Google has a new featured snippet in beta called carousels. This is one of the most exciting schema libraries to come out in years, and may be a game changer for small businesses, publishers, affiliates, and even big brands in the future. Below you’ll find how I think it will be developed, ways different types of sites can potentially use it from service providers and retailers to bloggers, content creators, and affiliates.
Ideas To Use Google's Carousel Schema Library
But first, please remember that schema and structured data are not meant to boost your SEO, they are meant to help you get rich results and more space in a search result. Your content and page still have to be worth showing and high quality. With that said, anything you can do to help Google and users understand your page better should in theory help with SEO and rankings.
Ideas To Use Google's Carousel Schema Library
Here’s where you can learn about the carousel structured data in Google’s developer section, and they demonstrate how to implement. Don’t get scared about the tech talk, it is super easy. If you’re active in any of the affiliate programs we manage, we’ll likely be able to walk you through how to implement it on your site.
Ideas To Use Google's Carousel Schema Library
There’s two sections in this post, the first is an explanation of this schema type and the predictions I have for it if it leaves beta and they expand it, then five examples by niche or business type of how you may be able to implement this.
Ideas To Use Google's Carousel Schema Library
What Carousel Schema Type Is
Just like a carousel at an amusement park, by using the elements from the guide in developer you can potentially create a search engine listing for SEO that lets people scroll horizontally through your offerings (services, events, listings), the items you feature in listcicles on your site, or the products you sell.
Ideas To Use Google's Carousel Schema Library
Unlike other schema types, this is listed under “local business”. So if you’re a national or…
Ideas To Use Google's Carousel Schema Library
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