How to Optimize your Content for Rich Snippets in Search Results

How Rich Snippets help your SEO: • It’s important to understand that the use of schema markup is not a ranking factor. However, it can affect your SEO results. • The schema isn’t designed to be used for every single part of your content—only the most important. • “Richer results” is an appropriate term to use here because the way Google uses schema is to create “rich snippets.” Show up on Search Results: • Unfortunately, there is still no statement from the big search engines if, how and when Rich Snippets show up on their search results. • Snippets don’t show up after you’ve hit the save button in the plugin. Search engines must crawl your site after you’ve added or changed your snippets on your website. • If you add new posts on a daily basis the crawler will recognize changes faster then on other sites. • Verify that the Google Rich ...