Your Google rating reflects who left a review. That is a different thing from how good your work is.
The mechanism is not complicated. Satisfied customers do not leave reviews unprompted. They paid the invoice, they are happy, they move on. Unhappy customers are significantly more motivated to find the form and write something.
Without a review request process, the rating is a biased sample. The unhappy minority is overrepresented. The satisfied majority leaves no record.
A business that asks every customer for a review after every job changes the composition of that sample. Satisfied customers, who needed prompting, now add their experience. The rating improves, not because the quality improved, but because the data collection improved.
This is verifiable. Businesses that implement a consistent review request process typically move their rating within 90 days without changing anything about the service itself. The work was always good. The record did not reflect it.
A 4.3 business and a 4.8 business in the same trade, in the same area, often deliver the same standard of work. One of them sends an automated message at the end of every job. The other does not.
Your rating is telling the market a story about your business. The question is whether it is an accurate one, or whether the satisfied majority is still invisible.
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