Help customers easily leave a review by configuring your web server to redirect a short URL to the long complicated Google review URL.
When you grab the Google review link (found in your Google Business Profile), it will look something like this:
https://g.page/r/848302HEIW3x/review
That is all well and good, but no one can remember that. They just can’t. You can’t read that out to someone over the phone. Yes you, could email them the link, but let’s be realistic here.
You want a quick way to give people the means to review you in any situation. What do you do?
Create an Easy-to-remember Redirect Using Your Web Server
Create a redirect using the server’s .htaccess file, or whatever you have which achieves a similar result. Like this…
redirect 301 /review https://g.page/r/848302HEIW3x/review
What have we done here?
We’ve created a URL which when visited will immediately take the user to the Google review page.
All they have to do is type your web address followed by “review”, like this…
example.com/review
Update: there’s a slightly different way to do this now with instructions directly from Google, but the principle is the same.
In this video you are introduced to the idea of how you may configure your web server to create and then redirect a short, user friendly URL to the longer, more complicated Google review URL where customers can leave a positive review.
- The Google Review links are very long and not easy to say aloud or write down.
- Customers give up easily if the process of writing a review feels difficult.
