Google Review Link Generator

About the Google Review Link Generator

Paste the review link from your Google Business Profile — or your business’s Place ID — and get everything you need to ask customers for reviews: the link itself, a QR code as PNG or SVG, a print-ready PDF for a counter sign, a folding table tent or a sheet of ten business cards, and email, SMS and WhatsApp requests in a friendly, formal or short tone.

Everything follows Google’s rules for reviews: the messages invite every customer, whatever their experience, offer nothing in return and suggest no rating. Paste your own request or sign text into Check your own wording to find phrases those rules prohibit, such as discounts for reviews or asking only happy customers. The card prints in your accent colour, in any language, and nothing you type leaves your browser.

Without a pass, the free preview shows your review link to read, its QR code and the print card with every code blocked so it can’t be scanned, and the first words of each message; the wording check always works. Copying, testing and downloading unlock with a Pro pass.

Common uses

• A café or salon printing a counter sign or table tents so customers can review it before they leave the table.
• A clinic, agency or tradesperson sending a short request by SMS, WhatsApp or email after an appointment.
• A shop handing out business cards with a review QR code with every receipt.
• Checking a review request written by someone else before it goes out.

Which link to use

The safest link is the one Google gives you: in your Business Profile choose Read reviews, then Get more reviews, and copy it (Google Business Profile Help: Create a Google link or QR code to request reviews). Google notes that its own QR code can only be made in a computer browser, not on a phone. Without access to the profile, a Place ID works too: find your business in Google’s Place ID Finder, and the tool writes the link to Google’s write-a-review page for that place. A Google link that already carries the Place ID (a Maps link with place_id: in it, for example) works the same way. Google says that “Place IDs may change over time” (Place IDs), so test a printed code from time to time.

“Customers must be signed into a Google Account to leave a review” (Tips to get more reviews): the link asks them to sign in if they are not.

Google’s rules for asking

Google allows you to “solicit or encourage the posting of content that does represent a genuine experience, without offering incentives to do so or attempting to influence the rating or the contents of the review”. Its Maps content policy prohibits (Prohibited & restricted content):

• offering incentives in exchange for posting a review, or for changing or removing a negative one: payment, discounts, gifts, goods or services;
• to “discourage or prohibit negative reviews, or selectively solicit positive reviews from customers” (review gating);
• to “require or pressure users to leave ratings or write reviews while on the premises”, or to “request that specific content be included”;
• asking staff to collect a number of reviews, and content based on a conflict of interest, such as reviews by employees or competitors.

Google’s Business Profile help adds that offering incentives for reviews “is considered fake engagement and is strictly prohibited” (Create a Google link or QR code to request reviews). The messages here keep to these rules, and Check your own wording points at phrases that do not; it reads words, so a rule can still be broken in ways no checker sees.

Printing the card

• Counter sign: one card from A6 to A4 (or 4 × 6 in to US Letter) with a large code; print on card and stand it in a holder, or cut along the thin frame.
• Table tent: an A4 or US Letter sheet folded in half along the dashed line. The top half prints upside down, so both sides read the right way up on the table.
• Business cards: ten cards of 85 × 55 mm on A4, or 3.5 × 2 in on US Letter; cut along the marks.

Print at actual size (100%), not “fit to page”. Every code keeps a quiet zone of four modules, as the QR code standard asks, and prints in black on white for the most reliable scans. Words in scripts the card font does not include (Devanagari, Arabic, Chinese and others) are drawn into the PDF by your browser, in your device’s fonts, so other languages print too.

Where to share the link

Google suggests putting the link on receipts, in thank-you emails and at the end of a chat, displaying the QR code in your store, and sending requests by email, WhatsApp message or a Facebook post. Send messages only to customers who agreed to hear from you, and follow the rules for messages in your country.

Limitations

• The tool cannot open short Maps links (maps.app.goo.gl) or look up a business by name: that would need a request to Google. Paste the link from “Get more reviews” or a Place ID instead.
• It does not check that a link or Place ID belongs to your business: test the link (or scan the code) before you print.
• The wording check reads words and phrases; it cannot see how a request is made, and it is not legal advice.
• The templates are in English; edit them in your email or messaging app for other languages.
• MySmartCoPilot is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google: the tool builds its links, codes and cards from the review link or Place ID you paste.

Privacy

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