April 8, 2014

How to Display hReview Markup Star Rating In Google Search Results of your Blog

Getting popular in Google with Authorship is one of the best and efficient methods where you can get featured. But that’s not the only way to get featured. While searching in Google, you might come across ratings below the SEO Title, Permalink and just above Meta description. The person who is searching in Google checks for the accurate results and then goes for the site which has 5 star rating.

star-ratings-in-blogger

Let me go in detail, review markups is the permit that will make your website different from everyone else. Just like the Google Verified Author has significance in SERP (Google Authorship), in the same way, Review markups provide reputable impact to the people who search in Google.

What is Review Mark Up?

In layman terms, Review Markups are also known as the Search Engine Star Rating System which creates a positive impact in the minds of people who search in Google. This Review Markup also turns your website to stand out in the search results. So, if you are willing to improve the appearance of your blog in Google Search engine, then Review Star Markups is the receipt to get yourself highlighted in search results as it is very eye-catchy and the person who is searching for content gets an impression to check into your site.

Why Should we Need Review Markup for our Blog?

There are many aspects by Review Markup which do play a key role in determining your site. Some of them are mentioned below.

  • By adding review markups in a certain post, you are indicating the visitors that the article is parked in a trusted blog.
  • The information updated in the Blog is genuine and worth reading.
  • You will receive more traffic because you have a unique presentation in the SERP with Review Markups.
  • Review Star Markups is the receipt to get yourself highlighted in search results as it is very eye-catchy and person searching for content gets an impression to check into your site.

How to Install Review Markup in Blogger Post :

In Blogger, everything is to be worked out with HTML codes but in WordPress, its a simple ball game where we have to just install the plugin. However, blogger doesn’t have robust plugins and so here we will take help of chunk of HTML coding.

Step 1: Open Blogger Dashboard

Login to your Blogger account in Gmail. Open a Post you require to get rated and then Goto HTML tab

HTML-code-for-post

Step 2: Copy and Paste the HTML code

Copy and paste the HTML Code in the HTML Tab at the end of the post as shown. The code is given below. Just copy and paste the code and change the Name Of The Post , Reviewer Name , Date Format to YYYY-MM-DD , and Your Rating.

<div class="hreview"> <span class="item"> <span class="fn">Name-Of-The-Post</span><br/> </span> Reviewed by <span class="reviewer">Reviewer-Name</span>on <span class="dtreviewed">Jul 07 1995<span title="YYYY-MM-DD" class="value-title"></span><br/> </span> Rating: <span class="rating">Your-Rating</span></div>

Step 3 : Check in Google Rich Snippets

Check your post in Google Rich Snippets Tool to see how your post result will look in Google. All you need is to copy your link URL and paste in the Check box in Snippets Tool

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So, this is the way to Display hReview Markup Star Rating In Google Search Results of your Blog

 

About the author 

Imran Uddin


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