How does Google read multiple Geo Shape Schema Mark Up?
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Hi Guys,
I posted a question recently about "Can I have multiple areaServed mark up on one domain?" and the responses I got was no. My client work predominantly in the South East of England in specific towns, so I wanted to be able to list all the areas they service.
However, after being told no, I went ahead anyway and put in multiple areaServed markup on the page to see if this generates any errors and it isn't when I run it through the Structured Data Testing Tool. I don't get any errors by doing this, so hurray!
But... What I want to understand (which I can't find the answer anywhere), is if this is okay, and how will Google read my markup? Will Google see that we are in multiple areas across the SE of England and push my content up before other sites, or is this just going to confused Google?
By putting in all these areas into the website as multiple locations, will Google identify that person X in area Y fits the areaServed mark up I've added and push my content to them?
Overall... has anyone else used multiple areaServed markup and can validate that this works?
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If there are no errors in the helper tool yer good. I was probably the moron that proposed it not working, but clearly, that's not the case
Some pages I got like 2-3 videos from youtube and the JSON works on that, I guess the confusion I had around your initial inquiry was I was thinking in terms of the organization address or something to that effect.
Not sure if you've played with the article/ blog post schema, but some the similarly categorized objects literally have to have your organization on some approved list of some sort. Otherwise, it fires off a warning in Googles little testing contraption.
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Hi there,
I haven't used the areaServed markup, but here are my thoughts:
- If your business _actually _serves all the different areas you are marking up, the markup is legitimate and therefore should be safe. However, if you are trying to manipulate/be spammy with your markup Google could penalize the site.
- In terms of how Google will read the markup, that's a tough question to answer. If there aren't any errors with it in Google's schema testing tool then it's safe to assume that if Google chooses to read/consider the schema markup it would understand that "x business provides services to the following areas".
- Where your business appears on the local pack is determined by many different inputs (such as reviews, quality/quantity of local listings, schema, etc.) I would imagine if Google chooses to consider this particular markup it could help your business appear in more local mack packs if the competition isn't much stronger when it comes to reviews, an actual brick and mortar location, etc.
Hope that's somewhat helpful—happy for anyone to disagree/jump in with more information.
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