Schema types for webinars, infographics, datasheets, product videos and eBooks
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Hi,
I’m looking to add Schema markup to my company pages’s webinar page (recording past webinars) and data sheets, infographics, product videos, eBooks/white papers. For eBooks, I am primarily referring to a landing page with a gate to download a PDF document.
I’m trying to determine the best markup type:
For Webinars, I’ve seen suggestions to use “Event” type but that seems appropriate for future events, not something like a recorded webinar, which is not time-sensitive, unlike a live event. However, I see a StackOverflow forum to use http://schema.org/recordedIn for recorded webinars.
For eBooks and White Papers, I see a few potential schema types:
https://schema.org/DigitalDocument
https://schema.org/CreativeWork
http://schema.org/EBook (or https://schema.org/Book and then book format type of Ebook)
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I will create the schema for my movies website. I will create the Movie rating schema, Article schema and some more schemas that is need to my website.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Movie",
"actor": [
{
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Johnny Depp"
},
{
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Penelope Cruz"
},
{
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Ian McShane"
}
],
"aggregateRating": {
"@type": "AggregateRating",
"bestRating": "10",
"ratingCount": "200",
"ratingValue": "8",
"reviewCount": "50"
},
"author": [
{
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Ted Elliott"
},
{
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Terry Rossio"
}
],
"description": "Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.",
"director": {
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Rob Marshall"
},
"name": "Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides (2011)"
}
</script>
This schema is help me to index my website fastly. -
@WhiteHat1 Hey there! For a webinar, the most appropriate schema would be a combination of Event and OnDemandEvent due to its online nature. However, as of my last update, OnDemandEvent was more suitable for an event like a movie or TV show that is available for streaming whenever you want to watch it, rather than a live webinar that takes place at a specific time.
For most live webinars, you should use the Event type with an eventAttendanceMode property set to OnlineEventAttendanceMode. The VirtualLocation type would also be used instead of a physical address.
Here's an example of what that schema might look like:
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Event",
"name": "Interactive Webinar on Data Science",
"description": "Join our expert panel as they delve into the latest trends in Data Science. This webinar will cover a range of topics from predictive analytics to deep learning.",
"startDate": "2023-12-01T18:00:00+00:00",
"endDate": "2023-12-01T19:30:00+00:00",
"eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OnlineEventAttendanceMode",
"eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled",
"location": {
"@type": "VirtualLocation",
"url": "https://www.webinarhost.com/event123"
},
"image": "https://www.webinarhost.com/images/event123_banner.jpg",
"organizer": {
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Data Science Community Forum",
"url": "https://www.datascienceforum.org"
},
"performer": {
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Dr. Jane Doe",
"url": "https://www.datascienceforum.org/speakers#JaneDoe"
},
"offers": {
"@type": "Offer",
"url": "https://www.webinarhost.com/register/event123",
"price": "0",
"priceCurrency": "USD",
"availability": "https://schema.org/InStock",
"validFrom": "2023-11-01T09:00:00+00:00"
},
"audience": {
"@type": "EducationalAudience",
"audienceType": "Professional"
},
"recordedIn": {
"@type": "CreativeWork",
"name": "Data Science Webinar Series"
}
}
</script>Some points to consider:
eventAttendanceMode: Specifies that the event is an online event.
location: Uses VirtualLocation with a url property to indicate where the webinar can be accessed.
offers: Contains details about the registration or ticketing, which in this case indicates a free event.
recordedIn: If the webinar is part of a series, you might include this to reference the series.
Make sure to validate your structured data using Google's Rich Results Test or similar tools to check for any errors or warnings that might affect how search engines interpret and display your content.I really hope that this helps!
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