Displaying star rating with Discourse is easy. I am happy to share, It can be done in simple few steps
Process
Setup Google Tag Manager for your Discourse Application
Add a new HTML Tag containing JSON-LD markup
Filter trigger by page view for particular URL
Publish, wait for 24 hrs to see the result in SERPs.
Thanks
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Interesting. Where are you getting the rating from, Google?
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neil
(Neil Lalonde)
April 1, 2018, 3:40pm
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Looks interesting and useful for other types of integrations with tag manager. Can you show what to add in head section of Discourse?
Just by editing Theme, I added Tag Manager Script in the </head>
section.
neil
(Neil Lalonde)
April 1, 2018, 4:18pm
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Oh but Discourse has a setting to do that for you. Search settings for GTM.
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Good to know, we can add GTM script via Settings. Thanks for the hint about better way.
Updated, above quick guide.
@neil There is one problem when I add GTM script via Discourse settings, it places inside body.
Expected : It should be in the head.
Previously, it was recommended by Google to place in the body.
But now , they have updated their guidelines: “Paste this code as high in the <head> of the page as possible”.
Can we make this possible?
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neil
(Neil Lalonde)
April 1, 2018, 11:49pm
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Thanks for pointing that out. Yes we should change it to be in the head. Added to my list.
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riking
(Kane York)
April 2, 2018, 5:21am
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“As high in the <head>
as possible”
… I think they’re just being greedy there. A normal position in the head should be fine.
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angus
(Angus McLeod)
April 2, 2018, 5:57am
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Depending on the kind of rating you’re after you can also use the ratings plugin , which automatically adds the average rating for a topic as structured data to the topic page html.
Example from a user here: Topic Ratings Plugin
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neil
(Neil Lalonde)
April 3, 2018, 7:26pm
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@Gulshan_Kumar I updated our GTM support today so it adds the code to the head and the body according to the new instructions.
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PoojaPatel
(Pooja Patel)
April 14, 2019, 2:19pm
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Currently I could not see star rating showing in SERP for above two post.
Bunny CDN Review.
Obstetrics and Cynecology at studmed.dk
@Gulshan_Kumar - are you removing star rating in gtm or use any method?
The method which I suggested (using GTM+JSON-LD for star rating) works completely fine. You can continue to use it.
In my case, I intentionally removed from that post due to some personal reason. Nothing else.
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