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Reviews on your website, done properly
How to collect, embed and manage customer reviews, with numbers from the review data we import every day. Written by the team building the widget.
- Review sources
How to show Google Shopping seller ratings on your website
Every one of the 16,158 Google Shopping reviews in our database is a seller rating. Not one is a product review. That difference decides where they belong on your site.
9 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to show App Store and Google Play reviews on your website
We hold five App Store connections and one Google Play connection across our whole database. Here is what the reviews inside them actually look like.
8 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to add Product Hunt reviews to your website, not just upvotes
Product Hunt's official badge counts upvotes, not reviews, and a review badge does not exist. Here is what we measured and how to get the text onto your page.
6 Sept 2026 - Review sources
Trusted Shops reviews widget: how to add it (and the 365-day catch)
The Trusted Shops API only returns the last 365 days of reviews. We measured it live: exactly one year, day for day, on a shop with reviews back to 2020.
6 Sept 2026 - Review sources
Reviews.io widget: how to embed it, and why most connections go quiet
In our own data, 18 of 24 Reviews.io connections have not imported a single new review in over a year. Here is what that means before you connect one.
6 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to add G2 reviews to your website (not just the badge)
G2's own badge is a 78,789-byte PNG with no rating and no words in it. Here is what we measured, and how to get the actual review text onto your page.
5 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to add Capterra reviews to your website (B2B software)
We hold 6,697 Capterra reviews across 7 accounts. They average 489 characters, and five of those seven businesses have no Google reviews at all.
4 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to add Yell reviews to your website (UK listings)
We hold 2,831 Yell reviews across 42 accounts. Not one of them is blank and 95.7% carry five stars, but only 6 arrived in the last 30 days.
3 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to add Tripadvisor reviews to your website (no API key)
Tripadvisor reviews on your own site: 12,799 of ours average 432 characters and not one is blank, but only 29 arrived last month. What that means for your page.
1 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to add Airbnb reviews to your direct booking website
Airbnb reviews on your own site: 98.4% of ours sit at four or five stars and not one is blank. What that does to a booking page, and why the listing URL matters.
31 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to add Booking.com reviews to your hotel website
Booking.com reviews on your own site: 37% of them carry a complaint in the same body as the praise, and what that means for a direct booking page.
30 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to show Etsy reviews on your website
Etsy reviews on your website: the two import paths, what a full shop history costs, and why a quarter of Etsy reviews arrive with no text at all.
29 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to show eBay feedback on your website
How to show eBay feedback on your website: what the star ratings really mean, which entries eBay wrote itself, and how to lay the widget out around both.
28 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to put Booksy reviews on your website
How to put Booksy reviews on your website: connect the salon profile, expect short five-star entries with no photos, and lay the widget out around that.
26 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to add Facebook reviews to your website (they are recommendations)
How to add Facebook reviews to a website: connect the Page rather than your profile, and treat recommendations as a yes or no vote instead of a five-star rating.
25 Aug 2026 - Platforms
React reviews widget: the four ways it breaks in Next.js
We instrumented our own embed script inside React 18 and Next.js 14 on 24 August 2026. Exact numbers for the duplicate render, the silent zero, and the fix.
24 Aug 2026 - Platforms
How to add Google reviews to Divi without an extra plugin
We read 25 live Divi sites running our reviews widget on 23 August 2026: where the code has to go, the three ways it silently fails, and the exact snippet.
23 Aug 2026 - Data
Review sources comparison: which ones still work in 2026, measured
A review sources comparison built from 1,375,512 imported reviews and 4,834 live connections: which sources still deliver, and which quietly stopped.
22 Aug 2026 - Legal
Google reviews API: what you can and cannot build
Places API returns 5 reviews and forbids caching. Business Profile API needs profile ownership. Measured against 384,482 Google reviews we actually hold.
21 Aug 2026 - Legal
GDPR and your reviews widget: what data it actually processes
What a reviews widget really sends, stores and logs. Measured on our own widget in an isolated test: zero cookies on load, no third-party hosts, self-hosted fonts.
20 Aug 2026 - Legal
Review schema markup: when you get stars in Google (and when not)
Review schema only earns stars when ratings are real, sourced and visible on the page. Google's actual rule, plus what we do and do not mark up ourselves.
