Experiences with event rich snippets?
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We've recently (in the past 6 months) implemented rich snippets into one of our websites, which lists events around the USA. We've run our code through Google's testing tools and all looks good. When we search for terms which we compete for, many of our competitors display the event sub-links in the SERPs but we still do not.
Does anyone have any experience with rich snippets with regards to whether site reputation or (we're a new website) others factors will impact if/when google will display our rich snippets in search results?
Thanks!
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I have heard of this problem before. I was about to pitch a client of setting up snippets in their ecommerce site but decided againt it because I didnt want to be held resoponsible when they invest in the development hours and Google refuses to display them for a year.
Is this common? Anyone else had similar experiences.
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Thanks for the reply. I sort of figured that it would take some time, especially with us being a new website. Just didn't want to sit back and wait if there was something we could be doing.
thx.
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Hi there, we had exactly the same problem, for a hotel review website. (otelsikayet.com)
It took Google to start showing the starts and number of comments 8 months. I am not sure if there is a way to accelerate this process, but we contacted a few people from Google but it did not help. Then afteer 8 months suddenly the SERPs started shoing our snippets.
I hope this helps.
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