Structured Data - AI-readiness signals
All 33 signals in the Structured Data category, with what each tests and why it matters for visibility in AI.
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Does your site describe itself to AI in the format Google recommends?
Confirms your pages carry a clean machine-readable description so AI tools understand what they are reading.
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Do your pages embed semantic markup directly in the HTML as a fallback?
Checks for older but still-valid inline metadata formats that some AI crawlers prefer to read.
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Does your homepage tell AI tools your site name and how to search it?
Confirms your homepage declares the official site name and exposes your internal search to AI agents.
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Do your inner pages show AI tools where they sit in your site's hierarchy?
Confirms each interior page declares its breadcrumb trail so AI knows the topic context.
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Do your articles and blog posts tell AI who wrote them and when?
Confirms each editorial page carries author, publisher, dates, headline, and image as structured data.
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Are your article authors described as real, linkable people rather than text strings?
Checks that author fields point to identifiable people with verifiable profiles AI can follow.
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Are your publish and update dates written in a format AI can actually read?
Confirms every date in your structured data is in the unambiguous ISO format with a timezone.
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Do your author bio pages identify themselves as profile pages to AI?
Confirms each author or contributor page is tagged as a ProfilePage with the person it represents.
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Do your product pages describe each product to AI in a way it can shop with?
Confirms each product detail page emits Product structured data with name, image, description, and price or reviews.
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Are your prices written in a clean number and currency code AI can compare?
Confirms every offer in your structured data uses a plain number and a recognised three-letter currency code.
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Does your stock status use the exact words AI tools recognise as in stock?
Confirms each offer declares availability using a standard Schema.org code rather than free text.
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Do your prices tell AI agents how long they should trust the quoted value?
Confirms each offer states an expiration date so AI shopping tools know how fresh the price is.
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Is your returns policy described in a format AI shopping agents can read?
Confirms your structured data declares how returns work in machine-readable terms.
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Do you tell AI agents what shipping costs and how long delivery takes?
Confirms your structured data declares shipping destinations, rates, and delivery times.
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Does your pricing page describe each plan in machine-readable terms?
Confirms your pricing or plans page exposes structured offers with price, currency, and billing interval per tier.
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Does your physical business tell AI exactly where and when it operates?
Confirms each location page declares full address, coordinates, and opening hours as structured data.
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Do your FAQ pages give AI tools a clean question-and-answer structure?
Confirms your FAQ pages publish structured questions and accepted answers AI can lift directly into responses.
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Do your community Q&A pages identify themselves correctly to AI?
Confirms each single-question community page uses QAPage markup, not FAQPage.
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Do your step-by-step guides describe themselves to AI as procedures?
Confirms instructional pages emit HowTo structured data so AI can present steps cleanly.
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Do your recipes give AI cooking assistants everything they need to read aloud?
Confirms each recipe page emits Recipe structured data with ingredients, steps, and timings.
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Do your event pages give AI tools the date, location, and tickets in one block?
Confirms each event page emits Event structured data with start date, location, and ideally tickets and organiser.
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Do your job listings give AI career tools all the facts they need?
Confirms each job page emits JobPosting structured data with title, employer, location, salary, and dates.
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Does your app or SaaS landing page identify itself as software to AI?
Confirms your app or SaaS pages emit SoftwareApplication markup with price, category, and ratings.
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Are your published datasets discoverable to AI research assistants?
Confirms data publication pages emit Dataset structured data so research tools can find them.
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Are your reviews and star ratings attached to the right items for AI to read?
Confirms reviews and aggregate ratings are correctly attached to products, businesses, books, or movies.
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Do your forum threads identify themselves as community discussions to AI?
Confirms forum thread pages emit DiscussionForumPosting markup with author, date, and replies.
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Do your paywalled articles tell AI which sections are gated?
Confirms paywalled pages explicitly mark gated sections so AI tools know what they can and cannot see.
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Do your pages have the four basic preview tags every AI tool expects?
Confirms every page declares title, type, image, and URL via Open Graph for clean previews.
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Does your og:type match the page and carry the right extra fields?
Confirms each page's og:type matches its actual content and includes the matching namespace properties.
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Are your links shareable on X/Twitter with a proper preview card?
Confirms each page declares a Twitter Card type and either Twitter or Open Graph preview fields.
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Can AI tools and feed readers discover your update feed automatically?
Confirms your site advertises an RSS or Atom feed in the head so machines can subscribe.
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Do you also publish your feed in the modern JSON format AI pipelines prefer?
Confirms your site offers a JSON Feed as a modern alternative to RSS for programmatic consumers.
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Do you publish a news sitemap so Google and AI tools catch fresh stories quickly?
Confirms publishers expose recent news via a sitemap with the news namespace and required fields.