: Why use "SearchResultsPage"? Are there any rich snippets effect on SERPs? I am curious about why use SearchResultsPage? (See the definition SearchResultsPage - schema.org.) In 2007, Matt Cuts said

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Schema.org is not only for search engines. There can be various consumers and tools making use of the data. For example, a browser add-on that allows users to download search results in a structured format.

Google is not the only search engine that consumes content marked up with Schema.org. Other search engines might have other guidelines about search result pages. And I think there can be good reasons for allowing bots to crawl and to index your search result pages, even for Google Search. As far as I know, Google does not provide a search result feature that makes use of SearchResultsPage.

Crawlers could use the SearchResultsPage type as signal that indexing these pages might not be worthwhile. If a service does not want to index search result pages, but the site doesn’t restrict the crawling (via robots.txt) or the indexing (via meta-robots) of these pages, this service can learn about the nature of the page by checking the structured data and finding the SearchResultsPage type (ah, it’s most likely a page containing search results, let’s ignore it).

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