Get a link for Google reviews

Between a willing customer and a published review there is one step almost everyone underestimates: finding where to write. The direct link removes it.

What this link does

A Google review link opens the review window attached to your profile immediately. Not the profile, not the search results: the window where you write.

The difference sounds small. It is not. A customer landing on your profile still has to scan it, spot the reviews section and find the button. Each of those micro-steps loses a share of the volunteers.

Finding your Place ID

The Place ID is the identifier Google assigns to your business. It is a string that generally starts with ChIJ.

Two ways to get it:

• The Place ID Finder, Google's public tool: search for your business and the identifier appears.
• Your own URLs: it shows up in the address of certain pages linked to your profile.

Where to use the link

Once generated, the link is reusable anywhere you ask for a review.

• In your request emails, on the main button. This is the most profitable use, covered in the dedicated guide.
• In an SMS, where space is short and a short link is essential.
• In a QR code in store, at the counter or on the receipt.
• In your email signature, discreet but permanent.
• On a card handed over at the end of the job.

What the link does not solve

It removes the access friction, not the writing friction. A customer who arrives at an empty window and does not know what to say closes the tab, and that loss is invisible in your statistics.

This is why Leadmia offers, as a second call to action in the email, a writing assistant that helps the customer put into words what they want to say.

Next

The link is a means, not a method. For the full method, when to ask, who to ask, how to follow up, see how to ask for Google reviews easily.