Earn review stars on your result

Earn review stars on your result

Today's lesson: review stars — the little gold stars and rating number shown under some results — are a rich result that makes your listing stand out and pull more clicks.

Imagine two results side by side; the one with stars feels safer to tap.

Here's the playbook:
1. Collect real ratings on a page, like a product or recipe people can rate.
2. Add review structured data — code that labels the rating number and how many people rated — to that page.
3. Test it in Google's Rich Results Test, then make sure the stars are also visible to human visitors.

Never invent ratings; Google can penalize fake stars. They must reflect genuine reviews shown on the page.

Try this: find one page with real ratings that isn't yet showing stars. 🎓