how to share google review link

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Your review link is inside your Business Profile: select "Read Reviews", then "Get more reviews", and select "Copy". Paste it into a text message, an email, a receipt or a chat with one plain sentence asking for a review, and never attach a reward or send it only to the customers who seemed happy.

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Checked against Google's help on 5 September 2026

The link does one job. It takes a customer straight to the form where they rate your business, so they do not have to search for you, find your listing, and look for the right button. This article shows where the link is, the ways Google itself suggests for sending it, what the customer sees when they tap it, and the two rules that get profiles into trouble.

Everything below assumes you are signed in to the Google Account that manages the profile. Google’s page Find your business on Google puts it simply: to see your profile you must “sign in to the Google Account associated with it”, and then search Google “for your business’s name and city or my business”.

how to share google review link

Get the link first; the sharing is just pasting. Google’s help page Create a Google link or QR code to request reviews gives three steps.

  1. Go to your Business Profile.
  2. Select “Read Reviews” and then “Get more reviews”. (Google’s other help pages print the same button as “Read reviews”; it is one button.)
  3. The screen that opens shows your review link and a QR code. In Google’s words: “You can share the link or QR code directly or use the other options.” To copy the review link, select “Copy”.

After “Copy” the link sits on your clipboard, and you paste it wherever you like. Google’s page lists where: “Include it on your receipts”, “Include it in thank you emails”, “Add it at the end of a chat interaction”, and “Print and display the QR code in your store”. It adds: “You can also send review requests through email, WhatsApp message, or Facebook post.”

The link and the QR code on that screen are one request in two shapes. Google’s tips page says: “you can ask customers to visit a Google link or scan a QR code.” Use the link for anything you type and the code for anything you print. The code has one limit that the link does not have: “Currently, reviews QR codes can only be generated on a computer browser, not on mobile devices.”

how to send a google review link to customers

Send it the way you already talk to them, with one sentence that says what it is. A message that works is short: a thank you, the ask, the link. For example: “Thank you for coming in today. If you have a minute, a review on Google helps other people find us:” and then the link on its own line. Sign it with the business name so it is not mistaken for spam.

Send it soon after the visit, while the visit is still in the customer’s head, and send it once; a reminder a week later reads as nagging. Send it to everyone you served that day, not to the ones who smiled. That last point is not manners, it is a rule, and it is covered further down.

Do not dress the link up. Send the address exactly as Google gives it, without a link shortener or a service that hides where it goes; a customer who cannot see that a link leads to Google has a reason not to tap it, and the address as Google gives it is the one the check at the end of this article confirms.

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Paste it into the text message or the WhatsApp message and press send; nothing else is needed. Google’s own list of ways to send a review request includes a “WhatsApp message”, and a plain text message works the same way: the phone turns the address into a tappable link on its own.

What the customer sees on their phone is worth knowing before you send. Google’s steps for writing a review begin with “Sign in to Google Maps”, so the customer needs a Google Account and, if not signed in, signs in first. Then the review form: “To score the place, click the stars. You can also write a review.” The last button is “Post”. The review is public and carries the customer’s name: “All reviews are public and anyone can find what you add. You’re unable to add an anonymous review.”

If a customer says nothing happened after they posted, two Google notes explain most cases. Reviews “are checked to ensure they comply with our policies. In some cases, this process might take a few days, which can delay a review’s appearance on your profile.” And “Customers who use older phones or software might have trouble when they try to leave reviews.” Both come from Google’s page on missing or delayed reviews.

how to send a google review link via email

Put the link in the email as a plain line of text, or behind a few words such as “leave us a review on Google”, and keep the email about the visit rather than about the review. Google’s list names “thank you emails” as a place for the link, and a thank you email is exactly that: the receipt or the summary of what was done, with the ask at the bottom.

If you send many such emails, the same sentence can go into your email signature, so that every reply carries it. The QR code from the same “Get more reviews” screen can go into the email too, which helps someone reading on a computer who wants to scan with the phone. Right-click the code and select “Save image as…” to get the picture file.

how to share review link on google maps

There are two different links people mean by this, and Google gives each in a different place. The first is the request link above: it asks a customer to write a review. The second is a link to one review that already exists, which you might want to put on your website or in a social post.

For the second, Google’s page on managing customer reviews gives the route through Google Maps. Go to Google Maps. Search for your business’s name and city. Select “Reviews”. Next to the review you want to share, select “More” and then “Share review”. In the “Share” pop-up window, select “Send a link”. Under “Link to share”, you find the link to that review. Anyone who opens it sees that one review as it stands on Google, under the reviewer’s name.

