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January 8, 2014 at 12:46 am #83949FabioParticipant
Hi there,
I need it for an adult site.
Google says rich snippets are not allowed for an adult site and even though that might simply mean that I can use it but they won't show up in search results, I would still prefer not to risk.The Wp customer reviews plugin does have rich snippets and they don't have support. I have read a lot of people complaining about the lack of support and I don't trust a plugin if the creator doesn't care.
GDstar is just too much stuff.
I simply want allow users to leave a rating and a comment, really no more than that. I am after something basic, basic, basic, without complications, javascripts and other stuff.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
FabioJanuary 8, 2014 at 10:47 am #84012SummerMemberI couldn't find a free one that I liked, so I went with WP Social's Review Engine.
It's currently in use at GenesisThemesGuide.com, even though no one has left any reviews for any of the themes or theme shops just yet. And yes, I set it up so that there are 2 different review options, themes get one set of ratings choices and theme shops get another (and if you like the plugin, feel free to use my affiliate link for it, on the About page) 😉
I think there's also a way to include reviews by post authors, but I didn't set that up with Review Engine.
If you want to see something where product reviews are only done by post authors, I have the free version of their SEO booster plugin running on demo.atouchofsummer.com (look at the Twilight Zone review under Articles) and I got the pro version to put on a couple other sites, and so far I like it, too.
What I'm not sure about is disableing the rich snippets parts of either plugin...
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkJanuary 8, 2014 at 9:42 pm #84108FabioParticipantHey Summer thanks,
honestly I did click your aff link, but their landing page is so terrible that I had no idea how to buy if I wanted to, neither I understood the price.As said since it's for an adult site, really the social sharing part of the equation is not very relevant, I don't know many people that share their adult stuff on facebook...
Anyways, I would need to make sure we can disable the rich snippets just to be on the safe side. I guess I'm asking something too simple to be profitable for developer to design...
January 8, 2014 at 10:14 pm #84114SummerMemberLOL, that's not a landing page, that's their main site/blog page. I should have that go directly to their plugins page, huh? They also sell a few themes, so therein lies the conundrum. They don't even have image banners yet... and I asked.
I think you might have to have someone build a custom plugin for you, because all of the new ones are being built around taking advantage of Google's rich snippets for reviews, something that Google's had available for, what, almost 3 years now? The chances of finding something up-to-date that doesn't incorporate rich snippets may be next to impossible, and for a developer, they might not be able to sell that to anyone else because it doesn't include rich snippets... unless they target it for the adult entertainment industry specifically.
Did Google say they'd penalize adult sites for using rich snippets, or was it just that they'd ignore that data for search results?
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkJanuary 8, 2014 at 10:18 pm #84115FabioParticipanthmmm... I think I am exaggerating a little with this.
I am quite sure google said they would ignore them, but problem is that I was penalized once from Google and it still hurts a lot 🙂 so now I am very careful.
I guess I'll see what I can do, in the end it's not that urgent.
ThanksJanuary 8, 2014 at 10:57 pm #84119SummerMemberI know your pain. One of my big sites had been penalized by Google over a period of two years, and I had no idea that's what was going on. We were doing everything right, following all their rules for content, and still they drove the knife into the site's back. Still trying to fix everything, and it's crazymaking because we didn't do anything wrong to begin with!
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkJanuary 8, 2014 at 11:19 pm #84123FabioParticipantHmmm.... that's the thing, every time I talk to Summer they (he or she?) make me think...
When I was penalized, I managed to fix everything in a couple of months and I already felt it was a lifetime... and now you say you were penalized for two years!
It makes me think about how important it is to have your focus on more than one site.
If it were for me I would only focus on one website and make it grow and expand, but then if something like a penalization happens it's a mess. If you have other sites instead, you can still cope with it.
I was just thinking about this today, is it better to be a big fish in a small pond? or a few small fish in a huge pond?
Probably the second option is the safest, even though much more annoying I think...January 9, 2014 at 12:35 am #84132SummerMemberThing is for me, my attention is divided between about 12 media sites for our group, plus being a producer for the radio show and co-producer for the webseries, plus however many client sites I'm developing or managing for my website biz (hadn't been doing much in the order of SEO until a few months ago, when I discovered what not paying close attention to Google's whims had been doing to my media sites).
The one big thing going is that 3 of our media sites have the authority & weight of age behind them... started between 2003-2006, and I think that part of the problem is that 2 of the sites are still turning up 404s from when they were Movable Type... a platform I moved us away from and over to WordPress in 2005!! Why do my sites get dinged because 200 abandoned Blogspot blogs still have old links on their sites... sheesh. I'm not even sure that making those work again will help us or hurt us more. It's crazymaking.
And yes, Summer is a she 🙂
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkJanuary 9, 2014 at 3:20 am #84140FabioParticipanthmm...
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