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Last week, I found that a few sites I manage lost their star rankings that formerly appeared in the serps.
For one site, the snippets were appearing on the testimonials page for many years, but are now gone. I recently read an article on seroundtable.com that talks about a recent crackdown in the display of rich snippets. So I'm guessing that the loss is an algo penalty related to the crackdown.
There were no manual penalties reported in GSC. Also the sites I manage don't show any errors when validating in the structured data testing tool.
Have any of the sites you manage lost your stars? If so, do you use a particular review plugin or service?
I found a few service oriented sites that still show their stars in the serps. These sites use the following techniques:
I was hoping we can share what is still working and compliant with Google's policies.
For one site, the snippets were appearing on the testimonials page for many years, but are now gone. I recently read an article on seroundtable.com that talks about a recent crackdown in the display of rich snippets. So I'm guessing that the loss is an algo penalty related to the crackdown.
There were no manual penalties reported in GSC. Also the sites I manage don't show any errors when validating in the structured data testing tool.
Have any of the sites you manage lost your stars? If so, do you use a particular review plugin or service?
I found a few service oriented sites that still show their stars in the serps. These sites use the following techniques:
- JSON markup
- review stream plugin from grade.us
- schema.org aggregate markup, but with itemtype incorrectly set to product instead of service
I was hoping we can share what is still working and compliant with Google's policies.
