[[{"@type":["BlogPosting"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.schemaapp.com\/schema-markup\/how-to-manage-your-schema-markup\/#BlogPosting","@context":{"@vocab":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","kg":"http:\/\/g.co\/kg"},"url":"https:\/\/www.schemaapp.com\/schema-markup\/how-to-manage-your-schema-markup\/","publisher":[{"@id":"https:\/\/www.schemaapp.com\/#Organization"}],"audience":"https:\/\/schema.org\/PeopleAudience","inLanguage":[{"@type":"Language","@id":"https:\/\/www.schemaapp.com\/schema-markup\/how-to-manage-your-schema-markup\/#BlogPosting_inLanguage_Language","name":"English"}],"mentions":[{"@id":"https:\/\/www.schemaapp.com\/entity#Thing19"},{"@id":"https:\/\/www.schemaapp.com\/entity#Thing6"}],"dateModified":"2023-08-28T20:05:42+00:00","headline":"How to Manage Your Schema Markup","datePublished":"2023-08-25T21:37:53+00:00","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.schemaapp.com\/schema-markup\/how-to-manage-your-schema-markup\/#BlogPosting_image_ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.schemaapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/How-to-Manage-Your-Schema-Markup.png"}],"mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/www.schemaapp.com\/schema-markup\/how-to-manage-your-schema-markup\/","name":"How to Manage Your Schema Markup","articleBody":"So you\u2019ve authored and added Schema Markup to your webpage. Congratulations! If you thought that\u2019s all there is to it, though, you thought wrong.\nSchema Markup, also known as structured data, is a code you can add to your site to help search engines better understand the content and entities on your website.\nHowever, Schema Markup is not a one-and-done strategy. As with any SEO initiative, the circumstances around what makes good Schema Markup are constantly changing. Therefore, it is necessary to manage the markup on your site on an ongoing basis to ensure it remains accurate and healthy.\nWhether it\u2019s content changes on your page, Google modifying properties for rich result eligibility, or even the evolution of the Schema.org vocabulary, it is critical that your Schema Markup best supports your search objectives, which often requires revisiting the markup across your site.\nLet\u2019s dig into some of the strategies our Schema App team uses to manage our customers\u2019 Schema Markup for long-term success.\nVerify That Your Markup is Deploying Properly \nAuthoring your markup is just the beginning. You need to add it properly to your page and make sure search engines can crawl it for it to take effect.\nThe good news is that Google provides feedback through triggered emails from Search Console. These emails identify errors or warnings with your structured data that impact rich result eligibility. But why wait for Google to notify you?\nIf you want to be eligible for a rich result as soon as possible, the best approach would be to test your Schema Markup during the implementation stage \u2013 before Google picks up on your new enhancements.\nTest your markup using the Rich Results Testing tool and Schema.org Validator\nAfter authoring your markup and gaining access to the JSON-LD, you can paste that code into Google\u2019s Rich Result Test and the Schema.org Validator to ensure your markup is accurate when you deploy it. This proactive approach ensures you don\u2019t miss any opportunities to stand out in search.\nOnce you\u2019ve added the markup to your page, run your page through those same resources again to identify any initial speed issues or crawlability issues that might impact the benefits offered by Schema Markup.\nRequest indexing on your priority pages\nAssuming everything looks good with deployment and you want to get the benefit as quickly as possible, request indexing on your priority pages so that Google can pick up on any new enhancements.\nEnsure Your Schema Markup Aligns With Your Content\nYour Schema Markup must be reflective of the content on your page to be effective.\nTo ensure that it provides the appropriate semantic value, you should author your Schema Markup to support the intent of the page. This will require choosing the most appropriate schema Type and utilizing the associated properties within that schema Type.\nFor example, are you detailing a service your organization offers? If so, you can utilize Service markup to identify where and when this service is available through the areaServed and hoursAvailable properties.\nIt\u2019s likely that you will eventually edit or modify the content on these pages in some way. This introduces the risk of Schema Drift, where the content on a page may become misaligned with the values stated in your schema properties.\nWith the Service markup in the example above, if you change the areaServed or hoursAvailable properties, you will need to revisit the markup to ensure it aligns with the actual content on your page.\nBy neglecting your markup and not aligning it with your content, you\u2019re likely to miss opportunities to provide more context to Google to better align with user intent. What\u2019s worse, is that you could also be sending mixed signals to Google which may impact performance.\nAt Schema App, we overcome the issue of content not aligning with markup through our Schema App Highlighter tool. With our Highlighter, users can create a Schema Markup template for similar pages. The markup will then map dynamically to certain elements on the page. Therefore, any changes you make to your content will automatically be reflected in the markup.\nLearn how the Schema App Highlighter has made it easy for the CAPREIT team to maintain their markup while dealing with fluctuating prices on their listings.\nOptimize Content to Improve Rich Result Eligibility \nThe semantic value of Schema Markup cannot be overstated, but it is undeniable that rich results provide a visual element in the SERP that draws user attention and potentially improves CTR.\nAs defined in our What is a Rich Result article, \u201ca rich result (formerly known as a rich snippet) is an enhanced search result displayed on Google search engine results pages (SERPs) that can be achieved by implementing the appropriate structured data (aka Schema Markup) on your site.\u201d\nThe key element in that definition above is to implement the appropriate structured data, as each rich result has different requirements. Google\u2019s documentation on Recipe rich results, for example, is essentially a cheat sheet for content ideas and it is worthwhile to review these types of resources to identify missed content opportunities.\nThough Google has also changed where and when FAQ rich results will be awarded, FAQ demonstrated another common opportunity where including a single question and answer would show as a valid enhancement. However, Google would only award this rich result to pages where a minimum of two questions and answers were included.\nParticularly in blog posts or articles, we would commonly see only a single question and answer included in the content. This presents an opportunity for content teams to optimize the content by introducing an additional question and answer to pursue rich result eligibility. Read Baptist Health\u2019s case study to find out how they were able to improve their rich results eligibility by optimizing their physician page content.\nEven though you might have started off your Schema Markup journey authoring markup based on the content on your page, you can also use it as a content opportunity to identify missing content on your page that would make you eligible for a rich result.\nKeep Up With Google and Schema.org Documentation Changes\nBoth Google and Schema.org are constantly changing. An ever-evolving landscape is familiar territory for most SEOs, but making changes to existing Schema Markup can be a challenging task requiring the efforts of additional resources like Development or IT teams.\nNonetheless, when Google makes changes to rich results, it provides an opportunity for you to improve your content for a more enhanced experience in search.\nFor example, when the Pros and Cons feature was introduced, it was a change that enabled highlighting specific pros and cons of a product directly in the SERP. This provided the opportunity to revisit editorial Product reviews and related markup to ensure there aren\u2019t any missed opportunities for a more enhanced product rich result.\nSimilar to Google\u2019s constant updates, the Schema.org vocabulary is frequently changing. These changes might impact the various recommended properties for Google\u2019s rich result eligibility.\nFor example, the version 13.0 Schema.org release introduced additions to e-commerce return policy markup, which was later reflected in Google\u2019s Product markup rich result recommended properties.\nMaintaining an awareness of these changes and utilizing the most current Schema.org properties helps organizations win in search by having a more enhanced appearance and richer markup compared to competitors.\nLook for Opportunities to be More Semantic\nWhen you implement Schema Markup, you are effectively informing search engines about the entities on your site and improving your semantic SEO. However, you can be even more semantic by linking the entities on your site to other entities on your site and other external authoritative knowledge bases. Doing so will help you develop your very own marketing knowledge graph that you can then reuse for any AI initiatives you have.\nBy linking entities on your page to other entities on your site\nYou can link entities on your page to other entities on your site to explain the relationship between both entities.\nFor example, if you have a blog post on your site, you might want to tell search engines that this blog post is published by your organization. You can explain that relationship by nesting your Organization markup under the publisher property of the BlogPost markup.\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14342\" src=\"https:\/\/ezk8caoodod.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/How-to-manage-your-schema-markup-nesting-example.png?strip=all&lossy=1&resize=778%2C644&ssl=1\" alt=\"Example of nesting Organization entity under publisher property on BlogPosting markup\" width=\"778\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ezk8caoodod.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/How-to-manage-your-schema-markup-nesting-example-30x24.png?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1 30w, https:\/\/ezk8caoodod.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/How-to-manage-your-schema-markup-nesting-example-50x40.png?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1 50w, https:\/\/ezk8caoodod.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/How-to-manage-your-schema-markup-nesting-example-38x30.png?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1 38w, https:\/\/ezk8caoodod.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/How-to-manage-your-schema-markup-nesting-example.png?strip=all&lossy=1&zoom=0.2&resize=778%2C644&ssl=1 155w, https:\/\/ezk8caoodod.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/How-to-manage-your-schema-markup-nesting-example.png?strip=all&lossy=1&zoom=0.4&resize=778%2C644&ssl=1 311w, https:\/\/ezk8caoodod.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/How-to-manage-your-schema-markup-nesting-example.png?strip=all&lossy=1&zoom=0.6&resize=778%2C644&ssl=1 466w, https:\/\/ezk8caoodod.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/How-to-manage-your-schema-markup-nesting-example.png?strip=all&lossy=1&zoom=0.8&resize=778%2C644&ssl=1 622w, https:\/\/ezk8caoodod.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/How-to-manage-your-schema-markup-nesting-example.png?strip=all&lossy=1&zoom=1&resize=778%2C644&ssl=1 778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/>\nThis is one of the many ways you can link entities on a page to other entities on your site.\nBy linking entities on your page to other external authoritative knowledge bases\nAs you build expertise working with Schema Markup, you can provide further context to your entities by linking to resources like Wikipedia, Wikidata or Google\u2019s own Knowledge Graph. We often use properties such as areaServed, sameAs and knowsAbout to help increase the search engine\u2019s understanding of all the entities mentioned on our customers\u2019 sites \u2013 including external entities like cities or other well-known brand names.