Unfiltered
Reviews, on a profile you can check yourself.
Every review below is public on our Google Business Profile. We have not curated them, and we cannot delete them, which is rather the point of using Google rather than a testimonial slider we control.
Digital Handshake Media holds a 5-star rating from 8 reviews on its public Google Business Profile, from clients including a ceramic coating shop, a business funding firm and several local service operators. Every review below is on that profile, which we cannot edit or delete.
Omar and the Digital Handshake Media team are incredible!! I signed up for the free 14 day trial and was super impressed with how fast we saw leads coming in which we have already made money on with our initial investment. He is the real deal!! Very friendly, professional and knowledgeable person, I would highly recommend anyone to sign up with his agency if you can handle all the new business he will help generate with your shop. I own a ceramic coating business and already have most of my next month booked up! He promised results and I got more than I expected, keep up the good work DHM!!
Omar and the Digital Handshake team produce amazing results and I would highly recommend him to anyone looking to take their business to the next level, thank you Omar.
Soooooo much value for such a low cost. I'm like, are you sure you don't want more money? Lol 馃槅 love the software and all the awesome features.
Will recommend to any business we fund that needs new leads! Great results! Thank you!
Really knows how to take a business to the next level!
5 Stars
Two of these are ratings left without written text. We have shown them rather than quietly filtering them out, because a review page that only contains the eloquent ones is a curated review page.
Why we do not run a testimonial carousel
A quote on an agency website is unverifiable by design: no profile behind it, no date, no way to see the ones that were left out. If we are going to tell you that review recency and response rate are among the strongest signals in local search, and we do, on nearly every page, then pointing you at a live public profile is the only consistent thing to do.
We also do not buy, incentivise, gate or filter reviews for ourselves or for clients. Beyond violating Google’s policies, incentivised testimonials without disclosure engage the misleading-representation provisions of Canada’s Competition Act. It is not a close call.
What we tell clients about their own reviews
Since review signals are one of the strongest controllable inputs in local search, roughly 20% of local pack ranking by current survey estimates, up from 16% in 2023, how a business collects them is a strategy question rather than an admin one. Four rules, and they apply to us as much as to anyone we work with.
- Ask at the moment of highest satisfaction, built into job completion or discharge rather than left to whoever remembers. A fixed trigger produces steady flow.
- Steady beats big. Review recency now outweighs raw count, and roughly three in four consumers specifically look for reviews from the last three months. Fifty reviews in one week also looks manipulated to Google’s filters.
- Respond to every single one. Around 80% of consumers are more likely to use a business that responds to all reviews, and about 81% expect a reply within a week. Response text is indexed, which makes it one of the few remaining places relevance genuinely helps.
- Never gate, incentivise or filter. Screening for happy customers before asking is a policy violation and, in Canada, a Competition Act problem.
The full mechanics sit inside the 12-point checklist, and the underlying weights are sourced on the 2026 ranking factors page.
What a bad review is actually worth
Most owners treat a one-star review as damage to be minimised. It is more useful than that. A profile of nothing but five-star reviews reads as curated to experienced buyers, and consumers routinely report seeking out the critical reviews first to find out how a business behaves when something goes wrong. A measured, specific, non-defensive reply to a bad review is frequently the most persuasive text on a business’s entire profile.
The failure mode is not the review. It is the reply: arguing, disclosing customer details, or saying nothing at all. We help clients write responses that a prospective customer reading them six months later would find reasonable, which is the only audience that matters.
How this connects to everything else
Reviews are the clearest example of the thing this whole site keeps arguing: the parts of local search that move the needle are largely operational, not technical. We can correct your categories, clean your citations and fix your schema in a few weeks. Only you can ask a customer for a review at handover, every week, for a year. That is why the roadmap is explicit about what we need from you, and why the pricing page says plainly that we will not sell a plan we do not believe will work.
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