Embedding reviews on website?
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Our company is considering embedding either a live feed of reviews or selected reviews on our website. We're a B2C service business. Our preference would be to embed a live feed of Google+ reviews. I've found conflicting info on whether this will incur a duplicate content penalty from Google. There's a plugin that we could use on our site (built with Wordpress), or we could embed directly from Google+ if it's better for SEO.
Thoughts on whether we should embed reviews at all, and if so, the best way to go about it?
Thanks!
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hello,
Embedding reviews is not a problem, as long as you ensure it doesn't get indexed by search engines. Best way to achieve that is to create a separate script which is called in an iframe. This script is the one where you make calls for the reviews from google + or any other source that you may wish to use, and ensure this script is include in your robots.txt as a file which is not be crawled.
Hope this helps.
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