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These days, a lot of people turn to the internet to find out whether a product or service is worth purchasing. If you happen to be an expert on a particular subject, there’s nothing stopping you from creating your own reviews. If you want to make the most of those reviews, learning how to add review summaries to your WordPress articles is an easy way to improve their effectiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In fact, online reviews remain a major factor in purchase decisions [1]<\/sup>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best way to convince readers to trust your opinions is by making your reviews as professional as possible. That means including images, backing up your statements with reliable sources, and including review summary sections to tie everything together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, we’ll explain what review summary sections are, why they’re so effective<\/a>, and how you can set one<\/a> up on your WordPress website using the Otter Blocks plugin. It’s the same plugin we use for reviews on this blog that you’re reading right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Four key benefits of review summaries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As its name implies, a review summary is a short section – usually located at the end of an article – which briefly sums up the most important points. If you’ve read some of our hosting reviews (like this one)<\/a>, you’ll notice we like to include review summaries at the end. They look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Review summaries might seem redundant, since they don’t contain any new information. However, they offer several benefits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Increased readability<\/strong>. A lot of people skim through online content – they only look for the information they care the most about [2]<\/sup>. Review summaries enable those readers to find what they need quickly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Highlighting key findings<\/strong>. Review summaries provide a nice format to highlight the most important points in your articles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Positive visual impact<\/strong>. If properly styled (which we’ll teach you how to do), a review summary section can look professional, and will bolster the overall look of your website.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Increased Search Engine Optimization (SEO)<\/strong>. Review summaries can also help search engines better understand your review content when combined with Schema markup [3]<\/sup>. This code can make pages eligible for rich results and improve how they appear in search, but it doesn’t guarantee higher rankings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Now that we know the why, it’s time to get to the how. As usual, WordPress enables us to implement this feature using a simple plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    How to add review summaries to your WordPress website (in 3 steps)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    For this section, we’ll be using the same plugin that powers our review summary sections throughout Themeisle – Otter Blocks<\/strong>. It’s a free plugin with review functionality built in.<\/p>\n\n\n

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