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Choose the specific types Google documents for its features, and skip generic or irrelevant ones

Level
Should

Recommended: skip it only for a reason you can name.

Documentation

Documented

At least one cited Google document states or supports it.

Area
SDAStructured data
Covered

Automatic

Decided from one URL.

Why it matters

Google uses schema.org but mostly consumes the subsets its documentation declares, and a very generic type says little and is hard to use. Pick the types relevant to the page instead of every type Google is interested in; extra relevant markup is never penalised, and Google also retires little-used features.

How to meet it

Start from Google's Search gallery, map each template to its types and their required and recommended properties, describe each entity with the most specific type, and do not spend effort marking up every semantic detail. Revisit the list when Google adds or retires features.

How to test it

The Rich Results Test lists the intended features per template, and Search Console shows an enhancement report for each type in use.

How Regensbot covers it

AutomaticNeedsOne URL

Decided from one URL.

An audit reads the response, the headers, the HTML, robots.txt, the sitemaps and the structured data, and the finding shows the evidence it saw.

How verdicts workWhat you connect

Sources

Google documents04

  1. 01Structured data markup that Google Search supportsGoogle Search Central (opens in a new tab)
  2. 02Introduction to structured data markup in Google SearchGoogle Search Central (opens in a new tab)
  3. 03General structured data guidelinesGoogle Search Central (opens in a new tab)
  4. 04Simplifying the search results pageSearch Central blog (12 June 2025) (opens in a new tab)

Claims in the knowledge base07

  1. D2-C490ConfirmedWhat is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.Shown on screen
  2. D2-C487ConsistentWhat is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.Said on stage
  3. D2-C486ConsistentWhat is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.Said on stage
  4. D2-C492ConsistentWhat is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.Said on stage
  5. D2-C489ConsistentWhat is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.Said on stage
  6. D2-C488ConsistentWhat is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.Said on stage
  7. D2-C522ConfirmedWhat is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.Said on stage

Claim IDs refer to the Search Central Live 2026 knowledge base. The knowledge base (opens in a new tab)

Confirmed
Google's documentation states the same thing.
Consistent
Google's documentation supports it without stating it.

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