Timeline for Google Structured Data: should I use the Review type or LocalBusiness type?
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| Sep 16, 2017 at 20:26 | comment | added | unor |
@MatthieuNapoli: About Google’s guidelines whether your pages might qualify: You quoted a part from the "Review Snippet guidelines" about "Local Businesses", but this part seems to apply only to aggregate ratings, which get displayed in Knowledge Cards. -- But again, even if it were the case that LocalBusiness reviews can’t get stars (which doesn’t seem to be the case, but let’s assume), then it can’t be a good idea to try to "game" Google’s parsers by marking it up so that they might not understand that it’s actually a local business which is getting reviewed.
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| Sep 16, 2017 at 20:26 | comment | added | unor | @MatthieuNapoli: With my examples, I answered the question in the title (not either-or, but both) and the bolded question in the text (both can be the root type). -- This is how the markup should look like accoding to Google’s documentation, now it’s up to them to decide whether they want to show stars or not (i.e., whether your pages qualify for a review snippet instead of a critic snippet). If your pages don’t qualify, there’s nothing you can do to "overcome" this, except for changing your site’s content. | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 17:43 | comment | added | Matthieu Napoli | I don't understand, I've said exactly this in the question already. The thing is that if I do either these solutions the documentation seem to say that stars will not appear in google (see my notes in the question). My goal is to get stars to show up in google searches. | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 17:21 | history | answered | unor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |