Richard1967 Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Hi All Is there a way to show a customer review including the stars in the meta description? Image attached what i'm trying to achieve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 I asked Richard to post here as my knowledge in this area is poor. The website already has valid Schema Markup for products with review data. https://validator.schema.org/#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.extremeracing.co.uk%2Fsummer-one-piece-base-layer.html I can't see any reason why Google can't show the rating on their listing but does anyone know much about the criteria for this to get it showing? No doubt this is a fairly hot topic for all CC merchants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsmither Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 (edited) The wording of the OP suggests that the web page's <meta description> is to contain some sort of the product's review data. The image of Google's console, SERP Snippet tab, suggests all data has been manually entered (but, really, I have no knowledge of this console and cannot conclude this 100%). We can use the Smarty code found in the template element.product.review_score.php template modified to fit the constraints of statements in the <head> section of the HTML document found in the template element.meta.php. <meta name="description" content="{if isset($META_DESCRIPTION)}{$META_DESCRIPTION}{/if} {if $SECTION_NAME eq 'product'}{for $i = 1; $i <= 5; $i++}{if $PRODUCT.review_score gte $i}★{elseif $PRODUCT.review_score gt ($i - 1) && $PRODUCT.review_score lt $i}⯨{else}☆{/if}{/for}{/if}"> We first make sure that a View Product page is showing. Then we use the logic to show full stars or empty stars, or a half-star for the product's review average rating. It would be impractical to specify generic images in the <head> section (even though a product thumbnail image is specified for FBOG). So, we use HTML Entities. See: https://www.htmlsymbols.xyz/star-symbols There is a means to use a HEX code for the half-star, but having the browser render that character will likely fail as there is no entity name for a half-star. Nor are there any full/open pairs of other common characters with an entity name that also has a half-full variant. There might be (or was) an extension to collect testimonials concerning a store, but otherwise, each product can have multiple reviews, each with its own rating. Which actual review content is to be shown? Edited January 25, 2022 by bsmither Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 8 minutes ago, bsmither said: The wording of the OP suggests that the web page's <meta description> is to contain some sort of the product's review data. The image of Google's console, SERP Snippet tab, suggests all data has been manually entered (but, really, I have no knowledge of this console and cannot conclude this 100%). We can use the Smarty code found in the template element.product.review_score.php template modified to fit the constraints of statements in the <head> section of the HTML document found in the template element.meta.php. <meta name="description" content="{if isset($META_DESCRIPTION)}{$META_DESCRIPTION}{/if} {if $SECTION_NAME eq 'product'}{for $i = 1; $i <= 5; $i++}{if $PRODUCT.review_score gte $i}★{elseif $PRODUCT.review_score gt ($i - 1) && $PRODUCT.review_score lt $i}⯨{else}☆{/if}{/for}{/if}"> We first make sure that a View Product page is showing. Then we use the logic to show full stars or empty stars, or a half-star for the product's review average rating. It would be impractical to specify generic images in the <head> section (even though a product thumbnail image is specified for FBOG). So, we use HTML Entities. See: https://www.htmlsymbols.xyz/star-symbols There is a means to use a HEX code for the half-star, but the having the browser render that character will likely fail. There might be (or was) an extension to collect testimonials concerning a store, but otherwise, each product can have multiple reviews, each with its own rating. Which actual review content is to be shown? Is it that crude or do search engines take into account microdata? I'd hope the latter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsmither Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 I would say, logically, a web page scraper would want to use microdata, falling back to <meta> tags, falling back to <hx> tags, possibly having all of that overridden by some sort of user-provided site map file or (very onerous) manual data entry at the search engine's management console. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcinwq Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 (edited) Thanks for the helpful information Edited January 29, 2022 by Alcinwq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard1967 Posted January 28, 2022 Author Share Posted January 28, 2022 Hi Not sure if this was the fix but Al had worked previously on the reveiw snippet errors that google search console kept throwing up. Now the rich snippets are visible on google & no input from me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 So I think in conclusion the rich snippets work but took a little while to show in the search engine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Hurst Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 I see this topic was raised last year and I have a follow up regarding Rich Snippets in general. I've attached a google search for one of my products that has reviews and the only snippet shown is the price. Rival sites get reviews, 'in stock' and some bespoke snippets, is there a way of allowing google to see this for me? Alot of my stocks levels are not set, using the unlimited instead. Also how could I go about creating some bespoke rich snippets? I'm not a designer, so not too much tecnical speak please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Hurst Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 What a numpty - i've just seen that Havenswift Hosting has a Google & Pinterest schema.org Microdata plugin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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