How to Properly Add Simple Review Schema to Your Website For a Review Pulled from a Third-Party Site
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Hello,
I'd like to pull the content of a review from a third-party site and put it on my client's website. My plan is to add review schema to this content but I want to make sure everything I'm doing is white hat before I implement. Can someone please tell me if the following example is okay to do?
For example...
I'd like to pull an entire review from Yelp and put it on my website. I would link out to the review on Yelp and then give credit to Yelp in the publisher section of the schema.If I give credit to the name of the reviewer and where the review is being pulled from (in this case Yelp) on both the actual website as well as in the schema, is this white hat and something I could implement?
Also, is "simple review" markup the correct markup to use in this scenario?
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/reviewsThanks in advance for your help!!
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Hi Etna,
I don't have anything official from Google that I can point you to but I think this is fine. There are lots of examples of this in the wild, for examples: http://www.sainsburysenergy.com/products-and-services/reviews.html
Your intent also isn't manipulative so I don't see what Google could be upset with you about. Just make sure to attribute the reviews appropriately and to show a balance.
Sorry, I don't have anything more concrete to point you to.
Craig
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Hello,
I think you can do it (get overall and last review) with Yelp API:
https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/business
And it's ok for SEO
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