19 Aug 2026 - Platform guides
Sitejabber is now SmartCustomer: what the rebrand changes
Sitejabber renamed itself SmartCustomer and moved domain. What changed, what did not, and the four places on your own site that still point at the old name.
19 Aug 2026 - Legal
Buy Google reviews: what it actually costs when you get caught
Bought reviews arrive with three bills: the regulator's, the platform's and your own website's. Plus what copy-paste reviews look like inside 384,146 Google reviews.
18 Aug 2026 - Legal
FTC rules for customer reviews: what you can and cannot hide
What the 2024 FTC rule bans, what it deliberately allows, and what review suppression actually looks like measured across 1,376,535 stored reviews.
17 Aug 2026 - Legal
Can you use Amazon reviews on your own website?
Half of them, and our import log shows which half. 337,483 Amazon product reviews stopped arriving on 1 November 2024. Seller feedback still syncs today.
16 Aug 2026 - Legal
Is it legal to embed Google reviews on your website?
Yes, under three conditions. What Google's terms require, where the real risk sits, and the attribution rate measured across 383,820 Google reviews.
14 Aug 2026 - Platform guides
Google Reviews Search by Name: What Works
Google reviews search by name rarely finds the review you want: names repeat and 32.4% of reviews have no text. Rating and date filters work better.
13 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to get reviews on your website in two steps
How to get reviews on your website: find the reviews customers already left on Google, Facebook or a marketplace, then embed them where visitors decide.
12 Aug 2026 - Platform guides
Google Reviews by Me: Find Every Review You Wrote
Google reviews by me live in Maps, not Search. Open maps.google.com/contrib for every review you wrote, newest first, with edit and delete on each one.
12 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Google reviews HTML embed: what the snippet really does
There is no Google reviews HTML code to paste and no iframe that works. Here is the measured cost of the snippet that does work, request by request.
11 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Joomla Google reviews plugin: what the text filter deletes
You do not need a Joomla plugin to show Google reviews. You need the script tag to survive the save. Here is exactly what Joomla deletes, and what it keeps.
10 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Google reviews in PrestaShop: where the snippet goes, measured
We fingerprinted every domain calling our widget and found 16 PrestaShop shops. On five of their pages the script loaded, called our API and rendered nothing.
9 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Google reviews on GoDaddy: the HTML section, measured
GoDaddy runs your HTML section inside a sandboxed iframe. We measured what that does: a list widget grows to 827px, a floating badge gets stuck at 150px.
6 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Google reviews on Shopify: where the snippet goes (20 live stores)
Where the snippet goes in a Shopify theme, and what 19 Shopify accounts running a live reviews widget actually connect: 47% Google, 42% eBay.
4 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Webflow Google reviews integration: what the 940 px container does
How to put Google reviews on a Webflow site with an Embed element, and what breaks when you publish to a custom domain.
3 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Elementor Google reviews widget: what a hidden tab does to it
Three ways to add Google reviews to an Elementor page, and why the widget often renders in the editor but stays blank on the live site.
2 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to put marketplace reviews on your website: Amazon, eBay, Allegro
Reviews you already earned on Amazon, eBay, Etsy or Allegro can go on your own site. What is possible per platform and what is not.
30 Jul 2026 - Platforms
Google reviews widget on Wix: how tall the HTML box has to be
Measured heights for a reviews widget inside a Wix HTML box: 827 px at 980 px wide, 932 px on mobile, and why a narrower box needs a taller one.
28 Jul 2026 - Comparisons
Best Google reviews widget in 2026: 7 tools, honestly compared
Best Google reviews widget in 2026? Featurable, Elfsight, Trustindex, EmbedSocial, Tagembed and JustReview compared on free limits and view meters.
26 Jul 2026 - Platforms
Google reviews widget on Squarespace (and why the editor looks empty)
How to embed Google reviews on Squarespace with Code Injection and a Code block, plus the four reasons the widget shows nothing at all.
26 Jul 2026 - Platforms
How to add a Google reviews widget to WordPress (3 ways, measured)
Three ways to put Google reviews on WordPress, what each costs in page weight and database queries, and why widgets fail to render.
26 Jul 2026