[null,null,[],[[["\u003cp\u003eStructured data helps search engines understand web page content, enabling richer search experiences and potentially increasing traffic through enhanced search result features.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eGoogle supports various structured data formats, with JSON-LD being the recommended approach, and offers tools for website owners to assess their structured data implementation.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eWebsites using structured data have reported significant improvements, including increased traffic, user engagement, and brand visibility, as showcased in case studies.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eStructured data can be used strategically to enhance brand awareness, highlight specific content types like articles or events, and showcase product information with details like price and reviews.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eGoogle encourages website owners to explore and implement structured data using provided resources like the codelab and to share their feedback through designated channels.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],["Structured data, using schema.org vocabulary, enhances search engine understanding of web page content. Implementing it in formats like JSON-LD, Microdata, or RDFa, can lead to richer search results and increased traffic. Structured data helps highlight brand elements like logos, content types such as articles or recipes, and product information. Case studies reveal benefits, including increased traffic and user engagement. While it doesn't guarantee appearance in search results, sites can utilize codelabs and further analyze efforts with Search Console.\n"],null,["# Enriching Search Results Through Structured Data\n\n| It's been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some images may be missing, and some links may not work anymore).\n\nWednesday, April 24, 2019\n\n\nFor many years we have been recommending the use of structured data on websites to enable a\nricher search experience. When you add markup to your content, you help search engines\nunderstand the different components of a page. When Google's systems understand your page more\nclearly, Google Search can surface content through the cool features discussed in this post,\nwhich can enhance the user experience and get you more traffic.\n\n\nWe've worked hard to provide you with tools to understand how your websites are shown in Google\nSearch results and whether there are issues you can fix. To help give a complete overview of\nstructured data, we decided to do a series to explore it. This post provides a quick intro and\ndiscusses some best practices, future posts will focus on how to use Search Console to succeed\nwith structured data.\n\nWhat is structured data?\n------------------------\n\n\nStructured data is a common way of providing information about a page and its content - we\nrecommend using the schema.org vocabulary for doing so. Google supports three different formats\nof in-page markup: JSON-LD (recommended), Microdata, and RDFa. Different search features require\ndifferent kinds of structured data - you can learn more about these in our\n[search gallery](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/search-gallery). Our develo\nper documentation has more details on the\n[basics of structured data](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/intro-structured-data).\n\n\nStructured data helps Google's systems understand your content more accurately, which means it's\nbetter for users as they will get more relevant results. If you implement structured data your\npages may become eligible to be shown with an enhanced appearance in Google search results.\n| Disclaimer: Google does not guarantee that your structured data will show up in search results, even if your page is marked up correctly. Using structured data enables a feature to be present, it does not guarantee that it will be present. Learn more about [structured data guidelines](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/sd-policies).\n\nSites that use structured data see results\n------------------------------------------\n\n\nOver the years, we've seen a growing adoption of structured data in the ecosystem. In general,\nrich results help users to better understand how your pages are relevant to their searches, so\nthey translate into success for websites. Here are some results that are showcased in our\n[case studies gallery](/search/case-studies):\n\n- Eventbrite leveraged event structured data and saw 100% increase in the typical YOY growth of traffic from search.\n- Jobrapido integrated with the job experience on Google Search and saw 115% increase in organic traffic, 270% increase of new user registrations from organic traffic, and 15% lower bounce rate for Google visitors to job pages.\n- Rakuten used the recipe search experience and saw a 2.7X increase in traffic from search engines and a 1.5X increase in session duration.\n\nHow to use structured data?\n---------------------------\n\n\nThere are a few ways your site could benefit from structured data. Below we discuss some examples\ngrouped by different types of goals: increase brand awareness, highlight content, and highlight\nproduct information.\n\n### Increase brand awareness\n\n\nOne thing you can do to promote your brand with structured data is to take advantage of features\nsuch as\n[Logo](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/organization#logo),\n[Local business](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/local-business), and\n[Sitelinks searchbox](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/sitelinks-searchbox). In\naddition to adding structured data, you should\n[verify your site](https://support.google.com/knowledgepanel/answer/7534902)\nfor the Knowledge Panel and\n[claim your Business Profile](https://support.google.com/business/answer/2911778).\nHere is an example of the knowledge panel with a Logo.\n\n### Highlight content\n\n\nIf you publish content on the web, there are a number of features that can help promote your\ncontent and attract more users, depending on your industry. For example:\n[Article](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/article),\n[Breadcrumb](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/breadcrumb),\n[Event](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/event),\n[Job](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/job-posting),\n[Q\\&A](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/qapage),\n[Recipe](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/recipe),\n[Review](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/review-snippet)\nand others. Here is an example of a recipe rich result.\n\n### Highlight product information\n\n\nIf you sell merchandise, you could add\n[product](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/product)\nstructured data to your page, including price, availability, and review ratings. Here is how your\nproduct might show for a relevant search.\n\nTry it and let us know\n----------------------\n\n\nNow that you understand the importance of structured data, try our\n[codelab](https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/structured-data/index.html#0)\nto learn how to add it to your pages. Stay tuned to learn more about structured data, in the\ncoming posts we'll be discussing how to use Search Console to better analyze your efforts.\n\n\nWe would love to hear your thoughts and stories on how structured data works for you, send us any feedback either through\n[Twitter](https://twitter.com/googlesearchc) or\n[our forum](https://support.google.com/webmasters/threads?thread_filter=(category:structured_data)).\n\n\nPosted by\n[Daniel Waisberg](https://www.danielwaisberg.com), Search Advocate"]]