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  • micromano
    micromano Subscriber last edited by Feb 7, 2016, 4:20 PM

    Greetings All,

    My law office features many pages with what are essentially directory listings (names, addresses, and phone numbers of places, agencies, organizations that clients might find helpful).

    Am I correct in assuming that using schema for each of these listings might cause confusion for search engines? In other words, are search engines looking for schema on pages or sites to tell them only about the company running that page or site, or do search engines appreciate schema markup to tell them about all the pieces of content on the pages or that site?

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    • micromano
      micromano Subscriber @Everett last edited by Feb 8, 2016, 4:08 PM Feb 8, 2016, 4:08 PM

      Everett,

      Thank you. Very much appreciate the detail. Will definitely check out JSON-LD.

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      • Everett
        Everett last edited by Feb 8, 2016, 6:01 PM Feb 8, 2016, 2:50 PM

        Hello Micromano,

        See this thread on Stack Exchange. You can mark up your organization, as well as any organization (or other "entity") that you describe / discuss on your website. Marking up an organization doesn't mean you are necessarily affiliated with them UNLESS you use the "SameAs" tag to connect that data with your own website, wiki page or social profiles...

        Also, you may want to look into using JSON-LD instead. You would still base it on the Schema.org hierarchies, but the code is slightly different. The cool thing about JSON is that you don't have to show all of the data you're marking up. It can just be in the source code and not visible on the page, similar to meta descriptions as far as that aspect goes.

        Here's what I would do.
        1. Put Organization Schema for YOUR business (or your client's) in the HTML header of EVERY page using JSON-LD. Here's a generator I like. Also check out the JSON-LD Playground for testing your code. Don't forget the SameAs tags pointing to other sites/pages that you can verify as "official". This includes Wikipedia pages, Wiki Data pages and social profiles.

        2. Also surround information about YOUR business (logo, NAP...) with traditional Schema.org Organization markup.

        3. Use traditional Schema.org Organization markup for the business listings, and include a SameAs tag around a link to their official websites.

        Here's a good Stack Overflow thread to check out: Mixing Together Schemas.

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        • micromano
          micromano Subscriber last edited by Feb 8, 2016, 1:04 PM Feb 8, 2016, 1:04 PM

          Thanks for all the responses! Much appreciated.

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          • hellemans
            hellemans last edited by Feb 8, 2016, 8:41 AM Feb 8, 2016, 8:41 AM

            In general schema.org markup helps search engines understand the content within the context better. So when you makup data it helps SE's understand you pages better. I would go for the schema.org markup in json-ld to be flexible in how the you show the marked-up data in your content. So to answer your question I would go ahead and mark-it-up (but make sure you do it the right way). Good luck.

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            • rootwaysinc
              rootwaysinc last edited by Feb 8, 2016, 8:01 AM Feb 8, 2016, 7:59 AM

              No, it won't create any confusion for SEs if you are using the schema in proper manner like mentioned here, as per my opinion Structured data is a great idea to display your business in SEs, and it is definitely appreciated by SEs. This is also a good article about Schema https://blog.kissmetrics.com/get-started-using-schema/

              Hope it helps 🙂

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              • Ria_
                Ria_ last edited by Feb 8, 2016, 7:21 AM Feb 8, 2016, 7:21 AM

                I've been wondering about this too. I may be wrong, but I feel as if it's contextual. For example, on many event listing websites they use event schema. Which will mark up the event details as well as the organiser details. This uses schema for the organiser and venue's business addresses, phone numbers and website, etc. This is the correct way of marking up events and the rich snippets display correctly on Google. As long as the NAP is under Organization or whatever (which lists the business' name) and you make it clear that it isn't your organisation, I assume it's fine.

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