Google Reviews Rich Snippets

[Slumberjac]

Howdy Moz fans!

Does anyone know if you can use Google Reviews as a Rich Snippet in the actual Google listing for your business?

It seems strange that you can have this for widgets like Trust Pilot and Reviews.co.uk and not Google Reviews.

Surely Google allow you to display Google reviews on your site that can then be used for schema mark up?

Maybe they don't because those reviews are used for local searches?

Hope this makes sense.

David.

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[Cesare.Marchetti]

Hi David,

I was asking myself the same questions. Its not stated anywhere clearly on their review snippet page or at least I didn't find it: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/reviews#review-snippets. I justed added them to my local business schema. I guess it does not do any harm.

By the way: if you do AdWords campaigns there is a review extension, where you can add reviews. Again here Google reviews are not allowed. I checked that some time ago with the Google support.

Cheers,

Cesare

[Slumberjac]

Thanks Cesare!

Yes it is a strange one. I'm sure it will be added at some point in the near future!

[Slumberjac]

Thanks James.

Google bang on about including rich content! You would think that they would see value in users of a website being able to directly view reviews from their own avenue! Hey ho, I guess it sits in the Google + card... maybe it will happen in the future!

[garethmorgans]

Has there been any further clarification on this?