When you create a web page, search engines find it hard to understand specific elements.  This is why SEO and structured data go hand in hand.

Structured Data helps search engines better understand what the content is specifically about. Moreover, structured data will allow users to see the value of a website before they visit, via rich snippets, which are rich data that are displayed in the SERPs.

For example, you can use it to list all the important data regarding your organization: name, address, place of business. You can also use it to add more complex data such as articles, event (or events), service (or services), product (or products), various online resources, software that people can download etc.

Structured data is a HTML markup that comes as a code.

As you can see in the image below that, adding structured data in your website will give the user the ability to showcase a rich snippet (or snippets) for example.

The additional lines of text or images in search results, as highlighted in red below :

Structured Data

Structured data can also create a good result for users.

Among other things it can provide best info regarding a company given that marketing management itself has presented that company within a page.

In that regard, it is great for optimization but can also work very well for web users.

Even though Google’s algorithm is very complex, it often fails to understand which category to assign to each information from the page. A test can be done by analyzing your personal website with Google Highlighter tool from Webmaster Tools.

In case a directory which is not using structured data is being tested, one can easily see that Google overlooks up to 80% of the data, or just doesn’t understand the meaning. Google might not understand that a string of numbers is in fact a phone number, and that’s because webmasters use different methods of listing phone numbers. This could also happen with other types of data as product name, category, location and so on.

Even though you can use any type of structured data ( Microformats, Microdata, RDFa, Data marked up using Data Highlighter), schema.org is a project recommended not only by Google, Bing and Yahoo, but also by many SEOs.

To learn more about these types of structured data, check out this page here.

http://schema.org/Product

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2650907

In order for a file to be created, you don’t have to be a top tier programmer. However, some coding skills are needed. Between Schema.org and Google Tools, community has all the system development tools at their disposal.

You don’t have to be creative during the work, all you have to do is follow schema instructions and create your own tags. Whether you’re an English language user or not, it is possible to create account rather quickly so you can get to testing.

How to see the data Google detected on your site?

  1.  Click the site you want on the Webmaster Tools Home Page
  2.  Click Search Appearance on the Dashboard
  3.  Choose Structured Data

Why structured data makes sense for SEO ?

– Google will understand much easier the site’s NAP ( name,address,phone number)

  • It will increase visibility in search engine results pages
  • Increase Click-through rate (CTR)
  • Will make it easier for Aggregator Platform as Price Comparison Websites to index your data which will Improve Return on Investment (ROI)

All in all, it’s very important to understand that structured data is very important, as it will increase visibility in search engine results pages.

What is your view on structured data? Do you use it for business description?

Share your thoughts in the comment section bellow! Also follow us on social media and make sure to read other reviews on our site!

Sergiu Draganus
CEO - GeoRanker

Sergiu Draganus is an Entrepreneur, CEO & Co-Funder of GeoRanker and Conference Speaker - open to approach any new type of analysis and suggestions related to Local SEO.

READY TO GET STARTED?

Copyright 2024 © GeoRanker. All rights reserved.