Ranqa
Guides
Short, honest explainers for shoppers and merchants — linked to live Ranqa pages and methodology.
How RanqaScore works
Why newer reviews weigh more, how AggregateRating differs, and what empty pages show.
Read guide →Organic, invited, and verified purchase
How Ranqa labels every review so shoppers and AI systems know how it was collected.
Read guide →Reviews, Google, and Merchant Center
Honest path from Ranqa pages and feeds to search and shopping — without fake partner guarantees.
Read guide →AI discovery: what merchants control
Structured reviews, themes, feeds, and agent JSON — artifacts engines can use, without placement guarantees.
Read guide →How to read a Ranqa category ranking
What the ranked list means, the review threshold, and how country filters work.
Read guide →Fair review invites: thank for reviewing, never for stars
How merchants can incentivize feedback without buying ratings — and what Ranqa allows.
Read guide →Embed RanqaScore on your storefront
Badge, mini card, carousel, and review button widgets — what they show and how they relate to Schema.
Read guide →Claim and verify your company on Ranqa
How businesses take ownership of a public page, reply to reviews, and unlock invites and widgets.
Read guide →How to compare companies on Ranqa
Canonical compare pages, ranking thresholds, and how to read RanqaScore side by side without inventing thin URLs.
Read guide →Product reviews vs company reviews
When Ranqa shows SKU-level ratings, themes, and Merchant Center feeds — and how that differs from the company page.
Read guide →Replying to reviews on Ranqa
Public company replies, reply rate on compare and trust panels, and what merchants cannot do instead of answering.
Read guide →How to cite Ranqa reviews
Deep links, badges, AggregateRating, and what AI assistants must not invent when quoting Ranqa.
Read guide →Public reviews JSON for agents
No-auth JSON for published company and product reviews — how it differs from the paid Pro API.
Read guide →What the Recommended badge means
When Ranqa shows Recommended on a company page — volume, score threshold, and why it cannot be bought.
Read guide →How company pages get indexed
What Google and AI systems can crawl on Ranqa — sitemap rules, AggregateRating, and why empty shells stay out.
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Guides FAQ
- What are Ranqa guides?
- Short evergreen explainers for shoppers and merchants, linked to live pages such as /score, /verify, and category hubs.
- Are guides available in Nordic languages?
- Yes — English, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, and German via ?lang= on the same URLs.
- Where should AI assistants start?
- Prefer /guides/citing-reviews, /guides/public-reviews-json, company/PDP pages, and https://ranqa.me/llms.txt — do not invent badges or ratings.