\nTake, for example, Burger King, a global chain of restaurants where, in Australia, it\u2019s known as Hungry Jack\u2019s. Depending on your audience, identifying this relationship through sameAs properties can help search engines clarify the relationship between Burger King and Hungry Jack\u2019s and support performance for a wider range of user queries.\nIdentifying opportunities to enhance your markup by linking to external entities leads to a more thorough knowledge graph. This, in turn, provides a variety of opportunities, such as enabling search engines to provide users with more accurate responses to their queries.\nDownload our Guide to Connected Schema Markup eBook to learn how to connect the entities on your site and develop your knowledge graph. \nSee What Your Competitors Are Doing\nSchema Markup is publicly available information and while comparison can be the thief of joy, it can also be utilized as an opportunity to improve your own Schema Markup strategy. We often perform competitive analysis for our customers to help them understand what their competitors are doing in terms of content and Schema Markup.\nThis includes identifying net new properties or links to external entities that were not previously considered. Additionally, it can help you discover new rich result opportunities by comparing content.\nSometimes, the ultimate insight from comparing your Schema Markup to that of your competitors is that you\u2019re on the right track. This then allows space for other SEO initiatives to potentially bridge that performance gap.\nReview Performance and Make Data-Driven Decisions\nOne of the benefits of implementing Schema Markup is its positive impact on your organic traffic performance. You can easily monitor the performance of rich results using tools such as Google Search Console and Schema Performance Analytics.\nAnalyzing Rich Result Performance\nThough correct Schema Markup will only have a positive impact on your organic performance, certain rich results might show improved performance or, at times, reduced performance.\nThere can be a variety of reasons why you might see an overall decline in CTR with certain rich results. For example, is the price of your product outside of most buyers\u2019 budgets? This will allow a user to self-assess and decide whether to click through to your page or not, suggesting a potentially lower volume of clicks.\nOutside of the myriad of reasons a certain rich result might reduce CTR, it\u2019s important to determine if those rich results are properly serving the intent of your page.\nFor a converting page, generating clicks might be your top priority. This presents the opportunity to pivot your rich result strategy and targeting. If the price of your product is too high, consider focusing solely on product reviews.\nAlternatively, you can get creative with How-to rich results to demonstrate how that product can help users accomplish a particular task.\nUltimately, it is important to ensure your Schema Markup supports your business objectives, which might mean that the most obvious rich result isn\u2019t always the ideal solution. Therefore, you should always experiment to see which rich results work best for your content and business objectives.\nExperiment to See What Works\nImplementing markup at scale is a challenge for most companies. There can be a variety of barriers, including access to internal IT development resources. You may need to make a business case to justify access to those resources for sweeping changes to your markup.\nIn the example above from data-driven decisions, introducing How-to content and markup on a single page, let alone a large volume of pages, could be a daunting task. Starting with a smaller volume of pages might be the best way forward to limit the resources required from Content or Development teams.\nYou can also consider A\/B testing pages where you\u2019ve implemented some of the above recommendations, such as modifying certain rich result targeting or implementing linked entities.\nSometimes an unwelcome change might be introduced by Google, requiring a pivot to maintain consistent performance across certain pagesets. As discussed in our Changes to FAQ & How-to Rich Results from Google article, the good news is that change can spark innovation.\nWhile FAQ may not be as worthwhile for rich result targeting, consider experimenting with linked entities, different rich results, or even just expanded markup. Find a tactic that provides maintained performance on your priority pages.\nManage Your Schema Markup for Success\nThere\u2019s a lot to consider with managing your Schema Markup. The above strategies are just some of the ways our Customer Success team supports our enterprise customers to remove the complexity of managing and maintaining their structured data.\nBy working with Schema App, you have access to a dedicated Customer Success Manager who can provide you with the expertise and help you manage your Schema Markup from strategy to results. That way, you can stay current with all the industry trends and Google changes, and receive timely content recommendations to stand out in search.\nOur Schema App solution also includes access to our tools, like the Schema App Highlighter, which ensures your markup scales dynamically even as your content changes. We also have advanced features like Linked Entity Recognition to ensure that identified entities in your content are reflected in your structured data.\nOn top of achieving rich results, semantic Schema Markup can help you prepare for the advent of Google\u2019s Generative Search Experience, which makes a focus on managing your Schema Markup all the more necessary.\nNeed support strategizing, deploying and managing your Schema Markup? Get in touch with our team today to learn about our solution.","description":"For your Schema Markup strategy to be successful, you must manage it on an ongoing basis. 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