Benoit, a developer and very welcoming customer of mine, asked how he can integrate comments into this schemas. Here is an example field type that I’ve coded for him. Feel free to customize it the way you like it.

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With the beginning of mobile-first-indexing, site-owners can now select “Googlebot Smartphone” as the user-agent on the rich results testing tool to see if their sites are prepared for mobile-first indexing.

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Our webhosting provider notified me about a scheduled maintenance of the server rich-snippets.io is running on. Therefore it might be that our website is not reachable for 60 minutes between Monday May 6, 2019 11pm and Tuesday May 7, 2019 5am (CEST timezone).

It can be that SNIP will not be able to retrieve any data from the API that is on this server. Please wait for 60 minutes in order to continue your work with Structured Data.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused by this.

SearchEngineRoundtable reported a while ago that Google is currently testing Rich Snippets on Desktops for Events.

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SearchEngineRoundtable reported that Google has updated its Content Guidelines for Q&A Pages last week.

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SEORoundTable noticed today that the Q&A Rich Snippet now shows a time frame on asked question. More specifically an search result may show something like this:

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Today I released version 2.7. In this version I mainly wanted to make the experience of using SNIP as smooth as possible. So I focused on the onboarding process a lot. But the update fixed some issues as well. Read more in this post.

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A few days ago some customers reported that Google now wants to see the url as well as the priceValidUntil properties for all Offers. Here is how you can deal with this.

Here are the exact warnings that Googles Structured Data Test Tools shows:

• The priceValidUntil field is recommended. Please provide a value if available.
• The url field is recommended. Please provide a value if available.

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Search Engine Land reported yesterday that Google now officially supports question and answer structured data for Q&A pages.

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Another month went by and I’ve worked very hard to ship the next version. This was particular difficult for me because I haven’t got a lot of time to work on the code itself.

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Search Engine Land reported last month that it’s okay to post reviews from other sites (like Yelp, Google Maps, etc.) on your website. However you should not mark them up with schema.org structured data as this is against Googles guidelines. The reason is that the markup is reserved for reviews “directly produced by your site” and not copied from other sites.

So please keep that in mind when adding structured data to your reviews.

Version 2.5 is another great update to the SNIP – Rich Snippets WordPress plugin. Here is what I’ve added in the latest version:

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Google updated its Search Documentation. Now they recommend to add the datePublished and dateModified properties to the Article snippet. Good that my plugin already covers that!

Last month, Bing has announced, that their Webmaster Tools now has a JSON+LD tool that allows everyone to check if the structured data, that has been included on a site, has a valid syntax. Awesome!

Hey there. Finally, version 2.4.0 has arrived! Yey!

New filters for developers

The most important change is that developers now have the option to use the following filters to add custom JSON+LD data to each snippet:

• wpbuddy/rich_snippets/rich_snippet/json+ld
• wpbuddy/rich_snippets/rich_snippet/json+ld/value
• wpbuddy/rich_snippets/rich_snippet/json+ld/value/{key}

With this, Global Snippets now have a new field that allows you to add value to the @id-value of the snippet.

Gutenberg

Another important milestone is that the plugin is officially compatible with Gutenberg (the new block editor that is coming with WordPress 5.0).

Other bugfixes

Several bugs have been fixed. For example it was not possible to properly select a single post or page from within the position metabox. This now works as it should be.

It was also not possible to rate feature requests. I’ve fixed this now as well.

Hey customers! Today our web hosting provider told us that there will be a planned maintenance between July, 09 and July, 10 around 11 pm and 5 am CEST. So it might be that our server will not be available for up to 60 minutes during that time. That means that the Rich Snippets WordPress plugin will maybe not work as expected as it needs to load some data for your snippets from our servers.

Sorry for that inconvenience.

Hey customers! Today our web hosting provider told us that there will be a planned maintenance between May, 22 and May, 24 around 11 pm and 5 am CEST. So it might be that our server will not be available for about 30 minutes during that time. That means that the Rich Snippets WordPress plugin will maybe not work as expected as it needs to load some data for your snippets from our servers. Sorry for that inconvenience.

Last month SearchEngineJournal wrote about the fact that structured data can improve targeting. And the coolest thing is that Google confirmed it. Continue reading →

Hey folks! Version 2.3.1 is primarily a maintenance release:

• I’ve fixed some issues regarding the 5-star and 100-points rating. It didn’t really work when a rating-property has initially been added.
• I also did a rollback on the design as the non-table-layout confused people (not only you or your neighbor but also myself).
• Last but not least I’ve added two new examples that get installed automatically on plugin-activation. These are:
  • an example for a Product snippet when using WooCommerce
  • an example for a Review snippet for a product.

