Yelp Review Widget for Blogger — Free, Fills Yelp's Embed Gap
BlooTrue's Yelp Review Widget for Blogger is a free embed that displays your Yelp reviews on any Blogger blog (.blogspot.com or custom-domain) via the Layout HTML/JavaScript gadget or by switching a post to HTML view. Yelp does not provide an official embed widget for merchants — its Fusion API is gated for partner apps. The Blogger HTML/JavaScript Layout gadget is the cleanest way to surface a free Yelp profile's reviews on a blog, and BlooTrue fills that gap by pulling reviews from any public Yelp business page and turning them into a paste-ready Blogger embed. The Blogger free plan supports this fully — there is no upgrade, no premium tier, and no third-party Blogger app store install because Blogger has no marketplace. The Layout gadget approach places the widget sitewide (sidebar / footer / header) in one paste and avoids the editor-state quirk where Bloggers Compose view can auto-escape pasted HTML when you toggle back from HTML view. The inline post-HTML approach is for cases where you only want reviews to appear inside one specific article — paste while in HTML view, save from HTML view, then view the live post. Schema.org Review + AggregateRating JSON-LD is added on top of Bloggers stock theme schema (Article, BlogPosting) — cleanly, without conflict — giving your blog two independent structured-data signals on the same page.
How to embed Yelp reviews on Blogger in 60 seconds
- Paste your Yelp business URL (yelp.com/biz/your-business-slug) into the configurator above.
- Pick a widget style and customize colors, theme, and layout.
- Click Copy Code to get the one-line HTML embed.
- Sitewide: open blogger.com → Layout, click Add a Gadget, choose HTML/JavaScript, paste the embed code, and click Save.
- Inline post: open Posts → Edit, switch from Compose to HTML view, paste in the post body, save and view from HTML view directly.
Why doesn't Yelp have an official embed for Blogger?
Yelp's Fusion API is positioned as a partner-channel product (used by sites like Apple Maps and Trivago) rather than as a merchant self-service product. Yelp does not publish a paste-ready embed widget the way Trustpilot publishes TrustBox or Google publishes Place Cards. Third-party widgets pasted into Bloggers HTML/JavaScript Layout gadget are the standard way Blogger blogs surface their Yelp reviews — BlooTrue is the free option in that category.
