Review

Review Schema

Best for: Product reviews, business reviews, service reviews, editorial evaluations.

Rich results unlocked: Star rating, review excerpt, author name and publication date visible in Google results.

Plan: Basic+

Key properties

• itemReviewed — the item being reviewed. Supported types: Product, Movie, Book, Restaurant, LocalBusiness, SoftwareApplication, MobileApplication, Course, Service
• reviewBody — the full review text *(required)*
• reviewRating — rating object with ratingValue, bestRating (usually 5) and worstRating (usually 1)
• author — reviewer name and optional profile URL *(required)*
• datePublished — publication date *(recommended)*
• positiveNotes — pros list (repeatable)
• negativeNotes — cons list (repeatable)

Note on aggregate ratings

For pages that aggregate multiple reviews, use AggregateRating (typically nested inside a Product or LocalBusiness schema) instead of individual Review schemas. Aggregate ratings are more commonly displayed as rich results than single reviews.