Google Review Link Generator

What Is a Google Review Link?

A Google review link is a URL that opens the star-rating box for your business directly, skipping search entirely. It looks like search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid=… and ends in your listing's Place ID. Tap it on a phone and the review dialog is already open with your business name at the top.

That matters because the default alternative — "could you leave us a review on Google?" — asks the customer to do four things: open Google, remember your exact business name, pick the right listing out of the results, and then find the review button buried under the photos. Every one of those steps loses people who genuinely intended to help you.

How to Get Your Google Review Link

Open your business on Google Maps, copy the URL from the address bar, and paste it into the Google review link generator at the top of this page. You get the review link and a scannable QR code immediately.

You do not need to own the listing or be signed into Google Business Profile. The review link is built from the listing's Place ID, which is public information carried inside the Maps URL itself — so agencies can generate links for clients without waiting on account access.

Google Business Profile does offer owners a share link of its own, under "Ask for reviews". It works, but it is a short g.page redirect, it requires you to be signed in as the owner, and it gives you no QR code. Generating the link from the Place ID gets you the canonical URL with nothing in the middle.

Google Review QR Codes That Do Not Expire

Most free QR generators encode a link to their domain, which then redirects to yours. That is how they offer scan analytics — and it is also why so many printed codes stop working. When the provider shuts down, changes its pricing, or lets a domain lapse, every sticker, plaque and menu you printed becomes a dead end. Search for "QR code stopped working" and you will find years of businesses learning this the hard way.

The QR code from this generator encodes your Google review URL directly. There is no redirect and no third party in the chain. If this site vanished tomorrow, every code already printed would keep working, because the only domain involved is Google's.

The code is drawn in your browser rather than fetched from an image service, so no request leaves the page while you generate it. Download at 1024px for anything handheld, or 2048px for signage and window decals.

Where to Use Your Google Review Link

1. Right after the moment of value

The single biggest factor in review conversion is timing. A link sent the moment a job is finished, a meal ends, or a delivery lands converts several times better than one sent days later. Put the link in whatever message already goes out at that moment rather than adding a new one.

2. On the receipt or invoice

A QR on the receipt catches customers while they are still on the premises with a phone in hand. Keep it at least 2.5 cm and print at 300 DPI — thermal printers smear small modules and a smeared QR simply fails to scan.

3. In your email signature

Use the plain link here, not the QR. Nobody scans a QR code on the screen they are already reading. "Happy with our work? A Google review takes 30 seconds" with the link behind it does the job.

4. On a counter stand or table tent

The highest-yield placement for anywhere customers wait. Pair the QR with one line of copy telling people what happens when they scan — an unexplained QR code gets ignored, and increasingly gets treated as suspicious.

5. Reply to the reviews you get

Collecting reviews is half of it. Public replies, especially to critical ones, are read by every future customer scanning your profile — and Google explicitly encourages owner responses. If replying at volume is the bottleneck, that is a solvable problem.

For Agencies: Review Links at Scale

One listing at a time is fine for your own business. Managing local SEO for fifty clients is a different problem — you need the listings, their Place IDs and their review links as a spreadsheet, not as fifty visits to a form.

GMapsScraper returns Place IDs along with phone, website, email and rating for every business in a search, so review links are a single formula away in your export. Our Place ID finder covers the one-off lookups, and the bulk keywords generator builds the search queries when you are working a niche across many cities.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I find my Google review link?

Copy your listing's Google Maps URL and paste it into the generator above. The review link is derived from the Place ID inside that URL, so it works whether or not you have access to the Business Profile account.

Can I get a review link without a Google Business Profile?

You need a listing on Google Maps, but you do not need to have claimed it. If the business appears on Maps, it has a Place ID, and this tool can build the link. If it does not appear on Maps at all, there is nothing for customers to review yet — create the listing first.

Is the QR code free to use commercially?

Yes. There is no watermark, no account, no scan limit and no expiry. Print it on whatever you like. The QR Code trademark belongs to DENSO WAVE, which permits use of the standard without licence.

Can I filter out bad reviews with this?

No, and you should be wary of tools that offer it. Routing only satisfied customers to Google is review gating, which Google's policies prohibit. The realistic downside is not a warning — it is a review purge or a suspended profile, usually arriving long after you have printed everything.

What size should I print the review QR code?

Roughly one tenth of the distance people will scan from: about 2.5 cm on a receipt, 5 cm on a table tent, 8 cm on a window, 15 cm or more on signage. Always test the actual printed piece with a phone before committing to a print run.

Why does my review link open the business page instead of the rating box?

That usually means the link was built from a CID or a shortened g.page URL rather than a Place ID. The writereview endpoint needs a Place ID specifically. Paste your Maps URL above and use the link this tool produces.