Using AggregateReview markup to generate star sinppets for wordpress blog posts? OK or Spam?
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Do you believe using a plugin that allows visitors to rate your blog posts and then generating AggregateReview markup code for each blog post is in accordance with google guidelines?
I saw there are a couple of wordpress plugins that offer this functionality.
Anybody who had any negative experience?
Star icons will certainly increase visibility in SERP.
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Using it the way you proposed is encouraging engagement with your post which is a great thing. Aggregating these ratings for each blog post using proper Schema is a great use of the function. Shouldn't cause any problems.
The negative problems I have seen were related to aggregating ratings and reviews from established authority sites and placing them on a page.
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