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Share a Review Image to Google

What happens when you share a review image to Google from Social share: the checks, the outcome in the window, and the post it leaves under Posts.

Feature overview: Google Business Profile Posts

Sharing a review image to Google goes through Publishing. The image becomes a Google post with a history, a clear outcome and the same text checks as every other post.

Open Display -> Social Proof -> Social share, design the image, click Share and pick the Google tab.

What happens when you press Share

  • The caption and the button are checked against Google's rules before the image is rendered. A phone number or email address in the caption is refused with the reason
  • The image is saved to the location's Media library
  • Publishing is turned on for the location the first time you share, if it is not on already
  • The post is released at once by the person who shared it, and the window shows the outcome: Published on Google., Google is reviewing this post. It usually goes live within a few minutes., This post needs attention before it can go to Google. or Couldn't publish to Google.
  • If it takes longer, the window says Still publishing. You can close this window, the post keeps going.
  • After a failure, Edit and try again withdraws the failed post and lets you change the caption or the button
  • The post appears under Posts with its history. Open in Posts goes straight to it
  • Shared posts do not count toward Posts per location per month
Worth knowing

This is a customer-side screen. Because you are in your agency account, you can reach it two ways: go to Business -> Customers -> Manage Customers and click Open dashboard on the customer: you go into their dashboard with nothing locked, even features their plan hides, and a bar at the top shows whose dashboard you are in (handy for done-for-you setups or granting access beyond a plan); or choose View as customer on the same page to see their dashboard exactly as they see it, with their plan's limits. If your sidebar shows the Agency / Customer switcher, the Customer tab plus the location switcher is a shortcut to the same place.

Buttons and text

  • Buttons: Learn more, Book, Order, Shop, Sign up and Call. Call uses the phone number on the Business Profile and needs no link
  • Hashtags are left out of Google posts
  • The post is written in the business's post language, not the language your dashboard is shown in
  • Who can share is unchanged: the Social share permission, as before. Facebook and Instagram sharing are unchanged

Common questions