Can I link my Facebook reviews to Google?
By Zyff
Short answer
No. There is no way to import Facebook recommendations into your Google Business Profile, and they do not contribute to your Google star rating. The two platforms hold separate review sets written by separate people, and neither offers a transfer, a sync or an integration for them.
What you can do is show both on your own website, side by side, which is where the reviews influence a buying decision anyway. Anyone offering to move reviews between platforms is describing something the platforms do not permit.
Why no tool can do this
A review on Google is attached to a Google account that wrote it, about a place in Google's index. The rating on your profile is computed by Google from those reviews and nothing else. There is no field for an imported review, because a review whose author Google cannot verify is exactly what its rating system exists to exclude.
The same is true in reverse — Google reviews cannot be pushed to Facebook. This is a deliberate design decision by both companies, not a gap waiting for an integration.
What does carry across, and what does not
It is worth being precise about the parts, because some of it genuinely does help.
- Your Google star rating — Google reviews only. Nothing else affects it.
- Your Facebook recommendation percentage — Facebook recommendations only.
- Rich-result stars in Google search — not available for a business's own reviews of itself, from any source.
- The impression a visitor forms on your website — every review you show them, from any platform. This is the one you control.
What to do instead
Show both sets on your site as two clearly separate blocks. Keeping them visually distinct is the point: 'here is what people say about us on Google, and here is what they say on Facebook' is a stronger claim than one merged wall, and it does not require you to invent a combined score.
Then ask for reviews on the platform where you have fewest. A widget with a call-to-action button pointing at your reviews page is the cheapest way to do that, because it asks the person who has just finished reading good things about you.
And do not try to fix it with structured data
The tempting shortcut is to publish combined star-rating markup on your website spanning both platforms, hoping stars appear in search results. Reviews you publish about your own business are self-serving review markup; Google's documentation names it explicitly, and the penalty is a manual action against your domain. The stars will not appear, and the site will be worse off than before.
Facebook Reviews Widget
Show recommendations from your Facebook Page in 6 layouts.
Also asked
- Can Facebook reviews show up on Google?
- Do Facebook reviews count towards my Google rating?
All of these have the same answer, so they share this page rather than each getting a near-identical one of their own.