You've collected loads of positive Yelp 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 Yelp 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 Yelp Reviews on Squarespace?
One word, credibility.
Adding Yelp 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 Yelp 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 Yelp Reviews to your Squarespace website, no plugins required!
How it works
Create a Senja account and import your Yelp 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.
Now search for your Yelp business by typing in the URL of your Yelp page.
Senja will use this to find all your Yelp reviews.
Click on the "Get Testimonials" button and select the testimonials you want to add to your Senja account.
If you want Senja to keep your Yelp in sync, click on the "Auto-sync new testimonials" checkbox. This way, all new testimonials that people leave on your Yelp listing will show up in your Senja account and testimonial embeds.
Now you should see all the Yelp Reviews you imported in your Senja account. That's all for step one! Now let's add your Yelp Reviews to your Squarespace website.🎉
Step 2. Create a widget for your Yelp 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 Yelp 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 Yelp Reviews.
Since we're trying to embed Yelp 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 Yelp 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.
