Google: Three Reasons Your Rich Snippets Aren't Showing In Search

Aug 16, 2017 - 8:29 am 3 by

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An SEO asked Google's John Mueller why his rich cards (rich snippets) aren't showing up in search. John responded with three possible reasons over Twitter.

The question was "How do I debug why my Google Rich cards are not appearing when the webmaster console says everything ok and the help article doesn't apply?"

John responded:

(1) Technically incorrect (use SDTT)
(2) Not compliant with policies (eg, wrong markup type)
(3) Or general quality issue with site

Got it? He fit it all into a tweet:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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