: Should Schema.org structured data for products be used on category pages on an e-commerce site? I use schema.org structured data markup on all of my product pages. The products are well indexed

@Si4351233

EDIT: Yes. It used to be "not supported" but Google changed how they feel now: developers.google.com/structured-data/policies

A category page listing several different products (or recipes,
videos, or any other type). Each entity should be marked up using the
relevant schema.org type, such as schema.org/Product for product
category pages. Marking up just one category entity from all listed on
the page is against our guidelines.


It validates as a list of product entities, but the "official" Google doc says:


Product markup on listing or category pages is not supported.


This doesn't mean that it won't work though. As we know what Google says is not what Google does. It doesn't hurt to have the multi-product markup in there regardless. It's not like they will de-rank your site for including support for something like that.

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@Fox8124981

I actually posted that question, and another: Is it okay to have more than one Product (with image, description and SKU) per page?

As Dan has answered my question, it appears to be okay to do so. There's not a lot of documentation about it, but if you run the following code on Google's Structured Data Testing Tool it displays all the data correctly, so apparently there's no issue.

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<span itemprop="name">Test name 1</span>
<img src="test1.jpg" />
<span itemprop="description">Description test 1</span>
<span itemprop="sku">#001</span>
</div>

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<span itemprop="name">Test name 2</span>
<img src="test2.jpg" />
<span itemprop="description">Description test 2</span>
<span itemprop="sku">#002</span>
</div>

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<span itemprop="name">Test name 3</span>
<img src="test3.jpg" />
<span itemprop="description">Description test 3</span>
<span itemprop="sku">#003</span>
</div>

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