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Adding Structured Data Markup

This tutorial covers all questions related to generating and adding structured data markup to the Joomla website…
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How to add structured data markup?
This tutorial covers all questions related to generating and adding structured data markup to the Joomla website builder Gridbox.

In addition to the page title and meta description, the search results can display extra details about your webpage - ratings, reviews, prices and much more. It's called - rich snippets. Search engine crawlers use structured data markup to display rich snippets in search results. Structured data markup is a piece of code with additional information about your page that can be displayed in search results.

Using rich snippets in search results can significantly increase traffic to your site, making your pages more visible and attractive among competing pages.

In this guide, we’ll discover how to generate structured data markup and add it to your Gridbox based site. Improve your Joomla SEO with Gridbox SEO tools.

Tools

SEO

Estimated time

5 min.

Generating structured data markup

Go to Schema Markup Generator ➝ select the type of structured data (e.g. Article) ➝ in the Article Type dropdown field, select type Blog Posting ➝ in field Author Type, select Person ➝ copy generated code.

Adding structured data markup to page

Move to Gridbox dashboard ➝ navigate to Blog ➝ open Item Settings ➝ navigate to the SEO tab ➝ Schema Markup ➝ paste copied code.

Adding data tags to structured data markup

Add values from Gridbox using data tags. Data tags should be added inside quotes.

Testing structured data markup

To test your structured data, open the Schema Markup Testing Tool.

General structured data guidelines

Even though you add structured data markup to your site pages and it passes testing on validation, Google does not guarantee that your structured data will appear in search results. For more details, visit the official page: general structured data guidelines.

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