How to Add Google Reviews to GoDaddy (Free, No App Needed)

GoDaddy sites tend to belong to people who have a business to run, not a website to tinker with. That is exactly who benefits most from putting Google reviews on the page, because the proof does the selling while you are busy doing the work.

There are two ways to add Google reviews to GoDaddy. One is a section GoDaddy built into its editor. The other is one line of code in an HTML section. This guide walks through both, explains the one quirk that clips widgets on GoDaddy, and tells you which route fits which site.

Two Ways to Show Google Reviews on GoDaddy

GoDaddy is unusual among website builders because it ships a review section of its own. Most of the platforms we have covered, from Wix to Webflow, leave you to paste code or buy an app.

So the first decision is which route to take:

The built-in section wins on simplicity. The widget wins on control. Plenty of sites use the first for a few months and switch to the second when they want a service page to show only the reviews about that service.

Option 1: GoDaddy's Built-In Reviews Section

GoDaddy's help center puts it plainly: "Display up to 9 reviews on your Websites + Marketing site to build confidence in your business." The section can connect to "Facebook, Google Business Profile, Yelp (where available) or Yotpo," or you can type reviews in by hand.

Here is the sequence, following GoDaddy's own steps:

1. Sign in to GoDaddy and open your product page. Expand Websites + Marketing and select Manage next to your site.
2. Go to the page where you want the reviews. Add a section, search for Reviews, and select Add.
3. Under the connected account options, choose to connect an external source and select Google Business Profile. If your profile is not yet linked to GoDaddy, link it first under Marketing, then Social, which is where GoDaddy keeps its Google connection.
4. Drag the reviews into the order you want. GoDaddy lets you "reorder a review by selecting the horizontal lines and dragging it to your preferred position."
5. Preview, then publish. Changes save automatically, so publishing is the only step that makes them public.

Two limits are worth knowing before you commit. GoDaddy states that "recently written reviews will take up to 48 hours to appear," so a glowing review from this morning will not be on your site today. And the 9-review cap means a business with 200 reviews shows the same small set to every visitor on every page.

If those two limits do not bother you, stop here. You are done, and the section looks native because it is.

Option 2: Embed a Google Reviews Widget in an HTML Section

The second route gives you more reviews, more layouts, and the ability to show different reviews on different pages. It starts with one line of code.

Get your embed code

1. Open the reviews widget builder and search your business name and city. It matches your Google Business Profile and previews your real rating and recent reviews.
2. Pick a layout. A carousel or badge suits a homepage; a grid or list suits a dedicated reviews page. Choose a light or dark theme to match your GoDaddy template.
3. Copy the single line of code it generates. That script tag is the whole integration.

Add the HTML section in GoDaddy

GoDaddy's help article on custom code describes the HTML section as the place for "HTML, CSS and JavaScript" that extends your site "with such things as custom forms, maps and special-function buttons." A reviews widget is exactly that kind of thing.

1. In the editor, go to the page and spot where the reviews should sit and add a section.
2. Search for the HTML section and select Add.
3. Paste your embed code into the Custom Code field.
4. Set the title, accent color, and alignment if you want the section to carry a heading like "What customers say."
5. Leave Forced Height blank for now. GoDaddy's instruction is to "leave Forced Height blank for auto-height or set a specific height in pixels," and auto-height is the right first try.
6. Preview, check desktop and mobile, and publish.

One GoDaddy-specific warning from the same help page: "A height of 0 pixels is equivalent to deleting the section." If you type a zero while experimenting, the section disappears, so start from blank and only add a number if you need one.

If HTML does not appear when you search the section list, your plan does not include custom code. GoDaddy's help articles do not publish a per-plan breakdown for the HTML section, so the search box in your own editor is the honest test. The built-in Reviews section is your route in that case.

The GoDaddy Quirk: Your Widget Lives in an iframe

This is the detail most tutorials skip, and it explains nearly every "my reviews are cut off" complaint on GoDaddy.

GoDaddy's troubleshooting page for custom code states that the embed "is placed inside of an iframe" and warns that, because of this, the widget "may not be responsive" even when the original content is. An iframe is a sealed box on the page. The widget renders perfectly inside it, but the box does not always grow to fit its content the way a WordPress block does.

Three habits make this a non-issue:

• Prefer fixed-height layouts. A carousel, slider, or badge takes the same height no matter how long individual reviews run. A tall grid or masonry layout varies with review length, which makes it the layout most likely to clip inside a frame.
• Size generously, then trim. If auto-height clips the widget, enter a Forced Height taller than you think you need, publish, look at the live page, and pull it in. GoDaddy's own advice for widgets that change size is to force "a value that can accommodate these changes," and for a widget that does not show at all, to "set its height to a higher value."
• Check the published page on a phone. Most of your visitors are on mobile. A frame that fits on a laptop can clip on a narrow screen, so test both before you call it finished.

