Rich snippets stars gone

[AlanMosley]

i had some rich snippets stars for reviews showing on one of my clinets sites, but today they have gone, has anyone had this happen, if so what did you do to get them back?

[AlanMosley]

bob just to let you know, i re-did the reviews using actual reviews on page, just 2 of them and i have the starts back.

[AlanMosley]

did you try to get them back? any sucess?

[bobjones]

That's me And yes, I think a competitor ratted me out to Google while I was experimenting with the review stars

[AlanMosley]

Just noticed your domain anseocompany.com.au

I have seen it when checking my rankings, i also remeber you had stars before, are you talking from expirerence?

I used to trade under perthseocompany.com.au but i have merged my websites under thatsit.com.au

[AlanMosley]

i know it well, I grew up in the badlands on the other side of wanaroo road.

[bobjones]

I'm up north, Greenwood

[AlanMosley]

Yes i just had a look as i removed some html from that page, thought i may of taken some of the wrong cope out, but no.

But i did find that i was messing around and added a empty organization snippet see below and forgot to remove it, it was just above the review, maybe it upset things

http://schema.org/Organization">

but then the stars still apeared in rich snippet tool, so I doubt this had an affect, but i have removed it and i will see.

I am from parkerville up in the hills, i have been suprised to see so many Aussies on the forum.

[bobjones]

Hmm, not sure in that case. Any recent updates to the code perhaps?

And yes, I'm from Perth too

[AlanMosley]

These were reviews from BBC, NYT, CNN and NPR

This was done using

http://data-vocabulary.org/Review">
            NYT, BBC, NPR and CNN

not a count of reviews, i will give it a few days to see if they come back.

I am a perth seo, and the ones on my site are fine.(at the moment)

Are you also from Perth Bob

[AlanMosley]

these were just rich snippets for orgqanic serps

[bobjones]

We're they real reviews or manufactured ones? I've seen a lot of Perth SEO sites had em, and Google took them away because they were misleading.

[activitysuper]

Has the star rating dropped?

I know Google Adwords has a trigger at round 4 stars+, if the star rating drops below this the stars turn off.

So this might/might not be the problem.