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benrefurb
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 Posted - 07/11/2012 : 11:37
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Question... I'm seeing my test ratings showing up in google searches. Right under the Blue link and Green URL is a star rating with small orange / gray stars.
That was a pleasant surprise. Can anyone tell me what google is picking up on to display this?
One problem however... it's only showing the most recent review. So if a product has ten 5-star reviews and then a single 1-star it looks like google will claim it has a rating of 1-star.
In fact, in my google search I looked for text from my test 5-star review. The search link description shows the text from my 5 star review but claims it's reviewed at 3-stars by "billy bob"
If someone can point me in the direction to fix this issue (or how to best deal with it) that would be a big help.
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Sinbad
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Posted - 07/11/2012 : 14:41
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Hi I noticed to too and glad to see they are using REAL ratings, unfortunely there isn't a feature to sort the rating highest first. But feel free to put the request in the suggestions forum.
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Marshall
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coastalem
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - 09/28/2012 : 12:25
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Hi, Ok as most readers here know by now I am porting a working site to ECT as soon as this one is ready.
My current platform (hosted ecom type where they control the software/code that affects all users) and they just upgraded version. Anyway, in the latest version I see my review stars showing up in google - Yeah, but hunh...
I am moving my store to ECT and would like to still be able to have this ability (but have no idea what they did to have them show up). I have tried to find ECT info about how to do this which brought me here.
Anyway, is there any more expanded information about how to have the review stars show up using ECT cart.
Hoping perhaps other/s have researched or implemented this and find it is working and can help others/me cut to the chase - so to speak:-)
As in where/what file to add code and the syntax, if it is that easy. Ok, don't laugh at me... :-) One can hope...
ECT latest version, .asp
ETA: did a little research and watched a few vids and seems like you put the schema code on the product detail page???
and I understand the concept now... but what/how do you implement this if your product pages are ECT dynamic links. Does this mean that I need to make the product page I want to add a rich snippet static?
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Edited by - coastalem on 09/28/2012 13:07 |
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Sinbad
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Posted - 09/28/2012 : 14:14
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Hi from what I understand and have tried the rich snippets would have to be added into the incproddetail the problem is when you update it gets overwritten.
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coastalem
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Posted - 09/28/2012 : 15:02
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Thanks Sinbad...
Any more detail about how to find out about this.
I just look at the source for one of my products on the working site that has review star/thing that show in Google and I found this:
<td id="content_area" valign="top" ><div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Review-aggregate">
This is in the source code for my actual product detail page. I see the use data-vocabulary.org?????? for the trigger...
Well, my knowledge search will continue as time allow. Just wanted to know if something can be coded dynamically or if statically on a proddetail page the I need to think ahead and make my most important reviewed items a static page.
Sorry, don't know enough about what I am asking to state it very well...
ETA: Ok looking further down that source code page in the review area of the page it has - note the interscop and itemprop references:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" id="v65-product-reviews">
<tr class="v65-product-reviews-row">
<td class="v65-product-reviews-cell">
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<table style="width: 100%;">
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 160px;">
<span itemprop="rating" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Rating">
<b> <a name="review">Average Customer Review:</b> <img class="vCSS_img_star_avg_rating" src="/v/vspfiles/templates/109/images/star5.gif" alt="" />
<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 9px; position: relative; left: 112px;">
<span itemprop="average">5</span> of <span itemprop="best">5</span>
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</td>
<td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">
<b>| Total Reviews: <span itemprop="votes">6</span></b>
<nobr>
<a href="/ReviewNew.asp?ProductCode=BLD%2DBANK"> Write a review (need to be logged in to your account).</a>
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</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Prod detail pages on that site are dynamic (although can assign seo friendly urls) so still clueless how to get this sort of thing in ECT or the syntax to use. Putting in an inc file is fine as it can be put back in after an update, once the way to do it is known:-) |
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Sinbad
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Posted - 09/28/2012 : 15:54
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Hi I'm afraid custom edits to the core files are out of the scope of the forum you can try checking with one of the third party developers. http://www.ecommercetemplates.com/developers.asp
I really didn't see where it made a difference in seo for the site I tried it on but then they have good seo without it once I updated it was gone  I find spending more time building good content does more.
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benrefurb
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Posted - 09/28/2012 : 16:10
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I'm more concerned about the star rating than SEO for this issue. If google happens to index the site right after a low star review that's what everyone will see.
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coastalem
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Posted - 09/28/2012 : 16:43
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benrefurb... that's a good and interesting point. If they can't aggregate the total reviews to an average then yes, that would be a problem.
Thanks for the replys:-) |
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benrefurb
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Posted - 09/28/2012 : 16:55
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I'm thinking if an average isn't possible, maybe there is a way to have the highest review show up. That's kinda cheating but better than under-rating yourself.
We will only have a few products so I plan on making static pages for most items. There should be a way.
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dbdave
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benrefurb
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Posted - 10/08/2012 : 10:59
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I'm not sure if this will work, but I set it up to try. Now I just have to wait for google.
I noticed the individual ratings had a span class of "rating" and a "value-title" that is given the rating number.
I modified the incproddetail.php to include the average star rating above the product and I've given it the same span classes as the individual ratings. The value of "value-title" is the average.
I know these will be lost with any update.... It's a heavy modification. Took quite a long time to figure it all out.
you can see what it looks like here: http://www.showyourflipside.com/proddetail.php?prod=smartsleeves_ipad
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