should schema rich snippet use for product listing too?

Question

I'm implementing schema rich snippet to a Magento store for Product page, and would like to know if it's a good idea to also do it for Product listing page.

Did a search and most questions/articles are focus on Product page only, so I am wondering if it maybe counter productive for SEO purpose.

Thanks!

Raynell

Answer 1

As far as Google is concerned, product rich snippets aren't supported in product listings:

Use markup for a specific product, not a category or list of products.

See Google Rich snippets - Products

Search Engine Journal offers some good advice that more specifically answers your question though:

Depending on how the website is set up, you may choose to mark up category pages. If you list product information on the category pages, you will want to omit any microdata markup as it may cause a confliction with the product pages. After all, the goal for conversions usually starts with the product pages, so you will want the product page to be the landing page rather than a category page. For a simple category page that lists category names, place each category name in an h1 tag and add the following microdata markup.

See E-Commerce Microdata Best Practices under the Category Page Markup heading.

Their reccomendation, and it seems a good one, is to add markup to your product list template somewhat like this:

<ul id="category_list">
    <li itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Enumeration">
        <img src="http://url.to.image" itemprop="image" />
        <h1 itemprop="name">Category Name</h1>
    </li>
</ul>

Katydid

Thank you. Does the code above for product listing or the category name & image? It looks to me the latter. Also, if you know in this page, the "Warning: Page contains property "price" which is not part of the schema." provided by Google Structure Data Testing Tool is something I should worry about? bit.ly/RWq3Vc My thought is that it's caused by the clone_price when a product is with Custom Options or Configurable. – Raynell

Yes, the latter. @Raynell The schema URL seems to be case sensitive so you need to use http://schema.org/Product rather than http://schema.org/product. Also http://schema.org/Offer and http://schema.org/AggregateRating – Katydid

Thanks again! In the template files the schema URLs are correct per the spec. y Google Structure Data Testing Tool however is showing lowercase for the test result though. – Raynell

Does anyone know the advantage of using the category list markup? According to this Google tool (google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets), it doesn't seem to change the appearance of the search result. – Jerrome