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Google updated the structured information documentation for the Structured Data Carousels (beta) that amusement affluent results for qualifying topics. The caller documentation clarifies circumstantial requirements and makes it much explicit that the affluent results features are constricted to a azygous geographic area.
Structured Data Carousels (beta)
Carousels Structured Data (beta) enables web publishers that aggregate accusation related to travel, local, and buying to adhd structured information to their pages that makes them eligible for a caller carousel affluent effect that prominently displays their contented successful the hunt results successful a horizontally scrollable database (the carousel).
This beta affluent effect diagnostic uses the ItemList structured information and is disposable for webpages that show contented related to LocalBusiness, Product, and Event Schema.org structured information properties. Each tile successful the carousel displays applicable accusation specified arsenic price, rating, dates and images successful a affluent and interactive format.
Stronger Emphasis On Summary Page
The updated documentation makes it clearer that the beta carousel structured information is meant to beryllium implemented connected a summary leafage that links retired to pages with much elaborate accusation and that the linked pages that incorporate the details bash not request to person this circumstantial structured information connected them.
The aged documentation contained the pursuing instructions:
“Add markup to a azygous leafage (also known arsenic a single, all-in-one-page list) that contains each database information, including afloat substance of each item. For example, a database of the apical hotels successful a location, each contained connected 1 page.”
The caller documentation present explains it similar this:
“Pick a azygous summary leafage that contains immoderate accusation astir each entity successful the list. For example, a class leafage that lists the “Top hotels successful Paris”, with links retired to circumstantial item pages connected your tract for much accusation astir each hotel.”
There is besides an summation of an illustration for clarification:
“For example, if you person a “Things to bash successful Switzerland” nonfiction that lists some section events and section businesses.
Add the required properties to that summary page. You don’t request to adhd markup to the item pages successful bid to beryllium eligible for this beta feature.”
There is besides an wholly caller paragraph:
“Your tract indispensable person a summary leafage and aggregate item pages. Currently, this diagnostic isn’t designed to enactment different scenarios, specified arsenic an all-in-one leafage wherever the “details” are anchor points wrong the aforesaid page.
The markup indispensable beryllium connected a summary oregon class page, which is simply a list-like leafage that contains accusation astir astatine slightest 3 entities and past links retired to different pages connected your tract for much accusation connected those entities. While you don’t request to adhd markup to the item pages, you indispensable see the item leafage URLs successful your summary page’s markup.”
Lastly, determination is an edit to a abbreviated paragraph that makes it clearer that the structured information is for a standalone summary page.
This is the erstwhile version:
“The canonical URL of the point item leafage (for example, edifice oregon abrogation listing connected that page). All URLs successful the database indispensable beryllium unique, but unrecorded connected the aforesaid domain (the aforesaid domain, oregon sub oregon ace domain arsenic the existent page).”
This is the caller mentation (new wording is italicized):
“The canonical URL of the point item leafage (for example, the standalone leafage for a azygous edifice oregon abrogation listing that was referenced successful the summary page). All URLs successful the database indispensable beryllium unique, but unrecorded connected the aforesaid domain (the aforesaid domain, oregon sub oregon ace domain arsenic the summary page).”
Clarification On Geographic Eligibility
Google’s changelog documentation of the changes notes that the changes are meant to clarify that the structured information is for usage connected summary pages. However it fails to enactment that the caller documentation besides has much accusation astir wherever the caller affluent results features are available.
This is what the changelog says:
“Clarified that the beta carousel diagnostic is for sites that person a summary leafage that links retired to different item pages connected their website. The markup indispensable beryllium connected the summary page, and you don’t request to adhd markup to the item pages successful bid to beryllium eligible for this feature.”
But that changelog is incorrect due to the fact that it omits that determination is an further paragraph that clarifies that this affluent results diagnostic is geographically limited.
The erstwhile mentation said thing astir what countries are eligible for the beta affluent results. That accusation was contained successful the archetypal announcement of the the caller diagnostic but not successful the documentation of the caller feature.
The caller documentation has this further contented which corrects the omission:
“Feature availability
This diagnostic is successful beta and you whitethorn spot changes successful requirements oregon guidelines, arsenic we make this feature. If your concern is based successful EEA, oregon serves users successful EEA, and you would similar to larn much and explicit involvement successful these caller experiences, you tin commencement by filling retired the applicable signifier (for flights queries, usage the involvement signifier for flights queries).
This diagnostic is presently lone disposable successful European Economic Area (EEA) countries, connected some desktop and mobile devices. It’s disposable for travel, local, and buying queries. For buying queries, it’s being tested archetypal successful Germany, France, Czechia, and the UK.”
It is funny that Google would permission retired important accusation astir the diagnostic availability successful the archetypal Carousels (beta) documentation and past omit to notation successful the changelog documentation that it was added backmost in.
That’s important accusation and adding it to the recently updated documentation should person been noted successful the changelog.
Read the recently updated documentation and guidelines:
Structured information carousels (beta)
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