I'm using Google rich snippets (https://developers.google.com/structured-data/rich-snippets/reviews) to tag ratings and reviews on this website: http://www.fwpest.com/
Google's Structured Data Testing Tool says "All good" here: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/?url=http://fwpest.com
But I don't see the stars below the website url on a Google SRP here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=f%26w%20pest%20control
By contrast, I do see the star rating and review metadata displayed for the ContactUs and BBB pages.
Why stars for ContactUs and BBB pages but no stars for fwpest.com?
Google Search doesn’t seem to show Rich Snippets for homepages.
This is currently not documented, but confirmed by the Google employee #methode:
We (Google) don't accept rich snippets for homepages; rich snippet annotations should be placed on leaf pages.
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I have some schema data for product reviews, but none of it actually prints to the page, it's only there in the background for Google.
Is this a bad idea? Do Google look for it on page as well? I can't find the answer anywhere. Thank you.
You can add Schema markup in your webpage content to make the relevant sections such as dates and reviews of the products visible to the searcher in the form of rich snippets. It is definitely not a bad idea to include structured data in the HTML of your webpage because Google shows additional data like the review, recipes, and events in the meta description of the link of the webpage. This will also help searchers to visit your webpage for product review due to the additional data provided as a rich snippet, and as a result, boost your SERP ranking.
I googled Top 10 Songs and it returned me a rich snippet of 10 songs from Top10 website. Digging further, the website had a list of exact same songs which google displayed in their Rich snippet.
Reading about Rich Snippet SEO, I got to know that we need to markup our data to qualify for Rich snippet card. Looking into the source of Top10 website, I found out that it didnt had schema.org/og definition that would mark their site up. To backup my claim, I checked the same on Google Structure Data Testing Tool and, as expected, it returned nothing.
I want to know how google is displaying the data on the Rich Snippet card. PS:- I read somewhere Google does not use their Knowledge Graph for Rich Snippet.
Please find the attached screenshot of the rich snippet.
That is likely a featured snippet (not a rich snippet, nor a rich result, as they are called now).
Google Search extracts the information from the webpage.
You can’t directly influence that such a featured snippet gets shown for your result:
How can I mark my page as a featured snippet?
You can't. Google programmatically determines that a page contains a likely answer to the user's question, and displays the result as a featured snippet.
What you see on top of organic result results is not Rich Snippet. A rich snippet is just a rich result. Rich snippet provides more graphical elements like rating stars, recipe cooking time, calory count, thumbnails etc. Rich snippets are generally more visually appealing. For example, I wanted to know the best recipe for chicken broth and googled to search for the same. Google will show me a list of rich snippets (like below) if the ranked pages are with structured code added for recipes.
rich snippet pic from learnly.info
Featured snippets often show up for some of the most competitive queries. Google's automated systems determine whether a page would make a good featured snippet to highlight for a specific search request. This is not something we can control using structured codes. There are ways to opt out if you don't want your content from your pages to be displayed as a featured snippet.
References for this answer: rich snippet guide by learnly.info
I have set up my google+ account with everything linked to my website, my website linking to Google+ as per instructions, but photo is not showing in search results, even though the google testing says all is fine.
My site is www.mikegeorgiades.com (Google+ link code in homepage).
My Google+ page is https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/105269586899946171489/+Mikegeorgiades-guitarist-for-hire
Is there any reason why the test would appear OK but not for real? Is there a lag? Thanks!
that can have multiple reasons:
On their help pages the Google guys wrote that "Your Google+ profile picture should be a good, recognisable head-shot". When you browse the web via Google’s search engine you probably see a lot of images which do not show “good, recognisable head-shots”. I think it belongs to Google whether the picture shows up or not.
Google Authorship does not work when you link to a Google+ business page instead of a real profile page.
You did not add a link back from your site to your Google+ page (see this help page (Option 2)).
Your author info is hidden to the public. Google don't like hidden stuff. Make sure that your reciprocal backlink is not hidden via CSS.
Very obvious: Your Google+ profile has no profile picture.
Your site is cached and the backlink is not yet integrated into the source code. Try to clear your cache.
Your backlink is missing the rel="author" attribute.
Your backlink is missing the ?rel=author attribute in the URL (ex. href="http://plus.google.com/u/0/123456789/?rel=author")
Check that your E-Mail Address (if added to your Google+ profile) is on the same domain as your content (read more about it here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1408986)
Make sure that the byline of your content includes the same name as in your Google+ profile. For example: When your Google+ Profile is "John Doe" your byline has to be "By John Doe" and not "By Doe John" or anything else.
You have not submitted your E-Mail address via this page: http://plus.google.com/authorship
Your Google+ profile is not visible to the public.
