You've collected loads of positive App Store Reviews. Great job!
Now you want to add them to your Squarespace website. But if you're not a developer or you've never done this before, knowing where to start can be difficult.
In this guide, we'll show you how you can add App Store Reviews to your website in 3 easy steps using a free tool called Senja.
This step-by-step guide will help you get up and running in the next 5-10 minutes. Let's get into it.
Why embed App Store Reviews on Squarespace?
One word, credibility.
Adding App Store Reviews to Squarespace provides instant social proof, enhances your SEO, increases trust and credibility, and leads to higher conversion rates.
It allows potential customers to see real opinions about your products or services directly on your site. It also improves your search engine rankings, getting you more traffic.
What is Senja?
Senja is a free tool that makes it easy to collect, manage and share your testimonials anywhere on the web.
Senja comes with 100s of ways to share your testimonials for free, including review widgets (ex. review sliders, carousels and walls), testimonials images, rich snippets and Walls of Love. With Senja, you can easily add a App Store Reviews feed to any website without a single line of code or custom plugins.
In this guide, we'll use one of their free review widgets to add your App Store Reviews to your Squarespace website, no plugins required!
How it works
Create a Senja account and import your App Store Reviews
Create a free and customizable testimonial widget that matches your brand
Add it to your Squarespace website by copying and pasting the embed code
Step 1: Import your testimonials
Visit the Senja dashboard and sign up for an account. It's free and only takes 2 minutes.
Visit the Senja dashboard and sign up for an account. It's free and only takes 2 minutes.
Now search for all your reviews and testimonials by pasting the url of your App Store listing. An example would be https://apps.apple.com/us/app/arc-mobile-companion/id1669785846
You can import reviews from other countries by changing the country code after "apps.apple.com." For example, https://apps.apple.com/uk/app/arc-mobile-companion/id1669785846
Not sure where to find the url?
Search for your app in the app store's app on mac or ios
Right click on the app (or click on the share icon if you're on mobile) and select the "copy link" option.
Click on the "Get Testimonials" button and select the testimonials you want to add to your Senja account.
Now you should see all the App Store Reviews you imported in your Senja account. That's all for step one! Now let's add your App Store Reviews to your Squarespace website.🎉
Step 2. Create a widget for your App Store Reviews
Now that you've imported your testimonials, you can finally add them to your website.
To do this, we'll create a Senja widget. Don't worry, the process will only take a couple minutes.
To get started, click on the Studio button in the Senja sidebar.
Immediately, you'll see all the sharing options available in Senja.
Other than embedding your App Store Reviews on your Squarespace website, Senja lets you create beautiful images you can post on social media, as well as stunning Walls of Love that you can use to showcase your best App Store Reviews.
Since we're trying to embed App Store Reviews on our website, let's click on the widgets tab.
Now you can select a widget template you want. For this example, I'll use this grid widget.
I want to put my App Store Reviews on my home page, so I'll call this widget "Home Page Testimonials" and hit the "Create Widget" button.
And you're done! Now you already have this beautiful testimonial widget that you can add to any page of your website.
Senja has dozens of templates and customization options to choose from. You can pick any of them and see how your widget looks.
You can also customize the colors (background color, link color, text color etc), shape and style of any widget to match your website's design perfectly 🎨
Step 3: Embed the widget on your website
Senja integrates with every website builder that supports custom HTML or URL embeds, including Squarespace.
We have detailed instructions for the most popular website builders like WordPress, Webflow, Wix and Squarespace.
Check out our help center to learn how to install it on your website builder.To get started, click on the share button at the top-right of the page.Now copy the embed code you see on the screen.
In Senja
Click on the share button at the top-right of the Senja testimonial widget studio.
A panel will open up that'll show you how to share your widget.
Copy the code.
In Squarespace
Visit the Squarespace dashboard and click on the site you want to add your testimonial widget to.
Click on the "Pages" tab on the sidebar.
Click on the page you want to add your widget to. In this case, we'll be adding our testimonial widget to our home page.
Click on the edit button to edit the page.
Scroll to the section you want to add your Senja testimonials widget to then click on the "Add block" button.
Select the "Embed" block.
Place the embed block where you want your testimonial widget to be on the page. In the content panel of the embed, click on "Code Snippet."
Click on the "embed data" and then paste your Senja embed code. You may need to publish your site first for the testimonial widget to show up.
Click save and publish your website.
Now your testimonial widget should show up on your Squarespace site.