Small, quick and very simple post this one – I;m just trying to find out if and other reviewers use markup (be it html, microformatting or anything else) to help improve the visibility of your reviews in google search engine ranking?
Doesn’t matter whether you review sex toys, nappies or gardening tools – if you write and publish reviews online there is a way to help make them stand out in google’s results and I’m trying to find out if people realise this. And a little more importantly I want to know if enough people are interested in this for me to take the time to write up a bit of a tutorial on how to go about adding the extra markup to your reviews to help you get your reviews seen – and after all if your reviews are read it can equal sales for your sponsors and possible comissions for you.
So if you’ve heard of them or use them I’d love to hear how useful you find it, or if you just want to know more let me know that too and I’ll work on creating a guide to adding the correct markup/metadata to your reviews.
And just to prove I’m not totally bonkers and that “review mark up” does exist you can read about it on google. It’s been around for a while but is only just beginning to really make a difference as the google algorithm updates get rolled out across the globe.
I’ve never done any of this and wouldn’t even know where to start, actually. A tutorial would be wonderful.
I would be interested in reading it if you wrote a guide.
As for hearing about it, my husband made me a bunch of cut and paste code for my reviews about a year ago, but it confused me. He doesn’t think of blogs as “real sites” so doesn’t consider search engine optimization very important for them.
oh my word – blogs ARE real websites!!! but also LOL I think a lot of people think blogs aren’t real sites – or at least those in the 30+ demographic
I’ve begun writing my guide but it may turn into a series of posts just so that I can explain the basics through to the advanced stuff so that it is helpful to everyone.
Thanks for your comment
I didn’t know this, don’t know how to do this and would love to hear more about it. Please post a guide that would be awesome thanks 🙂
I would love to see this guide as well.
Would love a tutorial. I use the SEO things under my posts for title etc, but hadn’t heard of using markup.
Aside from using post tags and filling in the anchor text on images, we pretty much rely on the grace of Google to find things. Would be nice to learn what else could be done.
Love to see the guide as well.
I tried reading the google thing you linked to and it made my head spin, lol.
Plz dumb down thx. 🙂
Yeah it does get kinda confusing to say the least! I think it will end up as a series of posts starting with explaining what markup is, how tags work, how to add them using the html post editor and then move into the different schema.org tags that can be used for products and reviews.
One of the best, most organised and easiest to digest pages regarding rich snippets, microdata and schema.org can be found at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1211158 , but like anyone writing any form of guide I need to fully get it down and 100% working before I can complete the guide – but the first part will hopefully be done by next week.
I didn’t know that this markup dealio even existed. I’d be interested in a tutorial if you wanna make it. 🙂
That is pretty interesting but.. I personally wouldn’t notice those review items in my own search results and I’m a prolific Googler so I’m not sure the effort is worth the payoff.