sybrew
Google My Business integration and/or Gutenberg Block
Interesting would be the possibility of Google myBusiness to display ratings. Keywords: RichSnippet and/or also as single Gutenberg Block.
I don't think this should be a part of The SEO Framework; it doesn't contribute to ranking or search engine display. From what I gather, we only connect to Google My Business' API, and display the information retrieved?
Do you have more in-depth information on this?
Ingenious that you are so open and detailed ;-)
I don't think this should be a part of The SEO Framework; it doesn't contribute to ranking or search engine display.
Well, I don't see it that way. This article is interesting: https://backlinko.com/hub/seo/snippets So this clearly has something to do with the CTR and the organic ranking.
So if I can display my Google My Business asterisks in the SERPs, then this is an optimization and it sets me apart from my SERP competitors.
Some inspirations:
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-places-reviews/
- https://www.seopress.org/features/google-structured-data-types/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/schema-and-structured-data-for-wp/
And for the widget:
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-google-reviews/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-places-review-slider/
Does that help?
Yes, it does! 😄
I am a bit wary about the fact that Google requires you to display the relayed information on your site. This is where the Gutenberg block comes in you suggested. It'll be a prominent requirement.
With that, I'll mark this for "maybe later," because I have yet to dive into creating blocks. Gutenberg's API is all over the place as well (for example, they want to remove lodash (source)).
Lastly, I don't have the time (yet) to maintain these. I'm already working 80+ hours a week 😅, and I hope the release of TSF 4.0 will shave off a dozen or so hours. That said, developers are free to add extensions. See https://tsf.fyi/contributing.