How to use Review Widgets to boost sales

Written by Victoria Csiga
Reviewed and updated by
Gabor Molnar on April 26, 2024

In this post, we will show you how to create review widgets and start generating more trust and sales than ever before!

Why use Google Review Widgets?

To display your best reviews, join the 17.000 websites currently using our review widgets and increase your sales by up to 20%.

In addition to increasing your sales, the widget will also help you increase customer trust and conversions and also help you collect new reviews.

Google is our most popular platform and it’s proven that Google reviews have the biggest impact on sales. Therefore, we recommend that you focus on Google reviews and collect and display them on your website.

The best review widgets to use

Slider I. with header

The slider I. -with header is our most popular product – because with this header you can not only display your ratings but it also helps you to collect them.

It’s also important to note that all of our widgets are fully mobile responsive – so they also help to increase conversions and sales for mobile visitors.

NEW LAYOUT: Slider I. with AI summary

One of our most exciting features is the new review widget layout: Slider I. with AI summary.

This layout provides you with a short summary created by ChatGPT in the first review card of your slider widget. It summarizes the content of your reviews displayed in your widget in just one sentence – giving your visitors a taste of what they can read about in your reviews.

It’s especially beneficial to use this layout when you have reviews with long texts.

Check out all the widget types!

Widget Layouts

Display your reviews with our beautiful, easy-to-integrate and mobile responsive widgets. Choose from various layouts and pre-designed styles & customize to your liking with the Style Editor.

Slider

Sidebar

List

Grid

Floating

Button

Badge

How to create a review widget

This is how you can create the most popular review widget:

1) Add a new review widget

After logging in to your Trustindex account, navigate to the Widget Configurator Menu and choose Review Widgets. In the review widgets menu, click on the Add button.

2) Select widget layout

You have several options as we currently offer over 35 different layouts using the following schemas:

slider,
list,
grid,
masonry,
sidebar,
button,
badge,
and floating widgets.

To select the layout of the widget, just click on the green Select button.

3) Choose your widget style

Currently, we offer over 25 pre-designed widget styles.

Our most popular style is ‘Light background’ – which is currently used by over 8000 businesses.

But if you have a dark or black website, you can find a style that suits you at the bottom of the page.

Simply click on Select again.

4) Customize with Style Editor

After this, you will be taken to the style editor of your widget. Here you can make changes in Your widget’s functionality and design settings.

The Main features are:

The rating filter, which you can set to display only your 5-star ratings
The language of reviews, which can be set to the one your website uses
The ‘Translate reviews’ feature can be turned on so that your reviews will be translated into the language of your choosing
With the Rich Snippets setting, your ratings can be displayed on the Google search results list.

Our Other features include:

Review Filter settings, where you can choose the review platform source, number of reviews, order, and so on.
Header settings – the header can be turned on or off easily
Card Format settings – the review card elements can be adjusted
Navigation – you can change the way your widget moves
Style & Color settings – you can further personalize the color scheme and style of the widget
And Other settings, where you can choose the refresh rate of your review widget.

After making any modifications, take a look at the widget preview on the right to make sure it is up to your liking.