Your business website serves as your virtual storefront, and creating a stellar first impression is absolutely essential. Incorporating customer reviews on your site not only draws in potential customers but also establishes your business as a reliable and trustworthy choice. These reviews act as social proof, smoothing the decision-making process and boosting your business.

Birdeye's review widgets offer businesses the power to tailor them according to their unique needs and align them with their company's brand and website. These widgets are highly responsive, featuring pre-defined, web-accessible color schemes while also allowing complete customization of colors and headings. This flexibility ensures that your website looks great and perfectly reflects your brand.

TYPES OF WIDGET

1. Badge- displays highlights your rating from reviews It offers a concise representation of overall sentiment and reputation at a glance.

• Normal badge
• Certificate badge

2. Feed- displays individual, detailed customer reviews, allowing others to read and gain insights into individual experiences with a product, service, or business. It offers a comprehensive view of diverse perspectives and opinions.

• Normal feed scrolls vertically 

There are also other alternative widgets that serve the same purpose in other form factors, such as:

• Rotating
• Slider
• Grid

3. Review us buttons- clickable prompts placed on websites, encouraging customers to leave reviews. It is a direct and convenient way to stimulate the generation of reviews, enhancing a business's online reputation.

OVERALL FEATURES OF WIDGETS

Here are some features that are common to all widgets:

• Widgets come in various sizes and shapes, offering different form factors to suit your needs.
• They provide predefined web-accessible color options, ensuring your widget aligns with your website's aesthetics.
• You can easily customize the widgets' text and background colors to match your branding.
• Some widgets include 'Review us' buttons, allowing you to customize their color to blend with your design seamlessly.
• All widgets offer the flexibility to personalize the heading, ensuring it aligns with your website's style.
• You have the choice to display either all reviews or only featured reviews on these widgets.
• The option to show or hide responses is available for certain widgets, 
• Widgets allow you to select review sources, giving you control over which reviews are displayed.

STEPS TO INSTALL

Follow these steps to configure the Birdeye Review Widget on your business website.

• On the Birdeye dashboard, click on the ‘Settings’ icon.
• If you’re a single location user, navigate to ‘Reviews’ and click ‘On Website.’
• If you’re a multi-location user, go to 'Settings' and select 'Business' under the 'Business info' tab. 
• Select the desired location. Hover over ‘Reviews’ and click on ‘On Website.’ 

• Choose your widget type from the drop-down menu.
• To show responses, click on the toggle button.
• Toggle ON web-accessible colors for predefined color options. If you want to customize the color, turn OFF the toggle, allowing you to personalize the background, text and button colors to align with your brand.
• Toggle ON Display featured reviews to show only featured reviews. To include all reviews, turn this OFF.
• Select the review sources from the drop-down button. 

• Once configured, copy the code displayed and share it with your web developer to embed on your website.
• Click on the ‘Email’ button, enter the recipient's email address and forward the code.
• Click ‘Save.' The widget will be available on your website.

A brief description of the layout for each widget.

HOW DOES EMBEDDING BIRDEYE WIDGET HELP BUSINESSES?

Embedding Birdeye widget and displaying reviews on business websites:

1. Works like referrals and converts customers faster.
2. Offers a better understanding of the product.
3. Subtly illustrate the benefits of using your product.
4. Helps in building an emotional connection with the customers.
5. Helps customers see the real you and the hidden value of your product. 

BENEFITS:

1. Attract prospects
2. Make you look trustworthy
3. Ease in decision making

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