How to Embed Your Google My Business Reviews to Your Website

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Hello, and welcome! In this tutorial we'll be going over how to obtain and connect your Google API. The Google API is free for $200 worth of API calls per month. In addition, we cache API calls within SMB reviewers, so it's almost impossible that you'll hit that number of API calls. So you shouldn't worry about having to pay unless possibly you're an enterprise application with hundreds of thousands, or millions of views to your webpages and applications. . Click on "settings" on the left-hand menu, and click on the "Google" tab from the drop down menu. You will see a page that will ask for a Google Places API number. Don't worry, we're going to guide you step by step with obtaining this from your Google account, not to mention, it's also free.

In a separate tab, start by going to https://console.cloud.google.com. Before we continue, this is just a reminder that you may also choose to upgrade your plan to our unlimited plan. Then you will be able to use our APIs and not worry about doing any sort of setup, or account limitations.

You will need to sign into your Google account, if you're not already signed in. If you don't have an account, you'll need to create one.

If this is your first time accessing your cloud console, wait a moment for the terms to display, select your country, and agree to them.

Start by clicking select a project in the top blue bar. Don't click on the dropdown arrow, just on the words.

Select "New Project" in the top-right corner.

Good! Now give your project a relevant name, and click "create."

Once you created your project, you need to access your project either from the blue bar, or from the notification that displays. Select your project now.

Now open the menu by clicking on the 3-bar icon on the very left of the blue bar. Select or Click on APIs & Services.

Once your on the APIs & Services dashboard, you'll need to enable APIs and Services. Click on the blue "Enable APIs and Services" link, next to the APIs and Services headline.

Okay my friend, don't forget to use the restroom, or to drink water. We are about half-way done. Now we'll need to enable our credentials. Click on the 3-bar symbol in the top blue header, on the left. Just under billing, roll over APIs and Services with your mouse, and select credentials.

Once on the credential screen, then you must elect to create credentials by clicking on the "create credentials" link, and then clicking on "API Key."

Now your API key is created. Great! You can copy this API key now and save it somewhere handy, or you can do so later, as we'll need to paste it into the SMB reviewer application. But for now, go ahead and click "Close."

We are almost done, hang in there! we'll need to enable which API libraries we'll use. Click on the 3-bar symbol in the top blue header, on the left. Just under billing, roll over APIs and Services with your mouse, and select "library."

Next, search for "maps javascript API," it'll appear in the results as you type. Then click on it.

On this screen, all you need to do is click "enable." You will be redirected to the Maps Javascript API options from here.

After you're redirected to the "Maps Javascript API" options screen, we'll need to enable one more API. Go ahead and click on "Library" on the left hand menu, second from the top.

In the search, type in "places API." Select "Places API" from the results.

Now enable Places API, you'll be redirected to the Places API options page.

Congratulations! All we need to do now is to take our API key, and paste it into SMB reviewer. However, if you don't have your billing account setup, then it won't work. Let's make sure that your billing account is setup in order to ensure that your Google account is complete. | Click on the 3-bar symbol in the top blue header, on the left. then click on billing,

You'll need to link your project to a billing account. Click on "link a billing account."

Assuming that you don't have a billing account. Go ahead and create a billing account. After you're done, we'll go back and grab our API key.

We're in the final stretch! We just need to copy our API key, and paste it into SMB reviewer. Click on the 3-bar symbol in the top blue header, roll over APIs and Services, select "dashboard."

Click on the "credentials" option on the left hand menu. Once the page loads, find your API key that you created, and click the "copy key" logo. Your key will be copied and ready to paste. Next we'll need to go back into our SMB reviewer application, and paste the API code into the app.

Next we'll need to go back into our SMB reviewer application, and paste the API code into settings, then Google. Make sure to click save.

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