Your Google review link opens straight onto the box where a customer picks the stars. LeadGenie’s free Google review link generator builds it from your Place ID, a Google Maps link or a review link you already have, then makes a QR code to print. It suits any business on Google, and nothing you paste leaves your browser.
A Place ID is Google’s code for one business at one address. Paste one, or a link with one in it, and the page tells you what it found, so you never print a link that opens the wrong listing.
ChIJ followed by about twenty-three letters and numbers. A review link has writereview?placeid= or g.page/r/ in it. A Maps link is whatever is in your browser’s address bar with your listing open. Your link and QR code appear here once you press Make the link. If the page can’t run its script, the table below shows what each kind of paste turns into.
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Open it on a phone that isn’t signed in as you, such as a partner’s or a private window. You should see five empty stars with your business name above them. If the name or address is old or slightly different, the Place ID belongs to a duplicate listing, and reviews left there won’t show on your real one.
Don’t post a test review. Opening the box is enough. Test it again every few months and before any reprint, because Google says Place IDs can change, usually after a move or a merge.
Change the words in square brackets and send it from your own email, the same day, to every customer rather than only the ones you think were happy. Offer nothing in return for the review.
You get https://search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid= followed by your ID, which opens straight onto the stars. If the ID belongs to an old or duplicate listing, the link still works and sends every review to the wrong place. Check the name and address on someone else’s phone before you print it.
Google’s own link: g.page/r/…
That’s the link from the Ask for reviews button on your own profile. The page gives it back unchanged, adds /review if it’s missing, and makes the QR code.
Some Maps links carry the Place ID, and you get the direct link. Most carry a different code, so the page can only link to your listing. That’s one tap further: the customer taps Reviews, then Write a review. The page tells you which one you got.
A share link: maps.app.goo.gl
Without this page: take https://search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid= and put your Place ID straight after the equals sign. That’s the link. Everything here happens in your browser tab, so nothing you paste is sent, stored or seen by us. Privacy
The link gets a willing customer to your review box. Get Found, A$29 a month with no set-up fee, handles the rest of the routine: one-tap review requests by link, QR code or email, an email the moment a review lands with a reply drafted for you to approve, QR codes that count their scans, and your live rating on your own website.
Before you print the QR code, check what customers will see when it opens. Wrong hours, old photos or an unanswered complaint on your Google profile undo the work the link does.
Prices ex GST. No email is asked for on this page, and the link and QR code are yours to keep.
Most businesses don’t have a link problem. They have an asking problem. The left column costs nothing and does most of the job. The right column is what Get Found adds, and none of it makes a customer more likely to review you: it shows you what happened after you asked.
Test it first. Open it on a phone that isn’t signed in as you and check the name and address above the stars. Test again every few months, and before any reprint.
Ask on the day, in person. Hand over the QR code on the invoice or docket while the job is in front of them. Their own phone is usually signed in to Google, and you’re there if it asks.
Put it where you already write. Invoices, quotes, your email signature and the thank-you email. Print the QR code at least 2 cm across, and make one link per location.
Ask everyone, in the same words. Asking only the customers you think were happy is called review gating, and Google’s policy doesn’t allow it. The odd three-star review makes the fives believable.
Offer nothing for it. No discount, prize draw or gift card. Google’s policy doesn’t allow incentives for reviews, and the ACCC treats incentivised reviews passed off as ordinary ones as potentially misleading.
QR codes that count their scans, so you can see which van, invoice or site brings reviews in. A free link can’t do that.
A drafted reply for every review, in your tone, for you to approve, change or bin. Nothing is posted without you.
Your live Google rating on your own website, and help keeping your Google profile right: hours, services and photos.
It doesn’t ask for you. On Get Found you send each request. From Starter, the request email goes by itself when a job is marked done. Requests by text start on Growth, A$499 a month.
If you do the left column and nothing else, the link will do its job. The example below shows what Get Found changes in a month, and what it doesn’t.
Example business: 40 jobs a month, every customer asked, one in five leaving a review. The review count is the same in both columns on purpose. What A$29 buys is time and visibility, not reviews.
An example, not a claim. The one in five and the minutes are our estimates of ordinary habits, and yours will differ. The table leaves out any rise in reviews from Get Found, because we can’t show one. Prices ex GST.
Two plans, depending on who sends the request, and a free next step if you’re not ready.
QR codes that count their scans, an email the moment a review lands, a drafted reply for each one that you approve, review request emails you send in one tap, your live rating on your own website and help keeping your Google profile right. You still do the asking. No set-up fee, no phone number, live in 3 to 5 business days.
Marking a job done sends the review request email by itself, so nobody has to remember. It sits inside an AI assistant that answers your web chat, Facebook, Instagram and email. A$199 a month plus a one-time A$999 set-up. Requests by text start on Growth, A$499 a month.
Our free Google review calculator shows how many five-star reviews it takes to reach the rating you want. No email, no card.
Get Found (A$29), Get Organised (A$59), Get Connected (A$89) and Starter (A$199) have no phone number and send no texts, so their alerts and review requests go by email. Growth (A$499) and Pro (from A$799) include an Australian mobile number, so requests can go by text. Smart Tools have no set-up fee. AI plan set-up is A$999 on Starter, A$1,999 on Growth and from A$2,499 on Pro. Monthly prices are ex GST and locked in for your first 12 months. Month to month, no lock-in, 30 days’ notice to cancel. Full pricing
Yes. Search your business name on Google while signed in to the account that manages your profile. The owner panel has a button called Ask for reviews (on some accounts, Get more reviews), and it gives you a short link to the same review box. Use this page when you can’t find that button, someone else set up the profile, you look after several locations, or you want a print-ready QR code now.
It’s free, and nothing reaches us. The page builds the link and the QR code inside your browser tab, with no form and no email field. Close the tab and it’s gone. That’s also why it can’t search by business name or read a maps.app.goo.gl share link: both would mean sending what you typed to Google. Privacy
Paste your Place ID, Maps link or review link above and press Make the link. Download the QR code as a PNG for screens or an SVG for print. Print it at least 2 cm across, dark on white, with the white border left on, and scan it from two phones before you order anything. With more than one location, make one code per address and put the suburb in the file name.
No. Asking only the customers you expect to be positive, or steering unhappy ones somewhere else first, is called review gating, and Google’s policy doesn’t allow it. Reviews can be removed for it. Ask everyone, in the same words, at the same point in the job. If a customer had a problem, ring them and sort it out, but don’t leave them off the list.
No. Google’s policy doesn’t allow offering anything in exchange for a review: money, discounts, free products or entry into a draw, even for “any honest review”. Reviews Google finds were incentivised can be removed. In Australia, the ACCC treats incentivised reviews presented as ordinary customer opinion as potentially misleading. Ask, make it easy and offer nothing.
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