Adobe Muse Ratings and Reviews Widget.
Add ratings and reviews to your website and show them in Google Search engine results page (SERP). Reviews and ratings are indicators of quality, confidence and credibility. Now you can show your positive reviews of your Adobe Muse website pages in Google and standout from your competition.
Displaying rich snippets increases click through rates (CTR) and will attract more potential customers. In a Google search, star ratings will draw customers attention to that page and will encourage them to click on that URL than on others that do not have any ratings.
Screenshot of how your Google results will look like.
Visitors are more likely to purchase from sites which have star ratings and they also trust more the reviews from other customers than your own descriptions. Customers will want to see other customers recommendations before purchasing or visiting your site.
MAIN FEATURES
- No Database required.
- You can use this widget on one page or multiple URL.
- This widget uses schema markups.
- Based on CSV files that any PHP compatible server without database should be able to read and write. Note that Business Catalyst Hosting does not support PHP.
- Nice pagination with different effects.
- Styling options to customize the widget as you like.
- Control Panel with protected login.
- Read, modify and delete reviews via Control Panel.
- Export & backup your comments with one click (CSV Download).
- Export reviews and open them with Excel.
- You can set “Default” font and use any Typekit or web font selected in Adobe Muse.
- Ajax coding: reduces spam a lot since spam bots will not be able to see the submit form.
UPDATE V2
- Bug fixes.
- Added compatibility with special characters from different languages.
- Added compatibility with adaptive Muse sites.
- Added optional absolute path widget where you can set your absolute ratings.php URL. That will allow you to run this widget in complex Muse sites.
UPDATE V3
- Anti spam protection added: Google reCAPTCHA V2.
- Get your site reCAPTCHA V2 API key for free at https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin
- Leave empty API key to disable captcha. Remember to replace test API key for your own to remove “testing purposes” message.
- Small bugs fixed (27/11/2017).
HOW DOES IT WORK
- Open & edit ratings.php with Notepad++ (or another software that will not change file encoding).
- Change at least username, password and csvname values (do not use default values to increase security).
- Add Widget element into your Muse Workspace.
- Attach ratings.php file in widget settings, you will see how preview changes showing you dummy comments.
- Customize as you want and upload your website to any PHP compatible server.
- Once you have uploaded it, write your first comment and refresh page to see reviews and ratings results over submit form.
- You should take into account that these form elements are not editable directly in Adobe Muse nor you can add more fields, so to control the form layout you must use the widget settings.
HOW TO ACCESS BACKEND
- If you did not change your filename, your backend login screen will appear in https://yoursite.com/assets/ratings.php
- Visit control panel URL and enter the username and password you set up previously.
- Using control panel you can check all comments received, edit or delete them.
ACCESS CONTROL PANEL DEMO
We do not provide user and password to demo to keep our comments clean. If you want to try control panel, contact us.
URL: https://responsive-muse.com/demos/widget-rating-reviews/assets/ratings.php
Doga –
Great release!
ChristianH –
Amazing product and never seen in Muse before, keep up good work 🙂
Robert Bright –
Really nice widget!! keep up doing this good stuff!
Tsianos –
improved with the update
Kate –
No issues at all on my site. Love it 🙂
Brad Pit –
Gran programa
Toni –
After some problems on my server it’s working now, support team help was good
Lorenzo –
ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! I got the stars to appear in Google results.
patrick.putschelik (verified owner) –
Hi,
my reviews dont show up on other devices. If i send a test review it appears on my computer for a while and then disappears.. But in the CSV control Panel i can see all the sent reviews.
Someone got a solution ?
But still great work! Thanks a lot.
responsive-muse –
Hello!
Thanks for your rating 🙂
That usually means that you have different URLs versions of your site (with or without www, with or without https).
That’s a common problem what will make the reviews showing only in the URL where they were left.
Please, check this ticket reply for another user.
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It is a common SEO mistake that a lot of sites may experience that both www and non www versions are accesible.
For any web tool and search engines, www and non www versions are different pages, so we coded our tool to work like the standard.
To correct this you should choose what version of your site do you want (with or without www) and then use a redirection. That redirection will automatically redirect you to the chosen page.
You can check this to better understanding:
https://responsive-muse.com/ -> our main domainhttps://www.responsive-muse.com/ -> we do not like this one, so it will automatically redirect you to the main domain
Creating a redirection should be easy, but it depends on your hosting provider. It is usually done using a .htaccess file in your main FTP folder.
Some info about htaccess redirection:
http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/htaccess/force-www-htaccess
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/234723/generic-htaccess-redirect-www-to-non-www
Anyway, your hosting support should provide you instructions about how to do this in your server.
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