[johan]

This works really well. I made a site q4 2013 and now have stars in google for any page with comments.

[Methyus]

Well, it looks like Commentics has come to my rescue once again for a second time! lol I have already been using it for a year for my blog's commenting system... I cannot tell you guys how happy I am to learn that Commentics is already setup for rich snippets/microdata! Okay, so... What I want to do is use also Commentics as a means for my clients to leave reviews and star ratings for my services. Aside from the onsite benefits, my intentions are to get the star ratings in my search results. So, my plan is to create a new Commentics "page" that will simply be named "Reviews & Testimonials". I would prefer that it would only have to be included on a single page (ie; on my Reviews.php page and not on every page). But, I would like to place schema/microformat markup for aggregate reviews/stars in my footer-include.php, so the star ratings will (hopefully) show up in the search results for all of my pages. So, here are my questions:

1) Will this work just as well as if the comments were placed on every page? If so, what is the markup that I will need to place in my footer-include.php?
2) Which markup format do you recommend for this? I know you recommend microformat in admin, but will that work for what i'm trying to do as well or would I need to use schema markup?
3) Is there anything else I need to do besides including the markup in my footer and validating? I have already enabled Rich Snippets in Admin...
4) I have about 30 reviews on other websites that I would like to manually input into Commentics. Is there any way I can manually change the dates to correspond with the dates I received the original reviews? If not, is there any way to disable dates and times in Commentics admin? I obviously wouldn't want 30 comments all showing the same date, etc...

As always, thanks so much for any help you can offer!

~ Aedryan

[Methyus]

I found where the dates can be disabled, so I will just disable them. One thing i'm realizing is, I really only want comments and star ratings enabled for the reviews, but would like to leave a lot of the other features enabled for comments in my blog. So, would it be alright if I have a whole separate Commentics installation just for reviews?

[Methyus]

Okay... What if I put something like this in my footer to reference my Reviews.php?

Code:

<span itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">Overall rating of
<span itemprop="ratingValue">5.0</span> out of 5 based on a total of
<span itemprop="reviewCount">30</span> customer reviews from the following source:

5.0 out 5 based on <a itemprop="url" href="https://www.mysite.com/Reviews.php">30 customer reviews on Mysite.com</a>
</span>

- OR -

If I wanted to reference my Reviews.php page AND multiple offsite reviews, how about this?

Code:

<span itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">Overall rating of
<span itemprop="ratingValue">5.0</span> out of 5 based on a total of
<span itemprop="reviewCount">60</span> customer reviews from the following sources:

5.0 out 5 based on <a itemprop="url" href="https://www.mysite.com/Reviews.php">30 customer reviews on Mysite.com</a>
4.8 out of 5 based on <a itemprop="url" href="https://plus.google.com/review-page">20 customer reviews at Google+</a>
5.0 out of 5 based on <a itemprop="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/review-page">10 customer reviews at Facebook</a>
</span>

Would either of these work?