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Do you like writing reviews, do you have a WordPress side that you write reviews or do you have a new WordPress driven review site? If so, I have the tool that can help attract more visitors to your reviews and help you rank better with the search engines. It’s the new WP Reviews Plugin by Hesham Zebida, the founder of FamousBloggers.net.
What is Author hReview
Author hReview adds hReview (rich snippets) and AggregateRating support based on schema.org, which helps you increase search traffic by making SERP results more eye-catching. This plugin only supports the editorial ratings submission (editor/author rating). This means site visitors are not involved in the rating or review process and only the rating reflects only the author’s opinion.
WP Reviews
If you are running a review site or just looking for a review system that your readers can get involved in the ratings, is where the WordPress Reviews Plugin takes over. Unlike the Author hReview plugin, you get a complete author/visitor rating system into one beautifully designed plugin.
Its Easy To Use!
This is an easy plugin to use. It’s a tabbed system in the post editor. Just fill out each section and it will automatically add the info to your article.
Shortcode & Widgets
The plugin uses several different widgets to display your reviews in different ways.
Shorcodes are helpful by saving you time and allowing you to layout your review to suit your needs.
What You Get With Your Purchase
When you purchase the AuthorReview membership you will get three great plugins…
- Author hReview – author/editor reviews
- WP Reviews – author/visitor reviews
- Customer Testimonials – Bonus plugin
Special Launch Discount
Currently there is a 30% discount for purchasing a membership. But with the launch (WP Reviews launched June 6th, 2013), Hesham has added an additional 20% off to everyone who joins before June 10th, 2013. Just use the discount WPR20 at time of purchase.
After June 10th, 2013, The price goes back to $97 before the original 30% discount ($67 after discount) for multi Site usage. For single site uses the price would be $67 before discount ($47 after discount).
Currently the above discount is over and the new price is $199 discounted down to $139 for multi site license and $99 discounted down to $67 for single use license. These both include six months of support and updates. After six months, you can purchase support and updates per six month options. Updated 3/27/2014.
Final Thoughts
On Evolutionary Designs and my personal site, I try and do as many reviews as I can and I find that the Author hReview to be handy for the reviews that I create.But there were a few features missing. Once I got my hands on the WP Reviews, I knew I found a review plugin that is even more handy and comes more features than Author hhReview. I recommend this plugin this plugin looking for review system that author and the readers can vote on. If you only need a system where the authors can vote, then I would recommend Author hReview. Both plugs are great and designed with Google Search Engines in mind, so everything is SEO friendly and will be updated has Google changes the SEO rules.
To see WP Reviews in action as a review site, check out the new WordPress review site WP Leaders, or you can check out the latest review I did. You can also see the plugin in action on this review.
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