What Google’s rules say about sending the link

The link is allowed; two habits around it are not. Google’s content policy for Maps says contributions “should reflect a genuine experience at a place or business”, and it lists what a business may not do: offer “payment, discounts, free goods and/or services” in exchange for a review, and “Discourage or prohibit negative reviews, or selectively solicit positive reviews from customers”. So no “leave a review and get a discount”, and no sending the link only to the customers who seemed pleased. The Business Profile help page says it in one line: “Offering incentives, like free or discounted goods or services, in exchange for customers to post reviews, change reviews, or remove negative reviews is considered fake & misleading content and is strictly prohibited.”

What follows a breach is on Google’s page about restrictions for policy violations. The “Business Profile will not be able to receive new reviews or ratings for set period of time”, the “Business Profile’s existing reviews or ratings will be unpublished for set period of time”, and the profile may “display a warning to let consumers know that fake reviews were removed”. Google says “Businesses have the ability to appeal our decision”. A link sent to everybody, with no reward attached, never gets you there.

There is one more thing to do with what comes back. Google’s tips page lists “Reply to reviews” next to asking for them, and its page on managing reviews says “Before you can reply to reviews, you must verify your business.” A customer who took the trouble to write, after you asked, expects to be answered.

How to check this yourself

  1. Send the link to yourself, once by text message and once by email, and tap it on your phone.
  2. Look at what opens. It should be the review form for your business: your business name and the stars to tap. If it opens a search page, your website, or another business, go back to “Get more reviews” and select “Copy” again; something else was on the clipboard.
  3. Do not post. Google’s policy counts “current or former employment” and other “professional or personal affiliations” as a conflict of interest, and a review of your own business would break it. Close the form.
  4. Read your message as a stranger would. If it contains a reward, a condition, or the words “if you were happy”, take them out.
  5. A few days after the first send, open your profile, select “Read Reviews”, and see what came in. Each new review has “Reply” next to it.

If you would rather someone read your reviews every week and answer them for you, that is what monthly review management is. This article is part of the Reviews guide.

Questions

how do i send a google review link

Copy it from your Business Profile first: select “Read Reviews”, then “Get more reviews”, then “Copy”. Then paste it into whatever you already use to talk to that customer: a text message, WhatsApp, an email, or the chat you served them in. Add one sentence that says what the link is for, and send it as it is.

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The same way you send them anything else. Google’s own suggestions are a receipt, a thank you email, the end of a chat, and a message on email, WhatsApp or Facebook. Send the link to every client you served, not to a chosen few, and do not tie it to a discount or a gift; both of those break Google’s content policy.

how to send a google review link to someone

Paste the link from the “Get more reviews” screen into a message to that person. When they tap it, Google opens the review form for your business; they sign in to Google, pick the stars, can write a few words, and press “Post”. The review then shows publicly under their name, and it may take a few days to appear while Google checks it.

Can I copy the review link on my phone?

Google’s help page puts a device condition only on the QR code, which it says can be generated only in a computer browser. The steps for the link name no device: go to your Business Profile, select “Read Reviews”, then “Get more reviews”, then “Copy”. If you do not see the screen on your phone, sign in on a computer and copy it there once; the link does not have to be fetched again each time.

Can I send the link only to customers I know were happy?

No. Google’s content policy for Maps says a business may not “Discourage or prohibit negative reviews, or selectively solicit positive reviews from customers”. Sending the link only to people who seemed pleased is exactly that. Send it to everyone you served, and answer the reviews you do not like instead of filtering who gets asked.

Does sending the link change my position on Google?

Nobody can promise that. Google’s local ranking page says results are “mainly based on relevance, distance, and popularity” and that “More reviews and positive ratings can help your business’s local ranking.” The same page says there is no way to request or pay for a better local ranking. The link only makes asking easy; what customers write is theirs.

Sources

  1. create a Google link or QR code to request reviews: Read Reviews, Get more reviews, Copy, where to put the link, email, WhatsApp message or Facebook post, QR code on a computer only, checked 5 September 2026
  2. tips to get more reviews: ask customers to visit a Google link or scan a QR code, incentives are prohibited, reply to reviews, checked 5 September 2026
  3. find your business on Google: search for the business name and city or my business, sign in to the Google Account associated with it, checked 5 September 2026
  4. manage customer reviews: get a link to a customer's review on Google Maps (More, Share review, Send a link, Link to share), the Reply button, verification, checked 5 September 2026
  5. add a review on Google Maps: sign in, the stars, Write a review, Post, reviews are public and never anonymous, checked 5 September 2026
  6. missing or delayed reviews: policy checks can take a few days, older phones or software can have trouble, checked 5 September 2026
  7. prohibited content on Maps: incentives, discouraging negative reviews, selectively soliciting positive reviews, conflict of interest, checked 5 September 2026
  8. restrictions for policy violations: no new reviews for a set period, existing reviews unpublished, a warning on the profile, appeal, checked 5 September 2026
  9. local ranking: relevance, distance and popularity; more reviews and positive ratings can help; no way to pay for ranking, checked 5 September 2026

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