Have you ever wanted to show off your online reviews on your website? If you are a small business, it’s a best practice for a few reasons:
- It makes it easy for your customers to leave you an online review
- It shows potential customers that you are transparent about your reviews and what your customers say about you
- It gives potential customers that extra little bit of encouragement to come see you or call
We’ve created a WordPress Plugin that will look up your online reviews on Google, Yahoo, Yelp, Bing, Citysearch, and even your Foursquare checkins and create a nice badge that you can display anywhere on your site.
Watch the Video
This video shows you how to set it up, and how it works:
Here’s what the badge looks like:
Download the Plugin
You can download the free plugin here:
Online Reviews Plugin for WordPress
Try it out and let me know what you think!
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cool WP plugin. Gonna have to test it on my own sites and see how it runs. I have a few review ones I can try.
Don,
I think you have a winner here!
Great idea, wish I thought of it.
Thanks @brandi
Thanks Matthew!
Hi Don,
It is a GREAT plugin…
I just downloaded the plugin, it works.. however it kinda messed my template abit…. I dunno what happened….
everytime I have the plugin activated, i would suddendly get blue links on my site, and some text on articles are cut off…
I am using the hybrid theme with wordpress 3.01 ….
Thanks Don!
Great plugin. I was just about to tackle something like this myself. You saved me a ton of work. What about adding a widget to display a smaller version of the reviews in a sidebar?
@agus, we found some css conflicts with some templates, and updated the plugin to resolve that. Try re-downloading it and that should fix the problem you are seeing.
@Kevin – thank you! Yes that is a great idea. We’re working on a widget to display in the sidebar too…
hi Don,
thanks for the update… it works great now
I was out of town when you launched this. Awesome work!
Hey thanks Mike!
This is a MUST have! Thanks for this great additional feature
Great! I just looked for something like this last week and couldn’t find it. Thanks for sending it out in your e-mail updates. I’ll give this a try. I would like to have it actaully show some of the reviews from Google. I thought about doing a screen grab of the google info and having that as a picture on the page, with this link box below it to where they can go and confirm the info is factual.
Is there actually any SEO advantage having this on your site?
@Karen – well, the link that you provide to your Google Places page helps your listing (yes, that is a web page with its own URL that can benefit from having links into it.)
The other advantage is showing your customers that you are being transparent about your online reviews, and getting more online reviews can help your rankings in the Google Maps listings.
@Katia – thank you!
@ Matt – that is a good idea, and one we’re looking at for a future version…
I have added the plugin, but it does not show that we have three Google reviews. I changed the links, and you can follow the link on the plugin and see we have three reviews. Any idea why it is not updating? It’s also not finding the Bing page that I copied and pasted in the plugin.
http://www.bennettchiropracticsmyrna.com/testimonials/
Something else I tried is doing a screen capture of some of the Google reviews, adding that to the page, and then changing the target URL of the image hyperlink to go to the Google Local page instead of the image in wordpress. That way the user has some reviews looking them in the face when they go to the review page on our site, and if they click on it they can see the actual source.
@Matt – I like the screen shot you put in there to show the review comments. Nice touch!
I’ll take a look at your Google reviews to see if I can find out why those aren’t coming back for you.
This is great Don, now I need to find a nich where I can get reviews. I am going to try it and see if I have any in the animal world first I guess.
Now you got me thinking about my next project. You may have created a fire.
This is awesome Thank you.
Wendy
Hi Don;
Awesome tool for displaying and getting reviews. Is it o.k.
to install this on customers websites?
Thanks,
Nick
@Nick, absolutely – the plugin is free so install away! Thanks for asking
@Wendy, I like to create fires – good luck with your project!!
hey don, having some trouble with the plugin collecting accurate data. hoping you can help.
please watch this video – http://screencast.com/t/MTMzZTJkN
cheers,
matty t
@matty – Thanks for providing the video; we’re looking into this right now. I’ll update here when I find out what is causing that.
BTW – I’ve been to Melbourne – it’s awesome there!