04 SEO TECHNIQUE · GUGUBRAND PLAYBOOK
Structured data is how you describe your business in the language machines parse natively. It powers rich results today and feeds AI answer engines tomorrow.
TECHNIQUE 01
One authoritative Organization (or LocalBusiness) block — name, legal name, logo, address, phone, sameAs links to your social profiles — anchors your entity across the whole web graph.
Ship Organization JSON-LD on the homepage with sameAs pointing to every official profile. Keep it identical between page loads; entity data should never flap.
TECHNIQUE 02
FAQ markup paired with visible Q&A content gives engines pre-packaged answer units — the exact format AI engines lift into responses. Markup without visible matching content violates guidelines and gets ignored.
Add 2-4 real questions customers actually ask to your service pages, visible on the page, with matching FAQPage JSON-LD. Source them from sales calls, not keyword tools.
TECHNIQUE 03
Service markup (type of service, provider, area served) tells engines precisely what you sell and where — the raw inputs for 'who does X in Y' queries, in both classic and AI search.
One Service block per major offer, each linked to your Organization via the provider property. List areaServed explicitly for every city you target.
TECHNIQUE 04
Breadcrumb markup exposes your hierarchy, improves the sitelinks under your results, and helps engines understand which pages are parents of which.
Add BreadcrumbList to every page deeper than the homepage. The breadcrumb trail should mirror your actual URL structure.
TECHNIQUE 05
Schema silently breaks when templates change — a renamed field or escaped quote invalidates the whole block, and you lose rich results without any visible error.
Add a deploy step (or monthly check) that runs key URLs through the Rich Results Test. Treat schema errors with the same severity as broken links.
TECHNIQUE 06
Every claim in your structured data must be verifiable on the rendered page. Engines cross-check; mismatches (reviews you do not show, services you do not list) erode trust machine-wide.
Audit each schema property and ask: can a human find this exact fact on the page? Remove anything that fails.
Mostly no — it improves eligibility (rich results), click-through, and entity clarity. The traffic lift comes from better-presented results and from AI systems understanding exactly who you are.
JSON-LD, always. It is Google's recommended format, lives in one script block instead of being woven through your HTML, and is far easier to template and validate.
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