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Playbook · April 2026

Google Shopping Stars — The PLA Playbook

Stars on PLAs lift CTR an average 27%. Here's how to qualify, certify and keep them lit.

  • 30 pages
  • 13 min read
  • For: seo lead, cmo, ecommerce leader
Rohin Aggarwal

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Google Shopping Stars — The PLA Playbook

What you’ll learn

  • The Google Customer Reviews vs Licensed Partner paths — when to use which
  • A schema audit you can run in 10 minutes
  • How to keep stars from disappearing during a site migration
  • The 30-review minimum: a 90-day collection plan to hit it
  • A defensive checklist for when stars drop without explanation

Chapter previews

  1. Chapter 01

    Where stars actually appear

    PLA cards, Knowledge Panel, organic snippets, Shopping tab. CTR lift is not uniform — we break it down by surface.

  2. Chapter 02

    Qualifying for stars

    The 30-review-per-product / 50-review-per-seller threshold. Aggregation rules. The "no shoehorned reviews" trap.

  3. Chapter 03

    Schema + structured data

    AggregateRating, Review, Product. The validator-passing JSON-LD shape that survives Google's reviewer pass.

  4. Chapter 04

    Idukki + Google Customer Reviews

    How our integration submits + retrieves stars without you running a second collection flow.

  5. Chapter 05

    Recovering disappeared stars

    The seven causes of star loss and the playbook for each — including the "you got penalised but didn't know" case.

+27% PLA CTR within six weeks of going live. Cheaper than any bid adjustment we've ever made.
Tomás Costa · SEO Lead, Atelier Marés
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  • How to keep stars from disappearing during a site migration

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