Two criticals issues on Product Schema Markup

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    Hello,

    We found 2 critical default Product Schema Markup issues with Rank Math SEO. It negatively affects big websites with lots of reviews:

    1. Rank Math SEO displays all reviews into the LD+JSON Schema Markup: it increases the DOM and the loading page. It’s not compliant with Google SEO recommendations.

    The good behaviour will be that only show in Schema Markup the reviews display in the HTML (not the reviews are display with the Ajax “Load more” button). Here a reference: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/22540382/how-many-review-should-be-iclude-in-review-schema?hl=en

    – Google Guidelines: Make sure the reviews and ratings you mark up are readily available to users from the marked-up page. It should be immediately obvious to users that the page has review content.

    – It increases a lot the DOM and the loading page speed that negatively impacts the SEO. Think page products who have 1000+ reviews with each ReviewBody of 20 words (you display 20 000 words in the schema.org)

    – All big websites have in their Schema Markup only visible reviews on the page.

    – Google have already all reviews rating with “aggregateRating”:{“@type”:”AggregateRating”,”ratingValue”:”4.30″,”bestRating”:”5″,”ratingCount”:”1000″,”reviewCount”:”1000″}.

    2. You use an incorrect name into Product Schema Markup: you have to write “reviewBody” instead of “description” for the review content.

    Thank you.

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  • To be clear, if I disable Rank Math SEO, Woocommerce add only the visible reviews and not all reviews into the Schema Markup (on my website is only show 5 last reviews instead of 300+ reviews). I think you have to change Rank Math behavior and keep native Woocommerce behavior. The good one otherwise you kill SEO of big website with lot of reviews, the opposite of what you should do.

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

    We appreciate you taking the time to create a thorough explanation of the situation and we are going to report this back to the dev team for further evaluation.

    Our team is always looking into ways to improve performance and this is one use case that might need more work to get the performance a little bit better.

    This ticket will be attached with the issue in our repository where we’ll discuss this and when we have new information we’ll also update this ticket.

    Thank you for the feedback.

    If you have any other questions or suggestions don’t hesitate to get in touch.​​​​

    Hello Miguel,

    Thank you, hope my ticket could help to improve Rank Math SEO. Otherwise it is a very good plugin.

    Don’t hesitate if you need any more information. I hope it’s clear.

    Have a great day.

    Hello,

    Everything is pretty clear and you did a good job explaining the situation with the examples and sources.

    We’ll just need some time to assess the situation with the dev team and see what we can do in regards to this in the future.

    Thank you.

    Hello,

    Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

    If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.

    Thank you.

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