schema code incomplete?

Hi cebln!

Thanks for the hint. I will check that in the next few days and get back to you.

Regards

Hi all,

thanks for your patience. I had some time to think about the rating / reviewRating thing. When I implemented the SEO I wasn’t sure what the best would be and my guess was that a “rating” would fit for everyone. More or less…

I think if you use this plugin it’s always a rating but not always part of a review. Sure, in 95% it is. But what about these 5%? Shall I ignore them or is it OK for me to let the SEO not that precise?

And here we are. Still no change. I decided to add a new option inside the settings page so that you can choose if you use “rating” or “reviewRating” for the SEO. I will update the plugin the next few days and then you can decide what fits your needs best.

Hello again!

First of all I am sorry for the delay.

I updated USR to version 1.9.5 with the option to change the rating type. Choices are now “rating” and “reviewRating”. I checked it with the Google code checker. Unfortunately Google interprets the reviewRating as a rating because you need to define what your review is about. Because USR will never have a clue about what you review it always will be identified as a rating.

Sorry that there are no better news but keep in mind that a reviewRating is just a sub type of a rating so that it is never wrong.

Cheers

Hi Ovidiu,

I am sure. A reviewRating can only be inside a review or it will be interpreted as a rating even if it is declared as a reviewRating.

Just play around with the testing tool:
https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/

Try this QC – for a rating:

<div itemprop="rating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating" class="usr">
<meta itemprop="worstRating" content="0" />
<img class="usr" src="http://www.cizero.de/wp-content/plugins/universal-star-rating/includes/stars.php?img=02.png&px=12&max=5&rat=3.5" alt="3.5 Stars" />
(<span itemprop="ratingValue">3.5</span> / <span itemprop="bestRating">5</span>)
</div>

QC for a reviewRating – Check is OK but marks it as rating:

<div itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating" class="usr">
<meta itemprop="worstRating" content="0" />
<img class="usr" src="http://www.cizero.de/wp-content/plugins/universal-star-rating/includes/stars.php?img=02.png&px=12&max=5&rat=3.5" alt="3.5 Stars" />
(<span itemprop="ratingValue">3.5</span> / <span itemprop="bestRating">5</span>)
</div>

QC for a reviewRating inside a review – Some data are not known and Google marks it as wrong even if a reviewRating is recognized:

<div itemprop="review" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review" class="usr">
<div itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating" class="usr">
<meta itemprop="worstRating" content="0" />
<img class="usr" src="http://www.cizero.de/wp-content/plugins/universal-star-rating/includes/stars.php?img=02.png&px=12&max=5&rat=3.5" alt="3.5 Stars" />
(<span itemprop="ratingValue">3.5</span> / <span itemprop="bestRating">5</span>)
</div>
</div>

It is possible to do a workaround. If you post something you could define the needed Tags before and after the rating:

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">
  <div itemprop="itemReviewed" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Restaurant">
    <span itemprop="name">Legal Seafood</span>
  </div>

  HERE COMES USR

  <span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
    <span itemprop="name">Bob Smith</span>
  </span>
</div>

I will check if I could implement another shortcode which works with some extra data so that these tags can be generated and Rich Snippets are available. But can’t promise.

No worries, I just wanted to explain 🙂