Few Snippet Questions

[EricDF94]

Hi, I’m setting up the including Snippet plugin and have a few questions.

First, is it okay to leave the Organization and Address sections blank? I thought they were optional but this made me want to double check

Don’t forget to configure the plugin! You need to check the following settings to start generating Snippet for your site.

Check Organization tab for required fields: Type, Name / Business Name, Website URL
Check Address tab for required fields: Street Address, City, State/County, Zip/Postal Code

will other snippets generate okay or do all fields need to be filled in for it to work at all?

Second, in regards to the review snippet. What is the review body for? All I can find is “The actual body of the review.” So do I just copy my entire page there or is it for a smaller paragraph sized thing or is it something Snippet handles on it’s own?

Finally is there a way to add another field? In my case I would want the datePublished

[rad]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for reaching out.

I’m not really sure how the snippet standard should be implemented based on Schema or if it has issues with Search engines, but as per plugin requirements, yes they are recommended. Other fields are optional but main data are required.

You can leave them blank but the rendered snippet will be blank too, but it has no affect on other snippet data/fields. But I personally recommend to fill up the important data.

And the actual body of the review is the full-content review or the long version of the description of your review. And you should add it manually, they are just based on this schema https://schema.org/Review.

And datePublish is always the publish date of the article or post, there is no need to add that fields. And no, you can’t add new fields on existing schemas.

Thanks!

[EricDF94]

Thanks! Two more questions.

There is a checkbox saying

Enable Site Link Search Box
Redirects refined searchs on Google to Wordpress query (To see if your site is eligible, check Google Webmaster Tools).

Do you know where on Webmaster tools to check?

Second, is it possible for reviews to be put in decimals? It only has a checkbox for 1,2,3,4,5 but I would like atleast .5 intervals.

[christopher]

Hi Eric,

1. The Site Link Search Box is not for everyone. It adds the search box under the link of your website result in Google and Google does not allow everyone to have that. By enabling the option in the plugin, there is no guarantee that the message will show in Webmaster tools. If you are eligible Google will show you a warning message that it is time to set up the site link search box on the main page of the Webmaster tools. Please read this article for more information:
   https://moz.com/blog/sitelinks-search-box
   And here for the detailed implementation guide:
   https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/sitelinks-searchbox

2. No, it is not possible to have the reviews in decimal points.

It seems that you are interested in deep dive into the Schema code. Our plugin is a basic one which allows people who are not familiar with Schema code details to provide basic functionality. If you are interested in a more detailed approach I suggest that you add the code directly. You can find the code hints in the schema.org website.

Thank you.