RankGear checks whether a page’s body HTML carries the Microformats2 p-review property, returning 1 when it finds class="p-review" and 0 when it does not. The check confirms the markup is present — not that the review it labels is genuine, complete, or attached to a valid parent item.
| Factor ID | RG-SCF-017 |
|---|---|
| Family | Structured Data – MicroFormat |
| Measurement | Binary presence (0 / 1) |
| Measured zone | Body HTML without scripts |
What it measures
This factor detects the p-review Microformats2 property in the rendered body HTML. In Microformats2, p-review is the plain-text property that marks a review associated with an item — for example, a written assessment tied to a product, place, or piece of content. RankGear records only whether that property appears, expressed as a single yes/no signal.
How RankGear measures it
RankGear performs a case-insensitive, exact search for the string class="p-review" across the page’s body HTML with scripts removed, and returns 1 when it is found and 0 when it is not. The match is on the exact single-class formatting; it is a literal presence check, not a validator of the surrounding markup.
What RankGear looks for
<div class="h-review">
<p class="p-review">Solid build quality and easy setup, though battery life is average.</p>
</div>| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 1 | class="p-review" was found in the body HTML. |
| 0 | The property was not present (or was formatted with additional classes or different casing of the attribute). |
How to optimize it
Use p-review only where the Microformats2 vocabulary genuinely calls for a review property tied to visible content on the page. Treat this factor as an observation of your markup rather than a target to chase: adding the class where no real review exists does not improve the underlying page, and RankGear only reports whether the property is present. Where you do publish reviews, applying the exact single-class formatting ensures the property is detected as intended.
Important considerations
- Exact single-class formatting is required — the check matches
class="p-review"literally. - Presence does not verify authenticity: the signal confirms the markup, not that the review is real.
- The check does not validate the parent item (for example, the enclosing
h-revieworh-product). - Avoid duplicated or fabricated review markup added solely to trigger the property.
- This is a correlation-based prioritization signal within a measured result set, not a guarantee of ranking — the presence of
p-reviewdoes not, by itself, make a page rank.
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