How to make a URL that prompts the user to review your Google Business page

Here's a quick tip for anyone that's been wanting to prompt your visitors/customers/members to review your business on Google maps.

<p dir="auto">Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no official documentation on how to link to your Google business page and automatically get the review box to open. <p dir="auto">It used to be possible in an old version where there was a URL parameter name <code>review or something that would open up the box. But with the new format, it's unclear what kind of data that is being encoded into the URL. <p dir="auto"><img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmd2sENatAVX5H46DFYtjYuiFzoPjUc3GvyFF4Jxcvr8xg/url.png" alt="Unclear whats in the URL" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmd2sENatAVX5H46DFYtjYuiFzoPjUc3GvyFF4Jxcvr8xg/url.png 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmd2sENatAVX5H46DFYtjYuiFzoPjUc3GvyFF4Jxcvr8xg/url.png 2x" /> <h1>I just found a way <p dir="auto">Today as I was reading my Local Guide email from Google, it suddenly struck me that they're doing just that: linking to the business and automatically opening the review box. So I checked the URL and found this. <p dir="auto"><img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmXZZQaV8kQ97YLKfqNaXsSKpuugTXz5wSFzJRbjpCdkCT/image.png" alt="Local guides automatically opening review" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmXZZQaV8kQ97YLKfqNaXsSKpuugTXz5wSFzJRbjpCdkCT/image.png 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmXZZQaV8kQ97YLKfqNaXsSKpuugTXz5wSFzJRbjpCdkCT/image.png 2x" /> <p dir="auto">There's something interesting there. An id that we never refer to when linking to our business from Google Maps or when you go to <a href="https://business.google.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Google My Business <p dir="auto">So I looked up where I could find it, and you can find your own id if you go to your Google Maps listing and inspect the "review button". Notice the highlighted id string. <p dir="auto"><img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmWn7QnfGg9tFjzBL7bK4NPAYLaVLPdos8LvTJLtdTUEUv/image.png" alt="Business ID" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmWn7QnfGg9tFjzBL7bK4NPAYLaVLPdos8LvTJLtdTUEUv/image.png 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmWn7QnfGg9tFjzBL7bK4NPAYLaVLPdos8LvTJLtdTUEUv/image.png 2x" /> <p dir="auto">Now, take that ID and append it to the URL: <code>http://search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid=[put your id here] <p dir="auto"><span>In the case of my business the URL is: <a href="http://search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid=ChIJJxmocr9B0i0RfU4_C7mDQxk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">http://search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid=ChIJJxmocr9B0i0RfU4_C7mDQxk <p dir="auto"><center> <h2>There you go. That's how you prompt someone to review your business <p dir="auto">