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Use the power of rich snippets

Your potential customers are most likely to click on search results that have pictures, star ratings and videos. Rich snippets are micro-data which are used to provide additional information about your product or service and give your potential customer every reason to click on your website instead of the competitor's.Google Rich snippet

a. Presenting reviews next to your product information can encourage consumers who have intent to purchase, improve search engine rankings and drive customers to product pages.
b. Rating dimensions can be customized from the traditional star-based assessment to more custom ratings criteria.
c. Customers can quickly access a summary of pros, cons and best uses, that raises customer confidence in a product.

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Make Your Site SEO With Rich Snippet Mark-up

Deciding to hire an SEO is a big step that can potentially improve your website, but you can also risk damage to your website and reputation. Use our ratings and reviews solution risk free, we have proven record of results. Organic search results were invented to distinguish the real search results from the ads. Rich snippets enable sites to improve their search results with add-ons like ratings, reviews and photos, which draw the searcher’s eye as well as offering additional information. Rich snippets are an effective means of boosting your exposure in the organic search results.

Google claims that their users click organic search results more often than ads. Using rich snippet helps Google to present users with the most useful and informative search results. The more information a search result snippet can provide, the easier it is for users to decide whether that page is relevant to their search, the easier it is for users to distinguish the real search results from the ads.

With rich snippets your reviews represent a certain type of data: count of votes, star rating and etc. Search engines provide rich snippets not to play favorites with one page over another, but to enable searchers to make a more click decision.

Rich snippets help you see:

  • Higher rankings in organic search results
  • Better clickthrough rates
  • More qualified traffic
  • Better conversion rates

Providing this information doesn't affect the appearance of your content on your own pages, but it does help Google better understand, index and present information from your page.

Check out an example of a Product Reviews rich snippet below. The Reviews markup type also includes the commonly seen Reviews Aggregate.

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Notice how the meta data features more intelligent, engaging content that provides better information about your product or service.

We suggest taking a read of the Schema.org website for a more in–depth understanding of structured data mark–up.

Google product ratings and reviews

We have some exciting new update.

We released Google product ratings and reviews feed.

Our clients can now extend the value of their review content by sending Google product reviews feed for display in Product Listing Ads. Our clients easily share product reviews from their websites with Google properties. Our system provides product and seller reviews to three Google’s services: search optimization, shopping, and seller ratings. By providing review data for the Google product ratings and reviews program, we’re making valuable information available to shoppers to make purchase decisions, help advertisers drive more qualified traffic to their sites and help shoppers easily find this information.

Google product ratings

We look forward to receiving your feedback on these new features.

What tagged keywords are associated with the top products?

Keywords are widely used across web applications today but you may know them more commonly as “tags”. Keywords should be part of your overall ongoing SEO strategy. Tags are more specific low-level descriptions, offering a narrower view of whatever the subject might be.

Tags for a review are the few words that best describe your product or service.

Reasons why keywords and tags are so important:

  • Search phrases and keywords help search engines and tag services add up your keyword counts and classify your review content. They help rank your placement in search results.
  • Help meet the needs of customers. This leads to better brand awareness and sales.
  • Keywords and tags help you create targeted online advertisements.
  • Keywords and tags provide additional navigation on your site, like an index reference.



Tagged Keywords

Generate your SEO integration package

Today billions of users have access to the internet, each day they use search engines to find products and services. Search Engine Optimization(SEO) has become an important part of business growth and customer attraction.

We provide SEO integration packages for our clients, and now they can generate them online, download and install. We are covering four major platforms: Java, PHP, .NET and Classic ASP. We provide it now for each widget/ratingbox, our clients can access that functionality on the Active Widgets page.Generate your SEO integration package

This is a sample result SEO integration package provides here.

Our SEO integration package provides Google, Yahoo, Bing and Yandex with much more granular information about products or service in a manner that is officially sanctioned by search engines. It means of providing very exact e-commerce information to the search engines in exactly the form they want it.

Rich Snippet Benefits
It increases visibility and credibility in the SERPs when search engines generate rich snippets for a product in the search results. Here is a rich snippet in Google for a service on IntelliQuote, which uses schema.org Product and Review markup.
Google is hungry for rich snippet markup.

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Testing
Rich Snippets Testing Tool allows you to make sure you have implemented Schema.org correctly.