Short answer
Local search is where a event venue gets found, and Google names review count and review score as ranking inputs for local results. Reputation Medics files policy-violating reviews for businesses in 141 metro areas across 51 states, remotely, at $397 per Google review and $697 per Yelp review. Pay upfront. If the specific item is not removed within 30 days, the removal fee is automatically refunded.
Google publishes three factors for local results and names review count and review score among the prominence inputs. The quoted line under each heading is Google's wording. The second line is what it means for a event venue sitting on a review that breaks policy.
How well a local Business Profile matches what someone searched for.
Category, services and profile detail carry this one. A review never makes a profile more relevant, but review text does get read by people comparing two profiles that match equally well.
How far each possible search result is from the location term used in a search.
Nothing about a review changes distance. This is why a shop can rank in the map pack and still lose the call to the business one rating point higher.
How well known a business is, which Google states includes review count and review score along with links, articles and directories.
This is the factor a policy-violating review touches. A fake one-star sits in the same score Google reads as prominence, and it sits there until the platform removes it.
Google publishes three factors for local results: relevance, distance and prominence. Review count and review score sit inside prominence, alongside links and mentions elsewhere on the web. Relevance and distance are set by the profile and the searcher's location. Prominence is the part a fake or policy-violating review drags on, and the only fix is getting that review off the listing.
No one can promise that, and we do not. Google decides its own results the same way it decides its own removals. What removal changes is what a searcher sees in the map pack and on the profile next to your name. Google, Yelp, and the sites we file with make the final removal decision. What we guarantee is the automatic refund of the removal fee if the item stays up past 30 days.
Yes. Filing is handled remotely, so location does not change the price or the process. The list below covers 141 metro areas across 51 states, including Phoenix, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Chicago. A business outside those metros is filed exactly the same way.
One price everywhere: $397 per Google review, $697 per Yelp review, $497 per harmful link on another site. No retainer and no travel charge. Pay upfront. If the specific item is not removed within 30 days, the removal fee is automatically refunded.
On the wedding or large event job type, a $33,000 job at a 100% gross margin is $33,000 of gross profit. That is one job, multiplied out from the cited benchmarks at the bottom of this page. Searchers who pick the profile above yours never appear in any report you can read.
Gross profit is the job value multiplied by the gross margin in the same row. Nothing is projected and no lost-revenue total is claimed. Every job value, close rate and margin below is cited in the sources at the end of this page.
| Job type | Job value | Gross margin | Gross profit per job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Room night at ADR | $159 | 100% | $159 |
| Revenue per available room | $100 | 100% | $100 |
| Wedding or large event | $33,000 | 100% | $33,000 |
Which reviews qualify for this trade, what filing involves, and the job-type economics behind the numbers above.
Capture the review, match it to one Google policy ground, gather proof, file, escalate a decline, document the outcome.
Pick the platform and the number of reviews and see the total, including the pay after removal option.
A real filing start to finish, with the dates and the redacted evidence, is on the Google review removal case study. Common questions are answered on the removal FAQ.
141 metro areas across 51 states, listed as a event venue would search them. Filing happens remotely, so the city changes nothing about the price, the process, or the 30-day refund window. There is no office in these cities and we do not claim one.
Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville
Anchorage, Juneau
Phoenix, Tucson, Mesa, Scottsdale
Little Rock, Fayetteville
Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Fresno, Riverside, Oakland
Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins
Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven
Wilmington, Dover
Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee, Naples
Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta
Honolulu
Boise
Chicago, Springfield, Naperville
Indianapolis, Fort Wayne
Des Moines, Cedar Rapids
Wichita, Topeka, Overland Park
Louisville, Lexington, Frankfort
New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport
Portland, Augusta
Baltimore, Annapolis
Boston, Worcester, Springfield
Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing
Minneapolis, Saint Paul
Jackson, Gulfport
Kansas City, St. Louis, Jefferson City
Billings, Helena
Omaha, Lincoln
Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City
Manchester, Concord
Newark, Jersey City, Trenton
Albuquerque, Santa Fe
New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany
Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham
Fargo, Bismarck
Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati
Oklahoma City, Tulsa
Portland, Salem, Eugene
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg
Providence
Charleston, Columbia, Greenville
Sioux Falls, Pierre
Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga
Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, Corpus Christi, Plano
Salt Lake City, Provo
Burlington, Montpelier
Virginia Beach, Richmond, Arlington
Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Olympia
Washington
Charleston
Milwaukee, Madison
Cheyenne
You pay the removal fee upfront so we can begin work. If the specific item is not removed within 30 days, we automatically refund that removal fee to your original payment method. Google, Yelp, and other third-party sites make the final removal decision.
Google, Yelp, and the sites we file with make the final removal decision. What we guarantee is the automatic refund of the removal fee if the item stays up past 30 days.
Google Business Profile Help. Google states local results are ranked on relevance, distance and prominence, and names review count and review score among the prominence inputs.
Google. The published policies a review has to breach before Google will act on it.
Google Business Profile Help. The channel every Google filing goes through, including ours.
CoStar / STR (2025). Average daily rate of $158.67, RevPAR of $99.94, and 63.0% occupancy. Limitation: roughly 86,000 properties self-report to STR, and a national average hides wide variance by chain scale and market. STR publishes no revenue-per-booking figure.
2025 Real Weddings Study
The Knot (2025). Average total wedding cost of $33,000 for couples married in 2024 and about $284 per guest. Limitation: a self-selected online survey of roughly 17,000 couples on one platform, and the figure is total wedding spend rather than a venue-only line item.
Missing data note for venues, golf, charters, and casinos
Reputation Medics editorial note (2026). No publisher prints an average revenue per booking for hotels, a venue-only rental average, a current per-round revenue figure for golf courses, a national charter-boat price, or a casino revenue-per-visit figure. The National Golf Foundation's current per-round economics sit in a members-only report, and the American Gaming Association publishes total gaming revenue without a per-visit denominator. Those job types are left out rather than derived.
Missing margin data note for fee-for-service practices
Reputation Medics editorial note (2026). No association publishes a gross or operating margin for dental practices, med spas, clinics, senior living, law firms, advisory firms, brokerages, or hotels. The ADA publishes dentist net income, not a margin; AmSpa publishes revenue per med spa, not a margin; AICPA's margin figure sits behind its paid MAP survey. So the fee or room rate on this page is treated as revenue at 100%, not as profit. Read the revenue figures as lost billings, not lost take-home.
BrightLocal (2024). Star rating and review sentiment vs. click-through from search and maps. Used for the click-through drag curve.
Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue
Harvard Business School · Michael Luca. Peer-reviewed link between review sentiment and revenue. Used for the sentiment drag curve.
