Wednesday, February 29, 2012

How To Show Review Star Rating In Google Search Result

Author: Gagan Masoun
How To Show Review Star Rating In Google Search ResultThis tutorial will tell you How To Show Review Star Rating In Google Search Result. Many times when you search something in Google, you see the star ratings below the website title. We also want this feature on our websites and blogs.

This is too easy to add in your blog or website. If you have a wordpress blog then you can easily add this feature on your blog or website with using wordpress plugin. This will give extra look to your website in Google search result.This will increase visitors to your website or blog. Because of in terms of of ratings right with in the Google search results.Google requires to add rich snippets markup for review to your site to achieve this.But if you don't want to add this via manual way, then you can add this code automatically with using wordpress plugin.

How To Show Review Star Rating In Google Search Result

WordPress Plugin To Show Review Star Rating In Google Search Result

Just download this plugin and install in your plugin section of wordpress blog. Plugin name is Author hReview.

You can install the Author hReview wordpress plugin either from the Install Plugins screen itself. Or, you can also download the plugin from here.

After installing and activating the Author hReview plugin, go to plugin section to set the plugin options. You can also choose to display the review rating stars on blog's home page and single post.
How To Show Review Star Rating In Google Search Result
While writing a review post, you must fill up the Review Settings fields which you will find just below post editing box. Easily fill up the product name, URL, author name etc.

Once the post is published, you will be able to see the review box within post content as well as review stars rating in the beginning of post excerpt on home page (if you have chosen so).
How To Show Review Star Rating In Google Search Result

Testing Google Rich Snippets for Reviews

You can verify your changes with using plugin with the help of Google rich snippets testing tool.This will just verify the everything which you have previously done.

How To Show Review Star Rating In Google Search Result

Google Request Form to show Review Stars Rating from your website

The next step is that you need to request Google to include your blog for showing review stars rating within Google search result. You can make a request to Google using this form easily.There is no guarantee that Google will accept your request. 

If you have any problem regarding this plugin, You can contact with plugin owner or ask the questions with in comment box below.

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