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Content is one of the keys to the success on the internet, categorizing your content makes it more visible to the search engines and structure data will be your best friend to do it. This simple action could make you a step forward in the competitive market.  On 2011, Google, Bing and Yahoo launched an initiative called Schema.org, this project’s objective is to create and support schemas for structured data. And now this information start to be more relevant to the search engines, Google especially, uses the structure date to shows the content in a special format called Rich cards. Actually, Google.

Now, this information starts to be more relevant to the search engines, Google especially, uses the structure date to shows the content in a special format called Rich cards.

Actually, Google gives to us these options to pages enhancements: 

• Breadcrumbs
• Corporate contact information
• Carousels for sequential results
• Logos
• Sitelinks Search box
• Social profile links

Content types:

• Articles
• Books
• Courses
• Events
• Job postings
• Local businesses
• Music
• Products
• Recipes
• Tv and movies
• Videos

For each situation, needs some required information, for example, recipes we will need to specify, numbers of calories, ingredients, and time to cook. Google uses the structure data to display these categories in a different layout in the search result, in that way help the users find the right content and increase the click rate for the websites that show the content with more quality.

Ok, what about the code?

There are three different formats JSON-LD(Recommended by google), Microdata and RDFa. For a long time, I used Microdata but now I’m working with different projects again and different markups the JSON-LD makes the changes simple.

Code examples:

JSON-LD

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "http://schema.org",
  "@type": "NewsArticle",
  "mainEntityOfPage": {
    "@type": "WebPage",
    "@id": "https://google.com/article"
  },
  "headline": "Article headline",
  "image": {
    "@type": "ImageObject",
    "url": "https://google.com/thumbnail1.jpg",
    "height": 800,
    "width": 800
  },
  "datePublished": "2015-02-05T08:00:00+08:00",
  "dateModified": "2015-02-05T09:20:00+08:00",
  "author": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "John Doe"
  },
   "publisher": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Google",
    "logo": {
      "@type": "ImageObject",
      "url": "https://google.com/logo.jpg",
      "width": 600,
      "height": 60
    }
  },
  "description": "A most wonderful article"
}
</script>

Microdata

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/NewsArticle">
  <meta itemscope itemprop="mainEntityOfPage"  itemType="https://schema.org/WebPage" itemid="https://google.com/article"/>
  <h2 itemprop="headline">Article headline</h2>
  <h3 itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person">
    By <span itemprop="name">John Doe</span>
  </h3>
  <span itemprop="description">A most wonderful article</span>
  <div itemprop="image" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject">
    <img src="https://google.com/thumbnail1.jpg"/>
    <meta itemprop="url" content="https://google.com/thumbnail1.jpg">
    <meta itemprop="width" content="800">
    <meta itemprop="height" content="800">
  </div>
  <div itemprop="publisher" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization">
    <div itemprop="logo" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject">
      <img src="https://google.com/logo.jpg"/>
      <meta itemprop="url" content="https://google.com/logo.jpg">
      <meta itemprop="width" content="600">
      <meta itemprop="height" content="60">
    </div>
    <meta itemprop="name" content="Google">
  </div>
  <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2015-02-05T08:00:00+08:00"/>
  <meta itemprop="dateModified" content="2015-02-05T09:20:00+08:00"/>
</div>

As we can see above, JSON-LD we create a structure independent from the content. But we need write the same information twice. Microdata the advantage is we just need to write the content once but the information is totally markup dependent. Especially for articles, we have two different rich cards, one for pages that support AMP and other for Non-AMP pages.

Search result without AMP

Search result with AMP

After adding this information to your content we need to validate it, for that we use the Structured Data Testing Tool

If you are using WordPress there are many different plugins to use Structure data in your Website: https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/structured-data/