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Google's rich snippet update - Sep 2019

         

shaunm

11:50 am on Jan 17, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Hello All,

I would like have your valuable opinion on Google's rich snippet update in Sep 2019 which I somehow find to be ambiguous.

[webmasters.googleblog.com...]

Self-serving reviews are no longer displayed for businesses and organizations (the LocalBusiness and Organization schema types). For example, we will no longer display rich review snippets for how people have reviewed a business, if those reviews are considered self-serving.


The entire page is all about LocalBusiness and Organization schema types not showing rich snippets anymore. The list of all the other supported schema types can be found on the documentation page. [developers.google.com...]

But what I don't understand is, I'm adding AggregateRating to a course page which has genuine reviews from the users. That's basically entity A adding markup about one of its course offering on a page/site belonging to entity A. As we know, the Course schema cannot be considered valid without the 'provider' attribute where you have to specify the Organization details. So, in the end, I'm just confused whether this particular page would quality for rich snippet or not according to Google’s Sep 2019 udate.

Here's the JSON-LD markup I'm adding.
URL: https://www.example.com/sem-course

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "Course",
"name": "Search Engine Marketing Certification Course",
"description": "Search Engine Marketing Certification Course by our certified Digital Marketing trainers provides advanced skills to help you succeed",
"image": "https://www.example.com/image.png",
"provider": {
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Example",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.example.com/",
"https://www.facebook.com/example/",
"https://twitter.com/example"
]
},
"aggregateRating": {
"@type": "AggregateRating",
"ratingValue": "4.6",
"reviewCount": "100",
"bestRating": "5"
},
"offers": {
"@type": "Offer",
"price": "100,00",
"priceCurrency": "USD"
}
}
</script>


Thank you for helping!

[edited by: goodroi at 1:38 pm (utc) on Jan 17, 2020]
[edit reason] Examplified [/edit]