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Where To Find The Link To Leave A Google Review

Name: Where To Find The Link To Leave A Google Review
Uploaded: 2021-06-24T16:01:55+00:00
Duration: 1 min 37 s
Channel: Shaun Whynacht
Description: In this instructional video, Shaun Whynacht explains why Google reviews are essential for a business’s social proof and how to simplify the…

24 Jun 2021 · 2 min

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In this instructional video, Shaun Whynacht explains why Google reviews are essential for a business’s social proof and how to simplify the review‑gathering process by using a direct review link. He first emphasizes that customers typically have to search for a business on Google, navigate to the reviews tab, and click “Write a review,” which can be cumbersome. He then shows the step‑by‑step method to obtain a shareable review URL from the Google My Business (now Google Business Profile) dashboard: open the business listing, scroll to the Home section, click “Share review form,” and copy the generated URL. Shaun demonstrates that when the link is opened, it immediately displays the business’s location on a map and the review form, allowing customers to quickly select a star rating, write comments, and upload photos. Finally, he advises placing this link in emails, social media posts, or text messages to streamline the review collection process, thereby boosting the business’s online reputation.

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You know that reviews are really the bread and butter behind marketing your business, that whole social proof. And, you know, people are going to research you on Google to find out really how well your service is and what others have had experience with your business. So getting Google reviews, uh, isn't always the easiest thing to do. Now, you may have Googled your business just like you see here on the screen. There's our company right there, and you could click on the reviews here and Pop it up and you can click write a review. Now to explain that to somebody to go to Google, search for you, find that and all that kind of stuff, not easy to do. How about being able to send them right to this form so that they can leave a review, put it into an email, put it on social media, uh, whatever the case may be. Well, this is how you do it. First of all, you need to have Google My Business set up so that you have access to your Google listing. Once you do that, you're going to go into your listing in Google My Business. So you go right into it, and you're gonna scroll down on the home section here to the part where you see share review form, okay? So we click on that. It's gonna pop up, and it's going to give you an actual URL that you can now copy and put into an email link or any other text message or anything like that. So let's take a look at what happens when you go directly to that link. You punch it in. It's going to quickly bring up your location on the map and load in the review form so people can easily click 5 stars and write that review for your business, even upload a photo for that. So this is a great way to get your business seen and get that social proof that you absolutely deserve.