{"id":9995,"date":"2011-05-23T08:51:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T12:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=9995"},"modified":"2016-09-09T10:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T14:35:30","slug":"hreview-testimonials-from-smb-sites-starting-to-show-in-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/23\/hreview-testimonials-from-smb-sites-starting-to-show-in-places\/","title":{"rendered":"hReview Testimonials from SMB Sites Starting to Show in Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since last October when Google noted in their FAQ that <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/google-maps-rich-snippets-for-local-faq-testimonials-to-be-treated-as-reviews\/\">Rich Snippet testimonials might flow<\/a> into a Place Page, many webmasters took the time to mark up their client&#8217;s sites in hReview.<\/p>\n<p>As Andrew Shotland has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localseoguide.com\/google-places-rich-snippets-finally-working\/\">recently noted <\/a>and my observations have confirmed, these marked up reviews have slowly been making their way onto Places Pages from 3rd party review sites.<\/p>\n<p>However none had been seen from SMB sites until very recently. Since the first of May, 3 examples of SMB website&#8217;s testimonial pages having finally shown up on their Places Page. While there are likely to be more in the wild, three examples (from myself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andykuiper.com\/\">Andy Kuiper<\/a> &amp; Tyler Robertson) seem to indicate that going forward more are likely to occur:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"520\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><strong>Testimonial\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Place Page<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><strong>Place Page Screen Shot<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweetcarolinacupcakes.com\/reviews\/\">Sweet Carolina Cupcakes<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/place?cid=5109454350465219341&amp;q=Sweet+Carolina+Cupcakes&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;sll=32.144205,-80.751754&amp;sspn=0.006295,0.006295&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=32.149473,-80.761678&amp;spn=0,0&amp;z=16\">Place Page<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-8.37.15-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9996\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-05-23 at 8.37.15 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-8.37.15-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-8.37.15-AM.png 500w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-8.37.15-AM-300x66.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/barbaraoliverandco.com\/reviews-testimonials\/\">Barbara Oliver Jewelry<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/place?cid=3291747407840809159&amp;q=barbara+oliver+and+co+buffalo+ny&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;sll=42.964808,-78.736434&amp;sspn=0.172395,0.312257&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=43.103991,-79.054184&amp;spn=0,0&amp;z=11\">Place Page<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-8.37.42-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9997\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-05-23 at 8.37.42 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-8.37.42-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-8.37.42-AM.png 509w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-8.37.42-AM-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.electralaserhairremoval.com\/reviews.html\">Electra Hair Laser Removal<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/place?client=safari&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;q=Electra+Hair+Laser+Removal+Vancouver&amp;fb=1&amp;gl=us&amp;hq=Electra+Hair+Laser+Removal&amp;hnear=0x548673f143a94fb3:0xbb9196ea9b81f38b,Vancouver,+BC,+Canada&amp;cid=7158486840321467611&amp;z=14\">Place Page<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"TOP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-8.38.22-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9998\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-05-23 at 8.38.22 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-8.38.22-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-8.38.22-AM.png 506w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-8.38.22-AM-300x116.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbaraoliverandco.com\/i\"> Barbara Oliver and Co Jewelry<\/a> is a current client. Although I must say she is one of the best jewlers in Buffalo and if you need any jewelry you should give her a call &#8211; (716) 204-1297<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since last October when Google noted in their FAQ that Rich Snippet testimonials might flow into a Place Page, many webmasters took the time to mark up their client&#8217;s sites in hReview. As Andrew Shotland has recently noted and my observations have confirmed, these marked up reviews have slowly been making their way onto Places &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local","category-microformats-in-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9995"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19672,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions\/19672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}