THE VERIFIED

Sofia Kaur · 3 February 2026

Cosmetic clinics: the trust signals patients actually check in 2026

Naomi Ashford · 3 April 2026

Verified vs unverified review sites: a buyer's field guide

Priya Ramanathan · 29 December 2025

Building a healthy public business profile that compounds for years

Amelia Whitfield · 28 June 2026

The independent shop reputation playbook: seven small moves that add up

Isabelle Dupont·28 April 2026·28

Review invitation email vs SMS: what wins by UK sector

Phishing Defence

Protect yourself from online scams: 12 patterns and the counter-move for each

Amelia Whitfield·27 March 2026·13

Legal & Professional

Solicitor reviews under SRA guidance: what firms can and cannot do

Elena Marchetti·27 January 2026·35

Verified Reviews(2)

How verification actually works and why tiers matter.

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Verified Reviews

Verification tiers explained: from claim to receipt-linked proof

Not every 'verified' badge means the same thing. This deep-dive walks the five verification tiers on ScoreReview UK, what each one proves, and how buyers and businesses should read them.

Naomi Ashford·9 April 2026·11

Verified Reviews

Trust ledger methodology: how we anchor review evidence

Naomi Ashford·26 March 2026·49

Trust & Safety(7)

Fake-review detection, moderation and disputes.

Trust & Safety — latest

8 min

How to spot fake reviews: a practical detection checklist

5 March 2026

10 min

Verified vs unverified review sites: a buyer's field guide

Responding to negative reviews: a UK operator's 2026 guide

22 April 2026

10 min

Detecting AI-generated reviews in 2026: what still works, what does not

19 February 2026

7 min

Amelia Whitfield·27 March 2026·13

How to avoid review sites that publish fake reviews

18 February 2026

Phishing Defence(2)

Read links like a security engineer.

Phishing Defence

Protect yourself from online scams: 12 patterns and the counter-move for each

Scams follow patterns. Learn the 12 you will actually meet — fake review inducements, marketplace baits, refund traps — and the exact counter-move for each.

Phishing Defence

How to avoid phishing: read a link like a security engineer

Isabelle Dupont · 20 March 2026

SEO(7)

Reviews as the strongest organic signal for service businesses.

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Amelia Whitfield·9 February 2026·20

How authentic reviews build a healthy business profile that ranks on Google

Authentic, verified reviews are now one of the strongest organic signals a service business can build. Here is the long-term play.

Chloe Nakamura·6 March 2026·45

Local SEO in 2026: the practical playbook for UK service businesses

Chloe Nakamura·6 January 2026·5

Review schema and rich results: a practical implementation guide

Chloe Nakamura·26 April 2026·40

Review schema and rich results: the 2026 UK compliance guide

Isabelle Dupont·24 April 2026·6

Local SEO and reviews: what actually moves rankings in 2026

Marketing(4)

Content, email and social — grown around a verified review base.

Marketing — latest

5 min

Diminishing returns: why doubling marketing spend rarely doubles revenue

24 June 2026

10 min

Promoting offline shops and high-street businesses online

14 January 2026

5 min

Reviews vs ads: where a UK small business should put the next £500

1 July 2026

12 min

Organic online promotion for UK service businesses in 2026

1 February 2026

Growth(3)

Turning verified feedback into pipeline.

Inside Growth

Priya Ramanathan·29 December 2025·37

Building a healthy public business profile that compounds for years

A healthy public review profile is the single most defensible asset a service business can build online. Here is the multi-year compounding plan.

Priya Ramanathan·20 March 2026·21

Review invitation timing: when to ask, how often, and why it matters

The single biggest lever on review submission rate is not the copy — it is the clock. Here is what 4 million invitations tell us about timing.

Grace Adeyemi · 13 March 2026

Responding to negative reviews: a script that converts complainers into customers

Consumer Rights(4)

UK DMCC, CMA, FTC and GDPR — what changed and what to do.

Elena Marchetti·8 April 2026·21

CMA 2025 guidance for review platforms: the six requirements

The CMA's 2025 compliance assessment set out six baseline expectations for every UK review platform. Here they are, with what each one looks like in practice.

Grace Adeyemi · 15 April 2026

DMCC Act 2024: what changed for UK review platforms and businesses

Chloe Nakamura · 13 February 2026

DMCC Act 2024 one year in: enforcement patterns emerging

Sofia Kaur · 1 April 2026

GDPR and review data: how long should a platform keep it?

