Google Structured Data

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Has anyone looked at implementing structured data into any RapidWeaver built websites? If so how did you do it, and did you find it helped with rankings?

https://developers.google.com/structured-data/

Oh and if we added support for this in RapidWeaver, how would you like us to do it in the UI?

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@tav Yeah, thatā€™s groovy!

I think some of the structured data options would be better at a global level and specified somewhere in RW. Probably the site settings area.

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Yes, has Joe got good timing or what :smile:

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Yes I agree. A new item in the global Settings with the standard ones together with a facility to add any of the structured data types one at a time should work nicely.

This would be a great addition to RW.

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I have added structured data to my site at https://colourmanagementpro.com using Elixirā€™s Capsule stack, even though that was never itā€™s intended purpose. It verifies correctly inside Google and Bing but for some reason there is no evidence of rich snippet information in the results after waiting a couple of weeks, so I donā€™t know if they are being slow or just wilfully ignoring it for some reason.

After some extensive research I see structured data as a no brainer because only a tiny percentage of users currently use it and yet they dominate the search rankings. Itā€™s probably the single quickest and most effective SEO change we can make but up to now itā€™s been hard to implement effectively in Rapidweaver because you donā€™t want that text messing up the graphic layout of the page.

I use Foundation so news that Joe has come up with something is welcome but I canā€™t test that at the moment because I am sticking with Stacks 2 while Stacks 3 is in beta. My site is due to launch within a couple of weeks and I canā€™t afford any great risks.

Having this built into Rapidweaver would be very useful. One observation with structured data is that if you add an image itā€™s best not to place the stack at the top of the page otherwise it will flash briefly as the page opens.

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This would be a great feature Dan, thanks :smile:
Site settings area would be great

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Looked into it some more and found out itā€™s super simply to add structured social profiles about you or your company:

This is the code Iā€™m using for the new Realmac Software site (Iā€™m building it in RapidWeaver):

   <script type="application/ld+json">
    {
      "@context" : "http://schema.org",
      "@type" : "Organization",
      "name" : "Realmac Software",
      "url" : "http://www.realmacsoftware.com",
      "sameAs" : [
        "http://www.twitter.com/realmacsoftware",
        "http://www.vimeo.com/realmacsoftware"
      ]
    }
    </script>

I simple pasted it into the ā€œHeadā€ area in the code tabā€¦

Screen Shot 2015-07-28 at 20.56.13.png2404Ɨ1442 1.29 MB

Hope that helps.

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That looks easy. Thanks @dan!

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No worries, that part is easy. Gets a little more complex with products and whatnot but itā€™s still very doable even for novices. @joeworkman is updating his Foundation Stacks to support structured data so that will make it easier for anyone to do :smile:

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Great snippet - will direct people to it :smile:
Canā€™t wait to see the new site!

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http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/discussion/74618/is-there-a-rich-snippets-stack-for-schema-org-data-types/p1

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@Matthias
Thanks for the link!

Gezielte Google Optimierung mƶglich?

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I can see a problem with pasting structured data into the Head section of the site settings. It will automatically be applied to every page regardless of their content.

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In some cases (company information etc) itā€™d be relevant. All depends on the content and context, of course :slight_smile:

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As Dan mentioned above, the Foundation theme now has a structure stack. You will need the Stacks 3 public beta to run this version of Foundation. You can get info on the Structured Stack here
http://foundation.joeworkman.net/stacks/pack2/structure/

To let everyone know, I do support for Joe Workman. Having to add this according to the Forum Rules

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Iā€™m already using Structure and it all validates. It shows up in Google webmaster tools but Iā€™m wondering how long it will take before rich snippet search results appear.

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@Matthias Thanks, awesome link
@baska ja gezielte Google Optimierung ist mƶglich.

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Hello allā€¦ this is my first try at structures data and Joe W has done a fine job at getting Foundation ready. However, I may be having a problem.

-div itemprop=ā€œpriceCurrencyā€> -div id=ā€˜stacks_out_7114_page0ā€™ class=ā€˜stacks_outā€™>-div id=ā€˜stacks_in_7114_page0ā€™ class=ā€˜stacks_in com_joeworkman_stacks_foundation_panel_s3_stackā€™>

Note: I took out < and replaced it with - so the code would show on this page.

Notice the item prop is set to ā€œpriceCurrencyā€? Here is what it is set to in the UI:

To cover all basesā€¦ I am at the correct Partial:

Am I overlooking something?

Thank you,
Dean

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Hi,
Would be nice to have the possibility to ad different kinds of structured data on separate pages. Think it will be a ā€œgame changerā€ for SEO in Rapidweaver:) The code that Rapidweaver generates is already really good when it comes to SEO.
If I put it in the Code - Head I guess the data will be on every page?

/ Henrik