: Structured data blog post vs review I have a blog on my website. I write articles on it and product reviews. When using structured data, how should I markup the blog post and review? I am

@Eichhorn148

The first question you should answer is why. Why do you want to use structured data? What do you want to achieve with it?

If you want to get rich snippets displayed for your blog in SERPs, so you should use only limited set of types and properties. They are:

for blog posts: only rating of a certain article;

shown rich snippet: rating stars and amount of votes

schema.org/AggregateRating

for closes reviews: rating, product and offer data;

shown rich snippets: product price, availability, rating stars and amount of votes

schema.org/Review
schema.org/Product http://schema.org/Offer schema.org/AggregateRating

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@Ann8826881

You could use both types, BlogPosting and Review.

That’s perfectly fine in RDFa and JSON-LD. In Microdata, it’s allowed to use multiple types, too, but it’s (strictly speaking) not allowed to use properties that aren’t defined for all these types; many ignore this restriction, though (and I think Schema.org intends to explicitly allow this for their vocabulary).

(A less ideal solution for Microdata is to use the additionalType property, but that doesn’t allow you to use the properties from this additional type.)

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@Phylliss660

Anwser edited:

On second thought. You don't have to choose. You can use BlogPosting and in the about field you use Review directly or choose Product and use its review field.

<article itemprop="blogPost" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting">
<h1 itemprop="name headline">some clothing review</h1>
<p>
<time datetime="2015-03-26T10:43:39Z" itemprop="datePublished">26 Mar 2015</time>
</p>
<img itemprop="image" src="some_clothing_item.jpg" alt="some clothing item" />
<div itemprop="about" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<span itemprop="brand">ACME</span>
<span itemprop="name">some clothing item</span>

<span itemprop="description">description here...</span>
<div itemprop="review" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">
<span itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating">
<span itemprop="ratingValue">4</span>
</span> stars stars by <span itemprop="author">me</span>
<div itemprop="reviewBody">
<p>a very stylish .....</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</article>


Original anwser:
Is schema.org/Review what you are looking for?

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