Rich Snippets Ratings For Q&A Discussions, Articles,
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Hi,
I'm looking for how I can use a star rating for a q&a discussion or article/blog post to achieve a rich snippets search result.
I'm thinking about a user rating for "Was this helpful?" 1 to 5 stars.
As I look at schema.org and do and other reading on it, it looks like it's possible to rate only a set group of content types, blogs and discussions not included.
However, I've seen rich snippets ratings in SERPs for blog posts, like this example
On page, it looks like they used some simple span tags.
So, my question is, which content type category does that fit into for rating and is that strategy safe enough going forward? Also, are there more steps to making this work?
It it is okay to have users rate the helpfulness of a discussion or article and get rich snippets, I'd kinda like to do it.
Best... Darcy
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Hi!
I consider that your first original idea of justifying the rating system (aggregatereview in Schema.org) bounding it to the "how much this answer was useful?" is correct.
Said that, I did not really understood if to a question is possible to offer more than one answer.
In that case the aggregatereview value should be something like "the average quality of the answers given to this question is 3/5).
So you should use the Schema just for that average of all the starred answers, and not adding Schema for every aggregatereview assigned to every answer.
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