: Technical documentation - Course or Product? Planning structured data for my technical documentation website, I stuck on the decision how described components should be presented. I consider Course

@Mendez628

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Planning structured data for my technical documentation website, I stuck on the decision how described components should be presented.

I consider Course versus Product (from schema.org). Or is there better choice?



Background:

There are two products:


Free package FP
Premium package PP
I do not sell single components, only the PP as a whole


As the PP extends FP, the docs are mixed (it's a sellpoint, people see more advanced components mixed with those which are free).

I am not sure if it disqualifies my (free) components as Product, as I cannot provide the price property; if so, it does disqualify them for listings, as per Google official Carousel guideliness, and I cannot really have it:


All items in the list must be of the same type, for example: Article or Recipe.


On the other hand, I'd like to provide images (for better CTR), and there is no way to do it in Course, and I do not really recognize any other semantically valid content type providing those, except maybe Recipe, which does not seem appropriate.

Question: Should I structure components in my technical docs as Product, Course yet some other Structured Data Content Type?

Note: I don't care about Bing and others, only Google, and I aim for the most appropriate solution for it.

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