If like me, you are an avid fan of Jay and his WAbinars, you will have watched his awesome on called Ninja SERPs Strategies. If not it is well worth checking out.

From watching the WAbinar and reading the forum responses and the live chat discussions, it became clear that Rich Snippets or Schema is not something that most people can get to grips with easily.

I will happily admit that it took me some time to understand and there's bits I still need to look up quite often.

So I decided to create a Wordpress plugin based on what Jay had done.

In short it creates a review box that can be used on posts or pages which has the following:

• Title: For keyword or phrase
• Author: Needed for the Rich Snippets
• Image: For show and links with your affiliate link
• Rating: Shows stars 1-5 with half stars available
• Summary: A quick summary description of the product/item

In the options you can link to your Google plus account, which is necessary for the Rich Snippets to work.

In turn this will then add the star rating into the search results page on Google:

http://www.apinapress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/proof_thesis_theme.jpg

Now the plugin wont do everything for you, you will need to add your websites to your Google Plus account in order to make it work http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=98085&topic=1257354&ctx=topic

And lastly there is no guarantee that Google will show the stars, they have stated this fact in their Rich Snippets Testing Tool documentation and I have seen this personally.

I was waiting for two weeks for the stars to show on an ApinaPress article, they never appeared, still haven't. But my Thesis review shown above they did, another site I used it on they appeared quickly too.

So it really is just up to Google at the end of the day.

This plugin is available FREE from the Wordpress directory here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ap-schema/

If you do want to support my efforts, donations are always cool, sharing on social networks is awesome and feedback and constructive criticism is even better

I really hope that this plugin will help people out and I am more than happy to actively update the plugin should there be enough demand for it.

Dean