{"id":18865,"date":"2015-12-04T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=18865"},"modified":"2015-12-04T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:39:08","slug":"picking-a-google-review-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/04\/picking-a-google-review-url\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking A Google Review URL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just published an article on the GetFiveStars* blog titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfivestars.com\/blog\/google-reviews-one-url-to-rule-them-all\/\">Google Reviews \u2013 One URL To Rule Them All <\/a> where you can read some ideas on picking a single Google URL for an SMB review program:<\/p>\n<p><em>With the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/18\/the-new-google-plus-all-about-collections-not-about-business\/\">recent divorce<\/a>\u00a0of Google Plus and Google My Business, they have once again thrown a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/25\/google-plus-upgrade-faq-for-the-smb\/\">Google monkey wrench<\/a>\u00a0into the review process. If you are not using GetFivesStars (where we get to worry about these details) you need to decide which review URL to give your customers going forward.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getfivestars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Google-review-URL-writtten.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The link you give to your customer should just work all the time and make it easy for your customers to see and leave you reviews at Google. For most small businesses doing their own review requests\u00a0you ideally want a link that:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Gets your customer very close to the place on Google\u00a0to be able to leave a review with the fewest clicks and scrolls.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Works in both desktop and mobile environments (as mobile usage is reaching 50% of all web viewing).<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Works whether the user is already logged in to Google or not.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>And finally, is\u00a0a link that you never have to change.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Note that I am a co-founder and principal in GetFiveStars.com, an agency &#038; SMB friendly feedback and review solution.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just published an article on the GetFiveStars* blog titled: Google Reviews \u2013 One URL To Rule Them All where you can read some ideas on picking a single Google URL for an SMB review program: With the\u00a0recent divorce\u00a0of Google Plus and Google My Business, they have once again thrown a\u00a0Google monkey wrench\u00a0into the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18868,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865\/revisions\/18868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}