AI & Reviews(2)

AI in moderation, replies and sentiment — done responsibly.

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AI & Reviews

AI-assisted review replies that do not sound like AI

AI can draft a reply in three seconds. The problem is every buyer can now spot the tell. Here is how to use AI without publishing AI-shaped words.

Chloe Nakamura·24 March 2026·46

AI & Reviews

Sentiment analysis on reviews: what it actually tells you

Naomi Ashford·17 March 2026·19

Hospitality(3)

Hotels, restaurants and short-lets — reputation at scale.

Hospitality — latest

7 min

Hospitality

Restaurant reputation recovery after a bad month

Restaurant review strategy UK: what the best operators do in 2026

2 May 2026

8 min

Hospitality

Hotel review invitation playbook: the checkout-to-review flow

10 March 2026

Trades(3)

Plumbers, electricians, roofers, gardeners.

Inside Trades

Trades

Trades reviews UK: the plumber and electrician playbook 2026

A UK playbook for trades reviews for plumbers and electricians: SMS timing, job-reference invitations, photo prompts, and the local ranking loop that keeps the phone ringing.

Naomi Ashford·4 May 2026·33

Trades

Plumber and electrician reviews that actually book jobs

Trades reviews compete for high-intent local searches. The right five reviews outrank fifty generic ones. Here is how to build them.

Elena Marchetti·24 February 2026·39

Trades

Roofing scams: the six warning signs UK homeowners should never ignore

Harriet Osei · 17 February 2026

Clinics & Healthcare(3)

Regulated care and cosmetic clinics.

Rania El-Sayed·6 May 2026·21

Dental clinic reviews UK: a compliance-first 2026 guide

A UK guide to dental clinic reviews under CQC and GDC context: what you can and cannot ask, tier-4 verification, and the reply patterns that stay on the right side of policy.

Sofia Kaur · 3 February 2026

Cosmetic clinics: the trust signals patients actually check in 2026

Sofia Kaur · 10 February 2026

Dental clinic reviews: GDC compliance and verified feedback

Legal & Professional(1)

Solicitors, accountants, advisers — regulated review use.

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Legal & Professional

Solicitor reviews under SRA guidance: what firms can and cannot do

Law firms sit inside SRA transparency and marketing rules. Verified reviews are explicitly encouraged — as long as the invitation flow and reply policy respect client confidentiality.

Elena Marchetti·27 January 2026·35

Retail & Ecommerce(3)

High-street shops and online stores.

Retail & Ecommerce — latest

12 min

Ecommerce verified reviews: what UK 2026 uplift data shows

8 May 2026

6 min

High-street shops: the counter-to-Google review flow

20 January 2026

6 min

Chloe Nakamura·6 January 2026·25

Ecommerce: how a verified badge at checkout lifts conversion 9%

13 January 2026

Case Studies(2)

Real customers, real numbers.

Inside Case Studies

Case Studies

Case study: how a Manchester café went from 3.9 to 4.7 in one quarter

A 12-seat independent café ran the ScoreReview UK small-business playbook for 90 days. Rating up 0.8 stars, footfall up 34%. Here is the exact flow.

Case Studies

Case study: a family law firm's verified review programme after 12 months

A five-partner family law firm rolled out verified reviews with post-closure invitations. 12-month numbers: 84 reviews, 4.9 average, 22% shorter enquiry-to-instruction cycle.

Sofia Kaur·23 December 2025·42

Product Updates(1)

What's new on ScoreReview UK.

Research & Data(14)

Original research from our data set.

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Naomi Ashford·30 April 2026·7

Photo reviews and conversion: what UK data shows for 2026

A UK data-led look at photo reviews and conversion: how much customer images lift click-to-buy, which sectors benefit most, and the prompts that produce useful photos.

Rania El-Sayed·3 July 2026·6

Regulated and mandatory-service businesses: reviews as the trust bridge

Amelia Whitfield·28 June 2026·20

The independent shop reputation playbook: seven small moves that add up

Isabelle Dupont·28 April 2026·28

Review invitation email vs SMS: what wins by UK sector

Isabelle Dupont·27 February 2026·13

Consumer psychology of trust: what actually moves a buyer