Google has clarified in its search developer paperwork that JSON-LD, Microdata and RDFa are all absolutely supported types for structured information and Google Search. Google wrote, “all three supported codecs are equally high quality for Google, so long as they’re legitimate and carried out correctly per the function’s documentation.”
The outdated paragraph within the documentation learn:
Google Search helps structured information within the following codecs, except documented in any other case:
The new paragraph within the documentation now reads:
Google Search helps structured information within the following codecs, except documented in any other case. On the whole, we advocate utilizing a format that is best so that you can implement and preserve (typically, that is JSON-LD); all 3 codecs are equally high quality for Google, so long as the markup is legitimate and correctly carried out per the function’s documentation.
This was up to date as a result of Google’s Ryan Levering noticed the embedded tweet under, that reveals there’s confusion on which Google might or might not choose. Ryan stated, “We would must tweak the wording for Google’s important structured information web page.”
He stated that Google “primarily advocate JSON-LD as a result of websites screw up Microdata much more than they do JSON-LD as a result of it is embedded. We do not have some secret plans to take away help for Microdata. Notably for schema that’s both very annotation/textual content heavy or quite simple (so that you need not do meta tag gymnastics), Microdata could make extra sense.”
Attention-grabbing that they’re utilizing ProfilePage markup for particular person creator pages. And wow, one way or the other it isn’t in JSON-LD lol, however in microdata. okay okay 🤔 https://t.co/XKWZbzzMbL pic.twitter.com/Q0MQzG6W99
— 🐝 Olesia Korobka 💙💛🐝 (@Giridja) February 1, 2023
So Lizzi Sassman up to date the docs to mirror this.
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