Free Google Reviews Widget for One Location

The short answer

Yes, ReputeMap’s Google reviews widget is free for one business location. You connect your Google Business Profile, pick one of six layouts and paste one line of code into your website. There’s no card to enter, and the free widget isn’t a trial: it doesn’t stop after 14 days.

Free means one location and the widget only, with a small “Powered by ReputeMap” link on it. Every paid plan, from $19 a month, shows the same widget with no ReputeMap link and adds the work around it: one inbox for your reviews, AI reply drafts, alerts for 1–3★ reviews and review requests to every customer.

What you get, free and paid

	Free widget	Paid plans, from $19/mo
Locations with a widget	1	Every location on your plan (1 to 200)
Six layouts; light, dark or automatic theme	Yes	Yes
Newest reviews and the true average, no rating filter	Yes	Yes
Monthly view limit	None	None
ReputeMap link on the widget	A small “Powered by ReputeMap”	None
Card to sign up	No	Yes, for the 14-day trial
Review inbox, AI reply drafts, alerts, review requests	No	Yes

A few things hold on every version:

• The average is the real one. It counts every review of the location, not a selection, and it’s never rounded up: a 4.96 shows as 4.9, not 5.0.
• No rating filter. The widget shows your newest reviews, up to 10, whatever their stars. There’s no setting to hide the bad ones, so there’s nothing to label as “highlights”.
• It keeps itself current. New reviews show up without anyone touching the code on your site.
• It stays out of your page’s way. The script loads asynchronously, and the widget draws inside its own shadow DOM, so your theme’s CSS can’t break it and it can’t restyle your page.

See the six layouts

The demo below is the real widget running on a sample barbershop’s website, with sample reviews. Switch layouts and themes to see each one where it would sit on a real page.

Each layout is one attribute on the same script tag, and a few more attributes set the details:

Widget layouts and where it works

Pick the layout by where it will sit on the page. Every layout links to your Google listing.

• List: your newest reviews in a narrow column, for sidebars, booking pages and blog posts.
• Carousel: a row of review cards with arrows, for a homepage band under the hero. It shows the most reviews for the least height.
• Grid: a reviews section on a landing or services page.
• Wall: a Reviews page of its own, with each review’s full text.
• Badge: your star average and review count in a small pill for the header, the footer or the space next to your Book button. badge-card shows the same as a rating card.
• Floating: a pill in a corner of every page that opens the reviews, with no layout work.

The widget works on any site that lets you paste an HTML snippet: WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow or a hand-written page. The table further down says where the code goes on each. Each location has its own widget with its own reviews, so a business with several branches can show each branch’s reviews on that branch’s page instead of one feed for the whole brand.

If you’re weighing other ways to show Google reviews: pasted quotes and screenshots are free, but they stop on the day you made them, and Google’s own Maps embed shows a map rather than your reviews and can’t be styled. One limit applies to every script-based widget, this one included: search engines don’t reliably read reviews drawn by JavaScript, so treat the widget as proof for visitors and don’t expect it to change your rankings.

Free and paid plans run the same six layouts. The free widget covers one location and carries a small “Powered by ReputeMap” link. Every paid plan removes the link and gives each location on the plan its own widget: Solo covers 1 location ($19 a month), Starter 5 ($29), Growth 15 ($79), Pro 30 ($129), Portfolio 75 ($149) and Network 200 ($189).

Add it in three steps

1. Connect your Google Business Profile. Open the free widget page in ReputeMap, create an account and connect Google through Google’s own sign-in. You need to be an owner or manager of the profile; we never see your password.
2. Pick the location and a layout. Choose the one location the free widget is for, then a layout and a theme, and check the live preview.
3. Copy one line into your site. The builder gives you a single script tag with your widget’s ID. Paste it where the reviews should appear, and the widget draws itself right there.

Get your free widget One location, no card.

Where to paste the code

Your site runs on	Where the code goes
WordPress, block editor	A Custom HTML block where the reviews should appear
WordPress with Elementor or another page builder	The builder’s HTML element
Wix	Add → Embed code → Embed HTML
Squarespace	A Code block
Shopify	A Custom Liquid section in the theme editor
Webflow	An Embed element
Hand-written HTML	Anywhere inside the page’s body

Two things worth knowing before you paste:

• Wix puts embedded code in a frame of its own. The widget shows inside the box you draw, so the Floating layout floats inside that box rather than over the whole page. List, Grid or a Badge suit that box better.
• One tag, one widget. For a badge in the header and a carousel on the homepage, paste the tag twice with different data-layout values. Both read the same reviews.

A WordPress plugin is on the way. We’re building a plugin that connects the widget from your WordPress dashboard, with no code to copy. It isn’t in the WordPress.org plugin directory yet; until it is, the Custom HTML block does the same job.

The limits, plainly

• One location. The free widget covers one Google Business Profile location. Widgets for more locations come with a plan: Starter covers 5 for $29 a month.
• Our link stays on it. The free widget shows a small “Powered by ReputeMap” link. It’s marked nofollow, so it passes no ranking credit from your site to ours. Any paid plan removes it.
• The widget, nothing else. The free account doesn’t include the review inbox, AI replies, alerts or review requests.
• Google reviews only. No Facebook, Yelp or Tripadvisor reviews.
• You need access to the profile. The widget reads your reviews through your Google connection, so an owner or manager has to connect it. That connection is also what gives it every review to count; a widget built on Google’s public place data gets at most five reviews per place (Google Reviews API, explained).
• It’s for accounts that have never had a subscription. Start the trial or a paid plan and the widget becomes part of that plan, without our link. If you cancel later, it stops showing along with the rest of the account.

When another widget fits better

• You want Facebook, Yelp or Tripadvisor reviews next to Google’s. Pick a multi-platform tool; our comparison of the best Google review widgets lists the free and cheap ones with their limits.
• You build sites for clients and can’t get access to their Business Profile. A widget that works from a Place ID or a business name is easier to set up, with the five-review ceiling above.
• You want to show only 4- and 5-star reviews. This widget doesn’t do that, on any plan. If you use one that does, label the block as highlights rather than all your reviews.

When a paid plan earns its $19

A widget only shows the reviews you already have. If new ones arrive once a quarter, it shows the same handful for months, and visitors notice the dates. That’s where the rest of ReputeMap pays for itself: review requests by email and QR code to every customer, one inbox for every review, AI reply drafts in the reviewer’s language and an alert when a 1–3★ review lands. The playbook is in how to get more Google reviews.

Solo covers one location for $19 a month ($149 billed yearly) and shows the widget with no ReputeMap link. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial: card required, cancel anytime, and your first location connects in about 3 minutes. Compare the plans.