Introduction to Templated Review Response | Yext Hitchhikers Platform

What You’ll Learn

In this section, you will learn:

• The components of an effective review response
• Introduction to Yext’s Templated Review Response functionality

The Components of an Effective Review Response

An effective review response should have four parts: A greeting, value statement, sentiment keyword, and closing.

Greeting: A friendly opening that mentions the customer’s name or username.

Value Statement: This is an opportunity to make a statement that discusses your brand in a positive light and affirms your values. State the experience that your brand strives to deliver. For example: “At [business name], we always strive to provide great customer service.”

Sentiment Keyword: This is part of what makes a response feel personal. Apologize when there’s a need, and echo back their emotional sentiment. (i.e., “We’re so delighted that…”; “We’re so sorry that X happened, and we aim to fix it with Y.”) Affirm the customer’s experience, acknowledging the problem when you’re responding to a negative review. When engaging with a positive review, be sure to thank the customer for their support.

Closing: A polite and personal sign off. Bonus points for inviting them back to your business again — either to show them a better experience, or to continue more of the excellent service they commended you for!

Introduction to Yext’s Templated Review Response Functionality

Combining these four components into traditional templated review response would be impossible, but manually responding to individual reviews is often not scalable for organizations. That’s why Yext created Templated Review Response.

Templated Review Response leverages Sentiment Analysis to easily create dynamic, on-brand review responses while following Yext’s best practices for building an effective response.

Users create templates for each of the core components of an effective review response (Greeting, Value Statement, Sentiment Keyword, Closing) and Templated Review Response helps to dynamically create the response based on Sentiment Score and Keywords in the review. As you can see above, Keywords and Modifiers from Sentiment Analysis can be pulled directly into the response.