Star ratings in rich snippets not displaying

[A_Q]

Hi all,

I have a site where star ratings are being used in rich snippets. Up until about 8 weeks ago these were displaying in SERPs as normal. They have since stopped being displayed in SERPs even though Google's Rich Snippets testing tool says that the markup is correct and they display within the test tool environment.

I'm just wondering if anybody else has had the same problem and if there's a solution?

Thanks,

Elias

[STL]

Hi Elias

Few things are as temperamental as rich snippets. We've been experimenting with flavours of them for about 6 months and now have star ratings displayed for virtually every SERP entry.

However there's one page on our site with great page authority, that has been around for years, that we embedded star ratings on to 3 months ago yet Google refuses to show any snippets at all. Can't see any reason why this one page won't take. We've not yet been able to crack this one so any pointers would be really helpful!

Rich

[A_Q]

Hi Rich,

There's one particular page on one of our websites that is very powerful, really high page authprity on a site with a huge domain authority yet the rich snippets are intermitent. Some days they're there some days they're not.

I'm not sure why but it is only the stars that do not always display. The date of the review is consistent.

Strange.

[evolvingSEO]

I too have seen this behavior, and don't know of a one-fits-all solution. Personally I'd start examining things with the specific URL. Do other results in those SERPs have stars?

-Dan