How Do You Handle Spammy One-Star Reviews in iTunes?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today's question comes from David, who has a question about dealing with one-star iTunes ratings and reviews for his podcast. How do you handle poor reviews? What happens if those one-star ratings come from spam or online trolls? How do you deal with that negativity against your podcast? David's website is at http://www.daviddifran.co/. Do you have a question about dealing with spammy one-star reviews for your podcast? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:05.0	AskPath.com.
0:10.6	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:11.8	Pathlin here and welcome to episode 759 of Ask Pat.
0:15.1	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.7	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.5	All right.
0:20.7	Now, here's today's question from David.
0:23.6	Hey, Pat.
0:24.4	How are you?
0:24.9	My name is David Franco from the Ask David podcast.
0:28.7	I actually just launched that podcast a few days ago, so it's new to me.
0:33.0	However, I do have a few hundred listeners already, mainly because of my YouTube channel and my social
0:38.6	media presence of which I'm very thankful for.
0:41.1	However, there seems to be a handful of people who feel the need to leave one-star ratings
0:45.8	on iTunes, which definitely annoys me considering how much work I've put into this podcast.
0:51.1	So my question to you is, how do you deal with these one-star ratings, especially when you
0:56.7	have a good feeling that these people are not even listening to the podcast to begin with.
1:01.9	Thanks and keep it a great work. Appreciate it.
1:06.1	Hey, David, thank you so much for the question. I really appreciate it. I know exactly how you feel.
1:10.6	It's just, it's just not cool, right? I mean, just recently on Smart Passive Income podcast, I've had randomly, you know, the comments and the ratings and reviews have been great, and I've been stuck at 21 one-star reviews over the last like three years.
1:27.6	That hasn't changed for a while.
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