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Where to put Schema On Page
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What part of my page should I put Schema data? Header? Footer?
Also All pages? or just home page?
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Oliver,
Thank you for pointing out this "exception" to the Schema placement rule. As is the case with any structured markup solution, there will, from time to time, be cases where certain, specific elements go in the "head" section of the code. Anything that applies to an individual page in its entirety, and does not limit itself to an element of content within the page does, in fact, belong in the "head" area of the page code.
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What about situations such as those in this example
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I agree with Alan. The standards are demonstrated on the schema.org website. Here is a link using a recipe as an example of how to mark up a page: http://schema.org/Recipe
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Always place schema markup directly in the position on the page where you want the content to appear if it's content specific - wrapping it around that content. So if your business name and address are in the main content area, that's where you place the schema code. It's literally a wrapper just like a CSS div would be, or an old-school HTML table, but not for display purposes on-site.
EDITED 11/14/2013 based on a question from Oliver (below) regarding situations where markup is located in the "head" area of the page:
Exceptions to "in-body" markup:
As is the case with any structured markup solution, there will, from time to time, be cases where certain, specific elements go in the "head" section of the code. Anything that applies to an individual page in its entirety, and does not limit itself to an element of content within the page does, in fact, belong in the "head" area of the page code.
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I have so far put it in the main content & in the header both seem to work fine
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Local business, Name, Address
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What Schema data are you referring to? Different microtags will apply to different pages. Generally, anywhere you can use a microtag, you should.
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