Schema.org Review for Person

[Mase]

I'm trying to make some sense of Google's rich snippets and microdata/Schema.org.

Wondering if it's allowed to have reviews or an aggregateReview for a Person, rather than a Thing, Product or Place. Of course, a Person is a Thing, but when I try to validate my markup with Google's Structured Data Testing Tool, it tells me:

Warning: Page contains property "aggregaterating" which is not part of the schema.

Anyone have any ideas here?

[BlueprintMarketing]

I understand completely where you're coming from. It sounds like Google's gone a little wacky. I think you can review the person's blog that would effectively allow you to review what you think of that person's work.

The person section in there is for you.

You need to put your companies or personal information in their for Google local/places and other sites to find you. you might want to consider adding and Hcard

you can of course review the blog as a place. Or the URL what are they selling or the product information. That's how I would take it and that's how I would structure it.

Their examples are a bit out there and I thought the same thing as you however you should use it and use it to the best of what you believe is correct. If you want to review product well I consider writing a blog work and the product is the intellectual property and yes you can use stars but you need another plug-in. I really like the snippet plug-in as well for Schema it allows you more freedom. I would honestly ask Raven tools themselves they probably will give you the best answer possible.

I hope I have been of help

Thomas

I believe a person/business can have reviews but I think only the business is if it's tied to the person.

[Mase]

I've been using the Raven tool. The question is more about if Reviews are a valid thing for a Person -- they are always exampled as being for a product or a place.

As far as I can tell, the Highlight tool is only for events, not Review or other types of structured data yet.

It's not so much about generating the markup, I have done that. But after doing so, Google's Structured Data Testing tool is telling me that AggregateReview is not a valid property for a Person.

Can a Person have reviews?

[BlueprintMarketing]

try using

http://www.microdatagenerator.com/

and if you're using Word press use Raven tools Schema you can also used a WordPress snippets plug-in. That you can reverse and fix anything you may not find you wanted to do.

I would also highly recommend using Google's highlight tool found in their Google Webmaster tools it is excellent