Importing Reviews

Over the past few days, we've listened closely to the community. The message was loud, clear and deeply felt: simply displaying your imported First Tutors reviews as a decorative badge while ignoring them in search rankings misses the point entirely. Forcing experienced educators to compete on a false starting line doesn't just feel unfair — it actively devalues the years of dedication, late-night prep, and glowing student feedback that built your reputation.

Your hard-earned legacy shouldn't vanish overnight. Disregarding a decade of verified excellence is a non-starter for any platform that claims to care about fairness and quality.

So, we are doing things differently. Today, we're making it official.

Every verifiable review you import from First Tutors (via Web Archive links or official data exports) will actively feed the TutorDex search algorithm.

Your past success will directly drive your future visibility. On TutorDex, you do not start from zero. You pick up exactly where you left off, with your legacy acting as a multiplier for your business.

And to the exceptional new tutors just starting out — we haven't forgotten you. A great marketplace requires both seasoned mastery and fresh energy. Our algorithm is built with dedicated discovery windows that ensure emerging talent gets a fair, high-visibility shot to build their own foundations. Every expert was once a beginner, and we are committed to launching your journey safely.

Your legacy. Your future. Finally, a platform that respects both — TutorDex.

We use a precision data-recovery method. Simply upload any Wayback Machine / Web Archive links that captured your historical First Tutors profile.

Our system automatically scans every snapshot you provide, cross-references the dates, and identifies the page displaying your highest lifetime review count and average rating. For example, if your best archived snapshot shows 57 reviews with a 4.8 average, that instantly becomes your initial, verified reputation on TutorDex.

Yes, as much as technically possible — and we've built a unique, algorithmic solution to help you recover them.

Because the Web Archive typically captures the first page of a profile, it usually saves the full text of your 5 most recent reviews. The text of older reviews sits on deeper pages that the archive may not have crawled.

However, we built a solution for this: if you upload multiple archive links from different years, our system automatically pieces them together like a puzzle. As older reviews rotated through your top 5 over the years, our algorithm captures them from the historical timeline. By combining snapshots, you can easily recover the full text of dozens of legacy reviews.

Note: even if the text of an older review wasn't captured by the archive, the numerical equity is never lost. Every single one of your 5-star ratings counts directly toward your search ranking volume. Your hard-earned digital legacy remains fully intact.

Absolutely. We've designed a Legacy Verification feature specifically for this. You can send a direct invitation to your historical First Tutors clients to join you on TutorDex.

When a past client writes a testimonial, it will automatically fill one of your textless review slots. This allows you to steadily rebuild a rich, text-heavy wall of testimonials without altering your originally verified baseline. To protect the integrity of your imported archive data, the text they write replaces the empty slot, but their new star rating will not alter your original locked historical average.

Our current priority is emergency data preservation and marketplace integrity for the displaced First Tutors community. We are actively consulting with you to design a fair policy for active platforms. Watch this space — or get in touch to share your view.