How can I leverage Places/Yelp Reviews for Attorney Schema?

[VistageSEO]

A little confused by this. We have some on site reviews, is all I need is to reference that? What if we don't have "products", only "services"......should i be leveraging Places/Yelp reviews for this? Anyone add review schema for services?

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Vistage SEO!
Okay, I'm glad I understood. Now, this might be easiest for you, if your website happens to be WordPress based. It's a WP plugin for schema encoded reviews:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/review-schema-markup/

If your site isn't WordPress based, Search Engine Watch coincidentally just published a really good piece on this topic today:

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2223886/How-to-Add-Reviews-to-Your-Site-Using-Schema-Structured-Data-Markup

I think you will find that article answers pretty much all questions you might have on this. If anything isn't clear after looking over these two resources, please come back and ask.  Good luck!

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Vistage SEO! Okay, I'm glad I understood. Now, this might be easiest for you, if your website happens to be WordPress based. It's a WP plugin for schema encoded reviews: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/review-schema-markup/ If your site isn't WordPress based, Search Engine Watch coincidentally just published a really good piece on this topic today: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2223886/How-to-Add-Reviews-to-Your-Site-Using-Schema-Structured-Data-Markup I think you will find that article answers pretty much all questions you might have on this. If anything isn't clear after looking over these two resources, please come back and ask. Good luck!

[VistageSEO]

I think you got it just right Miriam! Thanks.

We also have a page on the site with about 20 client testimonials. Would it be appropriate to somehow place review schema on that page instead of republishing the Yelp and Google Reviews?

Just a little confused with the "rating scale maximum" and "rating scale minimum" fields in schema and how you would properly use those....

I guess there are a few questions wrapped up in this one.

Thank you!

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Vistage, I'm not totally certain I understand your questions. Are you saying you have reviews on Google+ and Yelp asking whether you should republish Yelp and Google based reviews on your website using schema? If so, the answer is no. Do not republish reviews on your website. You can certainly link from your website to your review profiles, but you should not take the content and reprint it on your site, using schema or anything else. Does this answer your question, or am I not understanding what you're hoping to know? Please, just let me know!