Your Google+ profile has been excluded to the search (so no one can find you via Google`s search engine).
There are multiple authors on one page. Google always uses only the first author that has been mentioned on a page.
You did not add your website to "Contributor To" section (click here to do that now: http://plus.google.com/me/about/edit/co)
The "Contributor To" section is not visible to the public.
The Rich Snippet Testing Tool throws errors (even if they are not related to authorship)
Last but not least: Google just does not want to display your profile picture
Update 1: More reasons can be:
Some users said that it also won't work when your website was not confirmed as yours in Google Webmaster Tools.
Some said that they got it to work after adding the same URL in Google+ as in Google Webmaster tools (Within Google webmaster tools you can setup the preferred domain (www or non-www).)
I'm not working at Google but I think when the Rich Snippet Testing Tool shows your picture it should appear in search results after some days.
Update 2: One more:
You have deactivated the option that noone can find your picture in Googles search results. To solve this go to https://www.google.com/settings/plus and scroll down to the "Profile" section. Activate the checkbox beside "Help others discover my profile in search results." (in German this is: "Andere sollen mein Profil in Suchergebnissen finden können").
Update 3: One more:
John Mueller (Webmaster Trends Analyst # Google) announced that in the near future Google will not longer show the profile picture in search results. Instead it will show up on Google News only. However the name will still show up on search results pages. Preview image can be found here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1408986
I recently experienced my photo disappearing from the search results and I, too, verified that everything else was correct under the structured data testing tool. At first my photo snippet was showing in the SERP but then it vanished. I was also trying different profile photos. I had one with dimensions of 400x400 pixels and another one with dimensions of 256x256 pixels. I didn't fully verify it, but Google apparently didn't like my 400x400 photo. Google wants a clear profile photo of your face. Perhaps some algorithm found my larger photo too grainy or something along those lines. Changing my photo back to the 256x256 version caused my photo to reappear in the search results! I'd suggest trying different dimensions, different photo formats, perhaps even changing the color profile. The search results were updated fairly quickly after I uploaded a working photo. Seems like I saw results in under an hour, YMMV.
You can refer to the photo I used, along with my Contributor to links, at my Google+ page at https://plus.google.com/108810746834291116055. The page that I have my authorship set at is http://blog.ikiapps.com using rel=author.
Update on 2014-Apr-27:
I can confirm my advice worked for me again after completely changing my Google profile to another account and losing the visibility of my authorship associated photo in search results for a brief period of time. It is now restored after following what I posted here.
is it possible use a google+ page as author in google rich snippet ?
If for example i compare in a google search, the image and name of author of my article is the image and name of may google+ page.
Thanks to all and excuse me for my english
Authorship is meant to be for people so the rel=author links are meant to point to profiles not Pages.
I have been looking at rich snippets in google. Google lists the following schema.org items as being supported:
Reviews
People
List item
Products
Businesses and organizations
Recipes
Events Music
I have noticed that in search results, Google displays Rich Snippets for Article and BlogPosting. When clicking on the link and using Firebug to check the source code, I can see that the schema.org being used is indeed BlogPosting.
I've tried adding BlogPosting to my sample code and using Google's Rich Snippet tool to check the results but I cant get an image to display. I am using the following code:
<html>
<body> etc etc....
<div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting">
<img itemprop="image" href="/images/test.jpg" item>
</div>
...
Although it doesn't show the image in the Rich Snippet tool, it does recognize that an image has been set and displays the url text in the "Extracted rich snippet data from the page" box. I have tried using the SoftwareApplication schema and then I get an image to show.
My question is: Does the Rich Snippet tool restrict the images it shows based on the schemas listed above, and actually once in the live search results, Rich Snippets for Article and BlogPostings will be shown?
Google has introduced Rich Snippet for Articles, so you can now use articles snippet for your article/blog post.
See this official document from Google on implementing rich snippet for your articles: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/rich-snippets/articles
And as far as your image issue is concerned, try to apply the snippet code as per the document above and it should show the image. I tested it and all worked fine.
As of now, Google is not going to display product images in SERPS for schema.org/Article or schema.org/BlogPosting item types. It's going to show the Author profile image that it pulls from Google+ using one of two methods:
https://plus.google.com/authorship
... think about it. Everyone would be trying to attach add some (spammy) image next to their blog post in SERPS. Google only wants to show verified authorship by their authentification methods (via G+) -- not just from any "author" tag in microdata.
Yes, the rich snippet tool will not show you what the actual SERP will always look like, because it depends on the query. In fact they say
Note that there is no guarantee that a Rich Snippet will be shown for
this page on actual search results.