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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
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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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