Add Star Rating in Google Search Results

Star rating schema markup is a type of structured data that can be added to a website or web page to provide search engines with information about the quality or rating of a product, service, or content.

The star rating is usually displayed as a series of stars and can range from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest rating.

The structured data is marked up in a specific format, such as schema.org or microdata, and provides search engines with information about the rating and its source.

This information can then be used by search engines to display the rating in the search results, providing users with valuable information about the quality of the content.

Today most people use this star rating for their websites in Google search results.

So before going ahead I want to tell you something about Google crawling technique.

How Google Crawling Technique Work.?

Friends when you publish a new article on your website if that article is automatically fetched then it will take up to 3 days to show up in Google results but if you submit that article manually in the Google Webmaster tool then it will be visible in Google search results in few minutes or in one day ( not tested manually ).

So whenever you publish an article and submit it to the Google Webmaster tool the crawlers of Google crawl your webpage and save that webpage in their directory list.

If someone searches for anything and your webpage will be searched in that directory list if it match's the user requirement or query then it will be shown in the search results.

So now let's talk about this star rating in Google search results.

To add star rating in Google search results you need to have some knowledge about Google schema markup.

We can add this star rating to our blogger posts by using schema markup this schema markup is a JSON code that tells Google about a particular item.

This schema markup is very much helpful for Google crawlers to understand what your article and your website are about and many other things that are why most blogger templates or WordPress templates come up with schema markup.

In search results it will look something like this:

And if you want to add this star rating to Google search results of your website then you can follow the steps provided below to do that.

Steps to follow:

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard
2. Go to Theme/Template Section
3. Click Edit HTML
4. Now Search for <div class='post-footer'>

To search anything in the blogger template section press Ctrl+F and then type term to search and press enter & if you don't find this term in your blogger template code then search for element with the class post-body or entry-content and paste this code after that tag.

5. Now copy the code provided below and paste it just after the tag we have founded in step 4.

<script type="application/ld+json">
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "Review",
        "author": {
            "@type": "Person",
            "name": "Muhammad Muzammil",
            "sameAs": "https://plus.google.com/+softwebtuts"
        },
        "url": "<data:blog.canonicalUrl/>",
        "datePublished": "2016-03-13T20:00",
        "publisher": {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "name": "Softweb Tuts",
            "sameAs": "https://softwebtuts.blogspot.com/"
        },
        "description": "<data:blog.metaDescription/>",
        "inLanguage": "en",
        "itemReviewed": {
            "@type": "Product",
            "name": "<data:blog.pageName/>",
            "sameAs": "<data:blog.canonicalUrl/>",
            "image": "<data:blog.postImageThumbnailUrl/>",
            "aggregateRating": {
                "@type": "AggregateRating",
                "ratingValue": "92",
                "bestRating": "100",
                "ratingCount": "216",
                "author": {
                    "@type": "Person",
                    "name": "Muzammil"
                }
            }
        }
    }
</script>

6. Save Theme/Template

If the above code does not work properly in your blogger blog then replace " with &quot;

You can modify the highlighted code according to your requirements.

So after adding this schema markup code into your blogger blog then whenever Google crawler crawls your new posts on your website then the schema markup code will also be crawled and the crawlers will understand that you want to show a star rating in Google search results.

It will take some time to show up this star rating in Google search results.

Conclusion:

This star rating in Google search results of your website provides your website with a premium look and makes your search results look beautiful in Google search.

One thing that you should know is that this schema markup code will only work on the Google search engine.