How to show stars in google search results - magento

I have a Magento site and some products have star rating.
I would like to add these to the google search results like here below:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/vWjv4.gif
How can I do this?

You need to change the design of the reviews templates on the product page to include Google Microdata. Read more about it here

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Microdata and Json-ld

I have an e-commerce website , so to markup my products i am using schema.org vocabulary.
However, previously i used microdata and google seo recognised it as a structured data and i can see my items in the structured data column.
But, when i click the Rich cards feature, it doesn't show up any markup for my products.
So what i did was i used json-ld as well.Now, if i were to go to https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool and fetch my url there, i can see 26 products instead of 13.
I get it ,i used both of them hence twice the no of products.
What i wanted to know was , why am i not be able to see rich cards and if i mix both of them , does that hinder google search results?

adding authorship markup to products

Hi I am looking to put authorship markup to my flowers products as all are made in house by designer florist. Any ideas how I would implement that to a product. I would also like to mention that the site is using the BigCommerce engine.
Flower Delivery Store
You could manually add a link to the author within the product description.
You can add the markup into your Bigcommerce product template. You will want to mark up more data than just the author - the item & other details - as well.

Should Magento sitemap contain empty categories?

From SEO point of view, isn't it dangerous to give out a page without any practical value? If you advertise to have content for a particular category, but you actually don't, wouldn't that make the poeple who clicked on the link to just move along?
More importantly, would the empty category not make guys working at Google mark your website as spammy? Cause you have 100 categories in your sitemap, and only 10 actually contain products?
If you are not using them for content or other presentation you should hide/disable categories that are empty until you have products in them.

Is there a way to change Magento dynamic faceted search pages into static pages?

I've just been given the task of turning around a site's plummeting SEO. One of their issues is their well ranking deep products have now been cut off due to them now being shown as part of a dynamic faceted search option. It can't and won't be indexed and the faceted search is important to the way they need to display their products.
You could create a rewrite rule to make it appear like they are static pages, but I would recommend not doing that.
Ask yourself if Google would want to crawl search result pages: probably not. It's very common to NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW search result and tags pages because they are low quality in terms of content.
Here's a free extension to help you accomplish just that.
Here's a helpful article on SEO in relation to Magento.
Sounds like they got hit by Panda/Penguin. You should be focusing on building links to your main categories and your homepage. Clean up poor quality pages (eg search result pages). Build deep links to products that perform well, but vary your anchor tags considerably. Without a link we can't give much more advice than that.

Magento: Fastest way to hide empty categories in Magento frontend?

What I'm trying to do seems trivial but I've been looking on Google for this for the past 3 hours and can't find it...
--> I'm just trying to list the categories of my website but hide those that are empty AND that all their subcategories are also empty (no products).
Shouldn't that be easy to do?? Everything I've found seems utterly complicated or custom-coded. Am I the only one that doesn't want to show empty categories?
Note: I'm using Magento 1.3.2.4, I don't want to manually hide categories in backend.
There is an article about that from Pratski :
Display Only If There Are Products In The Category

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