Google Searches

  • Resolved buildblog

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    1 month, 1 week ago

    I’d like to add the reviews I have for my services in the Google search findings. When you perform a search, some websites show their Google reviews as part of the search result – i.e. the ‘stars’ review. Does your plugin enable me to do that for my website? I’ve added a Google reviews page to my site. Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author richplugins

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    Hi @buildblog,

    If you’re asking about can Google index reviews like a content of your website, the answer is yes, because it’s a plugin and it shows HTML like a part of your site which of course indexed.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter buildblog

    (@buildblog)

    No, sorry I don’t mean that.

    When you do a Google search, sometimes under the website link you see the Google Reviews in the search listing.

    It shows the average rating and number of Google reviews in brackets.

    And sometimes, it doesn’t.

    Can your plugin help make that happen for websites?

    Thanks.

    Plugin Author richplugins

    (@richplugins)

    Hi @buildblog,

    Thank you for clarification. It seems you mean a Rich Snippets.

    At the moment, it’s not an option of the business plugin (the free didn’t have this at all) since 2019 due Google’s limitation. According to the changes in Sep 2019, Google forbidden a LocalBusiness and Organisation schema type in the Rich Snippets for all sites except a listing/directory-sites (like Yelp or Facebook), according to this it’s not possible to use in the business plugin.

    Here is a source:

    https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/making-review-rich-results-more-helpful.html

    Also Google disallows using other schema types like Product, Book or Recipe for Google map reviews. Because these types should be described about a specific item, not reviews for a company, service or some business.

    However, some other competition plugins have such a workaround, I mean use a Product schema type for a map reviews, unfortunately, Google can mark the page with this markup like a spammy rating and drop from a search. We can’t take that risk and didn’t add this workaround to our plugin.

    Thanks!

    • This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by richplugins.
    Thread Starter buildblog

    (@buildblog)

    Ah – ok. Thanks for replying.

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