Two more notes from GoDaddy's troubleshooting page. The embed must use HTTPS, because "support for HTTP is not guaranteed," and any reputable widget already does. And since the code runs in an iframe, anything inside it is not part of your page's own HTML, which matters for the SEO question below.

If you have used Wix, this will feel familiar. Wix runs pasted code in a sandboxed frame too, and the Wix version of this guide covers the same fixes in that editor.

Where to Put Google Reviews on a GoDaddy Site

Placement does more work than layout. A review beside the button that asks for money or a booking beats the same review on a Testimonials page nobody visits.

• Homepage: a carousel directly under the hero, or a compact badge beside your main call to action, so proof sits next to the decision.
• Service pages: the highest-value spot. Put the widget near the quote or booking button. With a free account you can filter by keyword, so the roof repair page shows roof repair reviews and the gutter page shows gutter reviews.
• Contact and booking pages: a badge near the form reassures visitors at the moment second thoughts creep in.

GoDaddy sections are per page, so you will add the HTML section to each page you want it on. Each copy can carry a different keyword filter, which is the main reason to prefer the widget over the built-in section on a multi-service site. For the page-by-page logic, see our guide to where to put reviews on your website so they convert.

On GoDaddy Managed WordPress Instead?

GoDaddy also sells WordPress hosting, and the two products are different editors. If your site is WordPress, none of the section instructions above apply, and there is no iframe to size.

On WordPress you paste the same embed code into a Custom HTML block, or install the free ReplyOnTheFly Widget for Google Reviews plugin from the WordPress.org directory. The plugin writes your latest reviews into the page HTML itself, so crawlers that do not run JavaScript can read them. The full walkthrough is in our guide to adding Google reviews to WordPress.

Will Google Reviews Help Your GoDaddy SEO?

Be precise here, because many widget sales pages are not.

Your Google Business Profile reviews will not earn star ratings in the search results. Google's review snippet documentation says that when the business being reviewed controls the reviews about itself, those reviews are ineligible for the star feature, whether they are added "either directly in their structured data or through an embedded third-party widget."

On GoDaddy specifically, the HTML section's iframe means the review text is not part of your page's own HTML, so do not count it as on-page content for search. The built-in Reviews section renders as part of the page, which is a point in its favor if that matters to you. Either way, the reviews that move your rankings are the ones on your Google Business Profile itself: their count, their recency, and your replies.

Treat the widget as on-page proof for visitors who are already there. For the full picture, see do reviews on your website help SEO, and for the structured-data rules in depth, review schema markup.

Troubleshooting: Google Reviews Not Showing on GoDaddy

Nearly every report comes down to one of these:

1. You are looking at the editor, not the published site. Preview the page or publish and open it in a new tab. Judge the widget live.
2. The section is too short. Enter a larger Forced Height, publish, and check again. Do not enter zero; that deletes the section.
3. The code got truncated. The embed is one script tag, so a missing closing bracket kills it. Re-copy it fresh from the widget builder.
4. You pasted into a text section. A text section prints the code as words. Delete it and paste into an HTML section instead.
5. The built-in section is missing a new review. That is the 48-hour lag GoDaddy describes. Wait a day or two, or switch to the widget, which refreshes daily.
6. Only five reviews show in the widget. That is not a bug. Without a connected account, Google's public API supplies five reviews of its choosing. A free account unlocks your full synced library.

The Bottom Line

Your Google reviews are the strongest sales copy you did not have to write, and by default they live on a page you do not control. On GoDaddy you can move them onto your own site in a few minutes, with or without code.

Key Takeaways:

• GoDaddy's built-in Reviews section connects to your Google Business Profile and shows up to 9 reviews, with new ones appearing within 48 hours. It is the fastest route and looks native.
• An HTML section with one line of widget code shows up to 50 reviews with a free account, offers six layouts, and lets each page show the reviews that fit it.
• GoDaddy runs HTML sections inside an iframe. Prefer fixed-height layouts, set a generous Forced Height if anything clips, and never enter zero.
• Your Google Business Profile reviews will not earn stars in search results, since Google treats self-displayed reviews as ineligible. The widget is on-page proof, not SEO.
• On GoDaddy Managed WordPress, use a Custom HTML block or our free plugin instead; there is no iframe to size.

Building on another platform too? We have step-by-step guides for WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, and Webflow, and the complete guide to Google reviews on your website covers the whole picture.

Once your reviews are on your site, the next lever is collecting more of them. Start with our guide to getting more Google reviews, and if you would rather not write the replies yourself, create a free account and each new review arrives in your inbox with a ready-to-send draft.

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