{"id":15344,"date":"2013-07-19T16:04:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T20:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=15344"},"modified":"2013-07-19T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T20:05:29","slug":"how-many-reviews-to-get-the-star-treatment-somewhere-between-4-and-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/19\/how-many-reviews-to-get-the-star-treatment-somewhere-between-4-and-5\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Reviews to Get the Star Treatment? Somewhere Between 4 and 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eagle eyed Phil Rozek<\/a> of Local Visibility\u00a0pointed<\/a> out this example of a business with 4 reviews that is showing the new star treatment in the main search result for jewelry boston<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I thought that \u00a0odd as previously<\/a> it had seemed that 5 reviews was the limit to get the star treatment. Well it is odd. It seems that sometimes it is four reviews and sometimes it is five reviews. Go figure.<\/p>\n

Here is a local carousel for a search (restaurants ellicottville, ny<\/a>) where a listing with 4 reviews doesn’t have stars but 5 reviews does:<\/p>\n

\"restaurants<\/a><\/p>\n

And another for a search for jewelry orlando<\/a> which also shows no stars with four reviews and stars with five:<\/p>\n

\"jewelry<\/a><\/p>\n

There is some factor that causes Google to consider 4 enough to show the stars. What it is, is not exactly clear. Ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eagle eyed Phil Rozek of Local Visibility\u00a0pointed out this example of a business with 4 reviews that is showing the new star treatment in the main search result for jewelry boston: I thought that \u00a0odd as previously it had seemed that 5 reviews was the limit to get the star treatment. Well it is odd. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t