EKomi widget and Schema.org
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Hi Everyone,
I bet everybody knows eKomi. For their customers they supply widgets (javascript) which you can add to your html and displays the widget to your visitors.
Some webshop alter the widget a bit and add extra html to the bottom of the widget:
Company Name receives a 7.4 out of 10 out of 1100 reviews
This code is dynamic and pulls data from eKomi.com.
I was wondering what you guys think of this, is this spam? Will Google see it as spam?
Searching for "Company name" in Google will result in a SERP with both the company and eKomi on #1 and #2 with the same snippets based on the reviews on eKomi.comLet me know
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You mentioned 1 result from the site and 1 from ekomi, which is not weird, the same review of the website on both the website and ekomi is the norm. What are the other 8 to get to 10 results?
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Hi Loui,
Like Max says: " as long as you follow the google guidelines". I once set this up with trust pilot. We did n't had any problems with Google and snippets where shown in the serps.Grtz, Leonie.
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you dont think it's weird you could get 10 results with snippets all based on 1 source?
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Rich snippet are supported by google and are not spam. As long as you follow google guidelines.
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