Creating a Widget
To display a stream of your reviews to a website or location page, use Surveys to create a widget.
Surveys offers three basic templates for widgets:
- Summary Template—A responsive template that lists review stats, a link to write a review, and reviews
- Basic List View—A simple list of reviews and authors' names
- Carousel—A rotating carousel that displays reviews and authors' names
- Go to Surveys > Widgets and select + Add New Widget.
- Select one of the three starter templates and fill out the template form details:
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You can customize the widget in HTML by selecting Edit Widget. For help customizing the template, select the question mark toggle on the upper right to display a detailed Template Customization help page. - Visibility—Shared means anyone on your account can use this template. Private means it is accessible to only you and account admins.
- Title—A template title
- # of reviews to be displayed—Decide how many reviews you want to show in the widget
- Minimum review rating—From one to five stars. It's a best practice to display only 4-star or 5-star ratings on your widget
- Color scheme—Change the colors to support your brand
- Filter Profanity—It is a best practice to filter your reviews for profanity so that your customers don't see reviews using profane language
- Show Reviews without text—You can select to omit reviews that have no text
- When satisfied with your widget, select Save.
- Fill out the form to specify which account and campaign you want to include in the review widget. If you wish, you can also specify which locations and listing providers you want included. As you fill out the form, the embed code appears.
- Once you've finalized your widget, it's time to make it visible on your site or page. To do this, select the clipboard icon to copy the embed code. Then, paste this code into the source of your site or page. This will embed your widget, making it visible to your site visitors.
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