The right way for review count?

[Ouzan]

Hi,

I have a question that kinda bothers me for a while now and would love to hear you guys thoughts on this matter.

One of the categories in my websites is services reviews, for example:
http://www.websiteplanet.com/review/questionform/

Recently we upgraded the site and gave users the option to write their own review as well.

Now as you can see, the way it works is that we write a very big and informative/professional review ourself and in addition we give users the option to write their own reviews and share their experience with the service.

Now My question is:
There is the itemprop-review count thingy, now we did it so if 0 users wrote a review it will show 0 reviews on the count.
Is it correct? (Feel free to check the site code yourself)
Or is it wrong? because their is actually 1 review (our editors review)

I hope I explained my self well...
If not, please let me know what is unclear.

Thanks!

[matbennett]

I can't see anything that specifically precludes you from counting you own review in that.  However if there were a lot where the only review was you own I can see it could look like you were trying to manipulate things.

If you were doing that I would definitely include the reviewer markup as well. That would make it really clear that you were being open about the source.

This page might be useful, You've probably seen it already, but they are talking about mixed case there and seem fine with what you are suggesting:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146645&topic=1088474&ctx=topic