Magento rich snippets: Essential ones for your Magento 2 store you need to focus

Nowadays, many developers and store owners are looking for trustful information about using Magento-rich snippets. That’s why in this article, we want to share essential ones for your Magento 2 store you need to focus on.

What is Rich Snippet?

What is Rich Snippet?

Rich Snippet (also called Magento 2 Structured Data Snippet) is a small piece of code, which allows passing structured information about the page’s content to search engines. According to available studies, carefully implemented Rich Snippets increase CTR (click-through rate) up to 150%. You can find them on almost any website just by looking at the page source code.

Google maintains numerous different Rich Snippets:

  • Product
  • Categories
  • Reviews
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Events
  • Authors
  • Organization
  • Books
  • Recipes
  • FAQ

All these rich snippets help you, as a store owner, make your offer more visible to customers.

Why are Rich Snippets important?

Rich Snippets for Magento are not included in google rankings and can’t directly improve links positions in SERP. However, they can remarkably improve traffic, especially if your store pages are already in the top 10. And combined with other tools increases sales.

Additionally, the importance of Magento 2 Rich Snippets can be described by the following indicators from the different studies:

  • 35% of all online sales start from google search;
  • According to available studies, correctly implemented rich snippets increase CTR (click-through rate) by 150%;
  • Products with Rich Snippets attract 20-40% more traffic than products without them.

And also, Magento 2 Google Rich Snippets not only helps to increase the traffic to your store but also increases the trust level of your store or/and brand awareness.

Which Rich Snippets should you use?

Which Rich Snippets should you use

According to current specifications, there are already more than 100 available Rich snippets (Schemas) in total. But only a dozen of them are useful for e-commerce. Let’s deep into structured data Magento 2 and get to know how to implement rich snippets in Magento.

In general, suitable Magento 2 schema markup for e-commerce can be split into two groups:

  • E-commerce specific Rich Snippets: Product Schema, Rating, Reviews, Pricing Schema, Availability Schema;
  • Common Rich Snippets: Organization, WebPage, Breadcrumbs, Searchbox.

Consider the key Rich Snippets (Schemas) for e-commerce in conjunction with the Magento 2 store.

1. Product Schema Markup for Snippet

The product schema tells a search engine, that information on the current page is related to the product. In other words, this is a product page. It’s an entry point for various product-related snippets. It describes key product’ properties: Name, Brand, Image, and SKU. By default, Magento 2 already contains a very simplified markup for Product Rich Snippet. There are many essential attributes are missed: brand, image, availability, offer, review, etc

2. Schema Markup for reviews and rating

Rating and Reviews Rich snippets tell Google the current number of reviews and average rating (attractive stars in google search results) for the current product. Adding ratings and reviews through rich snippets can significantly increase visitors’ confidence in both the store and the product. Also, having ratings in search results will dramatically highlight your links in search results. It is probably the most attractive rich Snippet in SERP. About 72% of customers make a purchase only after reading at least one review.

Schema Markup for reviews and rating

Magento 2.3.5 partially supports this rich Snippet of aggregated rating. But the review markup is missed (as suggested by google specification). It is also worth noting that Rich Snippets aren’t implemented correctly on some pages, which negatively affects other results in the SERP.

3. Schema Pricing (Offer)

The Offer Schema allows the display of product’ prices in Google search results. Additionally, it allows notifying about a special price (with start/end dates).

Schema Pricing (Offer)

In Magento 2.3.5, this Snippet is implemented partially too. Some essential attributes are missed: item condition, accepted payment methods, availability, special price, etc

4. Availability Schema (Offer)

The Offer Availability Schema checks the current product’s stock status and displays availability in SERP likewise. Magento 2.3.5 does not support and does not implement this schema. But SEO Suite implements a rich Snippet of availability, with a bunch of options for extended configuration.

5. Organization Schema Markup

The Organization Schema allows the search engine to better structure information about your company and, most importantly, display it when searching.

Contact information may include the name, logo, location, opening hours, links to social pages, phones, and other information useful to the client.

In Magento 2.3.5, Organization Rich Snippet is not implemented.

6. Rich Snippet Markup Breadcrumbs

The BreadcrumbList Schema allows the search engine to determine the position of products in the catalog correctly. Most importantly, it makes the conclusion of your products in SERP much clearer.

With this Magento Rich Snippets Breadcrumbs schema, Google will display a readable category path (category names) instead of a direct URL to the product.

Rich Snippet Markup Breadcrumbs

Magento 2.3 does not support Breadcrumbs Rich Snippet.

7. Rich Snippet FAQ

In many cases, the product page already contains answers to general questions regarding payments, shipping, refunds, etc. With FAQ Rich Snippet’s implementation for existing content, you can engage more potential customers. This snippet looks more attractive with related emoji.

Rich Snippet FAQ

How to test, debug and audit Google Rich Snippets

Once you implement Rich Snippets following recommendations on Magento 2 schema.org page, you need to make sure they’re working as expected. It should go without glaring errors and warnings.

For that, use these tools:

  • Google Structured Data Testing Tool
  • Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool (the modern version of the first one)

To permanently audit Rich Snippets on the store – Google Search Console (Search Console > Enhancements > Products).

It displays pages with wrong Rich Snippets (errors or warnings) and also the number of valid Rich Snippets.

How to add Magento rich snippets?

In Magento 2.3.5, a few rich snippets aren’t implemented, other snippets are implemented partially.

Advanced SEO Suite already provides pre-configured all listed snippets and other “SEO must” features.

Rich SnippetImportanceDefault implementation
Product★★★★★★★★☆☆
Rating and Review★★★★★★★☆☆☆
Pricing★★★★☆★★★★☆
Availability★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Organization★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Breadcrumbs★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

Final thoughts

Using Magento-rich snippets for e-commerce allows you to increase the CTR in SERP significantly and, as a result, attract more customers to your store. What about other rich snippets, that you’re using, and what effect do they have? Let us know via CONTACT FORMOur experienced experts of Magesolution are willing to help you with our Magento Website Development service.