Have fun with it!

Yey. I’m so happy to announce that version 2.3. of the Rich Snippets WordPress Plugin has been released yesterday. And: it has already been checked by CodeCanyon so that everyone can grab it now. Continue reading →

Some of our users currently get the message that they cannot update the plugin because of the error that says they purchase code is tied to another host. This may occur because we’ve updated our servers just this night so that it can also recognize subdomains.

As you may know: CodeCanyon only sells licenses that are bound for one domain. However subdomains are allowed.

If you still get the error, please follow the steps found here: I get an error that the domain is tied to another host.

On Monday the new version 2.2.0 will arrive in your WordPress dashboard. To be prepared for this I’ll switch rich-snippets.io to a new server that allows to receive more requests made from the plugin. Continue reading →

Some days ago I’ve read an interesting article about semantic data and how it affects a sites SEO. “Semantic data” in this case is the data you provide to search engines and that has been processed specially for them. In short: we’re talking about schema.org syntax and Rich Snippets.

If you don’t know what Rich Snippets are, go to the home page of this site to learn more.

The research paper I’m talking about were put together by a team at WordLift. Data results were presented at SEMANTiCS 2017 and posted on TorqueMag. I won’t go into every detail as you can read through the whole story yourself. However what blow my mind was the fact that a website was able

• to get +12.13% new users,
• saw a +18.47% increase in organic traffic,
• increased page views +2.4 times,
• and expanded session duration by +13.75%

Just by adding schema.org data! Sounds to good to be true? I’m telling you: it’s not. Why? Because schema.org and Rich Snippets are around for a while. It’s not something new. It’s not something special. Search engines force you to add semantic data to your website, too. Why not, using the Rich Snippet WordPress Plugin?

[video_1 title=”The Donut” date=”30.11.2015″ thumbnail=”https://rich-snippets.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/donuts.jpg”]Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. Vestibulum id ligula porta felis euismod semper. Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Integer posuere erat a ante venenatis dapibus posuere velit aliquet.[/video_1]

Test this shortcode with Googles Structured Test Tool.

[event2 name=”Fotokurz – za?áte?níci” street=”Masarykovo náb?eží 22″ zip=”110 00″ locality=”Praha 1″ country=”Czech Republic” url=”https://rich-snippets.io/event-2/” start_date=”01.10.2018″ end_date=”02.10.2018″ organization=”Klub cestovatel?” image=”https://rich-snippets.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/donuts.jpg” price=200 availabilitystarts=”01.12.2017″]Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Integer posuere erat a ante venenatis dapibus posuere velit aliquet. Maecenas sed diam eget risus varius blandit sit amet non magna. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et.[/event2]

Test this Site using the Structured Test Tool

[minproduct name=”Rich Snippet Plugin” price=”11″ rating=”5″][/minproduct]

On this page is a hidden minimal product. You can see it using the Structured Data Tool on Google.

[organizationnopublic url=”http://www.hofbraeuhaus.de/” telephone=”+49 (0) 89 / 29 01 36-1 00″ streetaddress=”Platzl 9″ locality=”München” region=”Bayern” postalcode=”80331″ countryname=”Germany” name=”Hofbräuhaus München”][/organizationnopublic]

On this page an organization shortcode has been included. It’s not visible to the public but can be found by search engines. Click here to check this with Googles Rich Snippet Testing Tool.

 

This page has a rating which is not displayed to the public. But please note that Google don’t like hidden things. In fact this rating will maybe never show up on search results (because it’s hidden to the public). Click here to find out how this works (FAQ Question 8).

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[rating_no_public itemreviewed=”WP-Buddy Rating Plugin” rating=”10″ reviewer=”WP-Buddy” dtreviewed=”22.04.2013″ best=”10″ worst=”1″][/rating_no_public]

[restaurant name=”Hofbräuhaus München” ratingvalue=”8″ streetaddress=”Platzl 9″ addresslocality=”Muenchen” addressregion=”BY” postalcode=”80331″ telephone=”+49 (0) 89 / 29 01 36-1 00″ url=”http://www.hofbraeuhaus.de” openinghours1=”Mo-Su 09:00-23:30″ openinghours2=”” categories=”Bavarian,German” pricerange=”$$” image=”https://rich-snippets.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/donuts.jpg”][/restaurant]

Test with Google Rich Snippet Testing Tool

This shortcode is not part of the examples. But you can install it on your own by copy&pasting the sourcecode from this page: Rich Snippets Code Examples