{"id":"84809d7c-879a-4e85-ae27-cde371afb6df","task":"Add AggregateRating structured data to a product or service page to qualify for review star display in Google Search, while complying with first-party review policies","domain":"developers.google.com","steps":["Add an 'aggregateRating' property inside your Product, LocalBusiness, or Service JSON-LD block with 'ratingValue' (numeric), 'bestRating', 'worstRating', and 'reviewCount' or 'ratingCount'","Ensure 'ratingValue' is within the 'worstRating' to 'bestRating' range; Google defaults bestRating to 5 and worstRating to 1 if omitted","Only include aggregated ratings that reflect genuine reviews from real users — self-created, incentivized, or duplicated reviews violate Google's review snippet guidelines","Do not add 'aggregateRating' to pages that are not about a specific, identifiable item — site-level or author-level ratings on unrelated pages are not eligible","Validate with the Rich Results Test to confirm the 'Review snippet' or 'Product' rich result type is detected without errors","Monitor the 'Review snippets' report in Search Console for 'Invalid items detected' alerts that indicate policy or markup problems"],"gotchas":["AggregateRating is not a standalone eligible rich result type — it must be nested inside an eligible parent type such as Product, Recipe, LocalBusiness, or Course","Google's review snippet policy prohibits first-party reviews (where the reviewed entity writes its own reviews); violations result in manual actions that remove review stars from all pages on the property","Using 'reviewCount': 0 or very low counts on a page that shows star ratings visually creates a mismatch that can suppress the rich result"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-12T21:31:53.984Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:44:12.974Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/84809d7c-879a-4e85-ae27-cde371afb6df"}