Hi My247restore,
I doubt the update to WordPress 4.6 changed anything, but it could be that other things changed on your site with your theme or other plugins that could be causing a problem.
Looking at your site, though, the way you’ve implemented it on the homepage isn’t valid. The schema markup has specific rules for aggregated ratings. You can’t just re-purpose a single review entry from this plugin as an aggregated rating.
It’s possible that that is the problem you’ve hit with Google. But maybe not. I ran your site through Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool and it didn’t flag up any errors:
https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/#url=http%3A%2F%2Fepicinteriors.com%2Fkitchen-remodeling-contractor-irvine-ca%2F
At the end of the day, all we can do is provide valid markup and hope that Google decides to index and display it. But their decision for each individual site is not really open for examination. It may view your attempt at a fake aggregation as a form of manipulation.
My recommendation would be to transition the testimonials on your testimonials page over to this plugin. Google can read multiple reviews and aggregate them themselves.
You’ll probably want to remove the aggregated review on the homepage, or just remove the schema markup so that it doesn’t look like you’re trying to trick Google.
Hello thanks for the reply.
I suspect its possible it may be another plugin since a couple have not been tested up to 4.6 but it could be the fact Im using it as an aggregated rating (which I prefer simple). I had read somewhere in the past you could use a markup if attached to your testimonials but I also read it may have changed since 2014 Im not sure.
However I did run the same structured data test and assumed it was still acceptable.
I guess its all speculation for now, Ill try and disable each plugin first and manual crawl each url to see. If not I may just not be lazy and do individual for each testimonial. 🙂
Anyways I appreciate the response
thanks NateWr
