--- title: "Free Google review link generator — Testymo" description: "Turn a Google Place ID into the direct link that opens the review box, plus a QR code for a counter card or a receipt. Runs in your browser — no API key, no account, nothing sent anywhere." url: https://testymo.com/free/google-review-link-generator --- [Free tools](https://testymo.com/free) ★ Google review link generator # Google review link generator Paste your Place ID and get the one link that drops a customer straight into the review box — no searching, no scrolling past the map. A QR code comes with it, for the counter, the receipt or the van door. - **What it costs** — Nothing. No account, no email, no watermark, no limit on how often you use it. - **Where your text goes** — Nowhere. The whole tool runs in your browser — nothing you type is sent, stored, or seen by us. The page-view measurement this site carries counts the visit, never the text. Your Place ID Don’t have it? Look your business up in Google’s [Place ID Finder](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/places-placeid-finder) and paste the ID it shows. The field starts empty on purpose — anyone else’s ID here would build a link into their listing, not yours. Your review link Paste a Place ID above to build the link. Test it ↗ Test it before you print it. The link should open the review box with your business named at the top — if it opens the wrong place, the Place ID belongs to a different listing, and no amount of QR resolution fixes that. QR code Your QR code appears here. The SVG is the one to send a printer — it stays sharp at any size, from a business card to a shop window. ## 01 Finding your Place ID A Place ID is Google’s permanent handle for one listing — usually 27 characters starting with `ChIJ`. It is not in your Maps share link, which is the thing most people try first: a share URL carries coordinates and a name, and no ID at all. - Open the [Place ID Finder](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/places-placeid-finder), which is a page in Google’s own Maps documentation. - Type your business name and address into its search box, and pick your listing. - Copy the ID from the marker’s label, and paste it above. You can paste the whole `place_id=…` line if that is what you have — the field pulls the ID out of it. What comes back is your ID on the end of one fixed address, which is the entire trick and the reason no lookup is needed: ``` https://search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid=YOUR_PLACE_ID ``` One caveat worth knowing before you engrave it on anything: Google documents that a Place ID can change if a listing is edited or merged, so re-test the link when you reprint, not just when you first make it. And test it while logged in as yourself — the page it opens should name *your* business, which is the only check that catches an ID copied off the wrong marker. ## 02 Where the link and the code actually earn their keep The link’s job is removing steps. A customer who has to search your name, pick you out of the results, scroll past the map and find the review button will do it if they are annoyed and not if they are merely pleased — which skews everything you collect. One tap into the review box is the whole intervention. Put the link in your email signature, the last line of an invoice, and the thank-you page after a booking. The QR belongs where a phone is already out and your hands are not: the counter, the receipt, the back of a card, the van. Print it at least 2 cm across, leave the white border alone — that quiet zone is what a scanner uses to find the code — and never put it somewhere a customer would have to be driving to scan it. Timing beats placement, either way. [How to ask for a testimonial](https://testymo.com/blog/how-to-ask-for-a-testimonial) is about the moment, and it applies to a review the same way: ask when the job just went well, not on the first of the month. ## 03 What a Google review can't do for you It stays on Google. You cannot put it on your homepage, style it, quote the best line of it above your pricing, or keep it if the listing is ever suspended. Reviews and testimonials are different assets that people ask for in the same breath — [testimonials vs reviews](https://testymo.com/blog/testimonials-vs-reviews) is the long version of that distinction, and the short version is that one builds a profile you rent and the other builds a page you own. **Testymo does not import Google reviews**, and this tool does not change that — it is here because the ask is the same ask, and it is worth doing well. If you want the same customer’s words on your own site, the honest route is to collect them directly: the [request generator](https://testymo.com/free/testimonial-request-generator) writes the message, a [Testymo form](https://testymo.com/) takes the answer with permission attached, and [the HTML generator](https://testymo.com/free/testimonial-html-generator) or an embed puts it on the page. Ask for both in one message and most people do both. ## 04 Questions this page gets - **Is this an official Google tool?** — No. This page is not made by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Google. It assembles a documented URL from an ID you paste, and draws a QR code of it. The lookup itself happens on Google’s own Place ID Finder, which is why that is a link rather than a box on this page. - **Does my Place ID get sent anywhere?** — No. The link is assembled and the QR drawn in your browser. There is no API key on this page and no request to look anything up — that is the trade that keeps the tool free and keeps your data yours. - **What about the short `g.page` link Google gave me?** — Use it if you have it. Google generates those from inside your Business Profile, and they are built on a different identifier than the Place ID — so no tool can derive one from the other, this one included. Both open the same review box. - **Will the QR code stop working?** — The code itself never expires; it is just a printed URL. What can change underneath it is the Place ID, if Google merges or reworks your listing. Scan your own printed code once or twice a year. - **Can I offer a discount for leaving a review?** — Don’t. Paying for reviews violates Google’s policies and gets listings penalised, and an incentivised review is worth less than none for the reason it was supposed to be worth something. Ask well and ask at the right moment instead. More free tools - [Testimonial slider & HTML generator I need a testimonial slider or section, as code I can paste.](https://testymo.com/free/testimonial-html-generator) - [Testimonial request generator How do I actually word the ask?](https://testymo.com/free/testimonial-request-generator) - [Testimonial question picker What should I actually ask my customers?](https://testymo.com/free/testimonial-question-picker) - [Testimonial image generator How do I turn this quote into something postable?](https://testymo.com/free/testimonial-image-generator) - [Star rating calculator What's my average rating — and how many 5-star reviews until it moves?](https://testymo.com/free/star-rating-calculator) The part no tool does A tool can shape what you already have. Testymo is for getting it: a testimonial form people actually finish, your approval on every word before it goes public, and the permission recorded alongside it. Free to start — no card, no view meters. [Collect your first testimonial →](https://testymo.com/app?utm_source=free&utm_campaign=google-review-link-generator)