a challenge depending on # of reviews and staffing levels).

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I believe that if you can, avoid *ever* creating a profile on any of these third-party review websites. Online reputation management can be expensive, tedious, and frustrating. Keep all your reviews on your own website, and skip the noise of third-party review platforms. You can use your social profiles (ie. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn) for verified testimonials if needed. From firsthand experience, Trustpilot will deliberately allow fake and malicious reviews, then ask you for hundreds of dollars a month just to reply or remove the spam content.

• Manually sending out review requests.
• Easy implementation.
• Responsive support team.

Incentivized

• Completing the review for the customer is a simple process which enables us to receive more feedback.
• The Trustpilot account management team is a true partner working with each department to help with adoption across the company.
• The Trustpilot development team is a trusted partner with our own internal development team, assisting them with implementation as well as integration with their API.

Incentivized

• Seller Ratings are available, but Product Reviews for your company shouldn't be part of a paid package.
• Private/Public Replies should allow URLS to be clickable for ease-of-access.
• The "Reports" feature could be explained in more depth.

Incentivized

• Removing inaccurate/faulty reviews. It's hard to talk to people about removing some inaccurate reviews.
• Product reviews should be visible on search engines too.
• Review requests email templates are not the best.

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It's expensive and customer service is not the best.

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ResellerRatings support is pretty easy to get ahold of, and we usually got response within 24 hours.

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I've rarely had issues and needed support. During the implementation phase we relied on their support heavily and they were very knowledgeable, responsive and helpful. Any questions I've had have been answered promptly by my account manager. They also have a great knowledgebase for self-service support.

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We use both Trustpilot and ResellerRatings, as they handle slightly different aspects of services (product versus service).

Incentivized

Selected Trustpilot because of superior integration with the website and Google SERPS. Again, my only complaint would be Trustpilot was relatively more expensive than the other technologies.

Incentivized

• ResellerRatings has had a positive impact on ROI by allowing us to quickly gather user ratings/reviews and integrate the aggregate review with Google's paid search ads (via star ratings showing in ads)
• ResellerRatings has also had a positive impact on our business by allowing us to collect reviews and display on our website without the need for internal development resources and IT work (which would have been very costly for us).
• One thing we had wanted to accomplish through the use of ResellerRatings was to display reviews on our website and provide that detail to Google in a consumable format which would result in star ratings showing in our organic search results. However, we were not able to accomplish this and Google never picked up our rating from the ResellerRating's widgets, so that was a bit of a letdown.

Incentivized

• [I believe that it has] tons of fake reviews from spammers & scammers
• [In my experience] Hundreds of hours and $ wasted
• [In my experience] Monthly unsolicited sales calls from Trustpilot
• [I believe that it] Tries to actively ruin your reputation online