Lately I have been posting about different Rich Text markups which
can help Google in displaying your Blog beautifully on Google Search
Pages. Here is another one which would be useful to people who write
review products like Gadgets, Movies, Games etc. This won’t be useful to
any one else out there
Here is a screenshot of how the Review data would appear on Google Search Results
The Search Snippet will display the rating provided by the author
along with the name of the author and the date on which he made the
review. Google picks up this Data from the Rich Text Markups that you
add to your Review Post. This kind of a review is termed as
individual review
or you can call it as the post author’s review The aggregate review
based on user feedback is not yet possible on Blogger as blogger doesn’t
have a proper mechanism to collect feedbacks from the readers.
This is the minimal(not exactly) Markup required to display review information in Google Search.
<div class="hreview">
<span class="item">
<span class="fn">Name of the Product you are reviewing</span><br/>
</span>
Reviewed by <span class="reviewer">Your Name</span>
on <span class="dtreviewed"> Jan 6 2012<span title="2012-01-06" class="value-title">
</span><br/>
</span>
Rating: <span class="rating">4.5</span>
</div>
Paste this snippet to the end of your Review Post after editing it properly.To paste this snippet you will have to switch to the
HTML mode of the Blogger Post Editor. Also make sure that you have added a
jump break
in your post somewhere before this review snippet.This step is
important and if you miss this, it will lead to multiple reviews on the
same page. The data in red should be edited and I think all of it is
pretty much self explanatory. The rating can be provided out of 5. Once
you publish the post, you can see a preview of the Review Snippet by
using the
Google Rich Snippets Testing tool.
Note: If you are using different Rich Text markups,
all of them one be displayed on Google at once. So you have to choose
based on the data that you would want to be displayed on Google Search.
You can play around with the Snippet Testing tool and customize it in
the way you like it to be displayed.
Adding this markup doesn’t guarantee that the Review data will be
displayed on Google. But it is most likely that it would be displayed
provided you have a quality blog.
