SEO & Metadata
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Recipe Metadata for SEO
Last Updated: December 3, 2024WP Recipe Maker automatically includes all your recipe details in the recipe metadata. We use JSON-LD metadata, which is the format that Google recommends. This allows you to show up as rich snippets & rich cards in Google’s search results. No need to worry about this metadata either. Everything is added automatically behind the scenes when you write...
Metadata for Guided Recipes
Last Updated: December 3, 2024On May 19, 2020 Google introduced metadata for “Guided Recipes” as part of Google Search Console. This metadata is related to allowing Google Assistant to guide people through recipes, step by step. As of WP Recipe Maker 6.0.4 the plugin is compatible and allows you to achieve “Valid” status for your recipes for the “Guided...
Metadata for How-to Instructions
Last Updated: December 3, 2024WP Recipe Maker can not only be used for food recipes. The plugin works for DIY, crafts and other How-to instructions just as well and will automatically include How-to metadata Google wants to see. To add a How-to recipe, choose the correct recipe type when creating/editing a recipe: Instead of ingredients you’ll be adding materials...
Recipe Metadata Checker
Last Updated: December 3, 2024On the WP Recipe Maker > Manage page you get a built-in recipe metadata checker that can warn you about SEO issues if you don’t fill in all the fields that Google wants to see. With just a glance you can check what recipes need attention and hovering over the icon will show you more information. Try to...
ItemList metadata for Recipe Roundup posts
Last Updated: December 3, 2024Use our Recipe Roundup feature for your roundup posts and we’ll automatically output the ItemList metadata that Google needs to display your recipes in a Carousel. Why should I use this? By using our feature we automatically output the metadata this allows you to show up in Google like this: In the above example, one...
ItemList Metadata for Archive Pages
Last Updated: December 3, 2024With the Recipe Roundup feature you can have ItemList metadata on any roundup posts, where you’re manually linking to recipes on your website. This ItemList metadata will then allow Google to display a link to that post as a recipe carousel. It’s possible to automatically output this same metadata on any archive pages by enabling...
Health Check
Last Updated: December 3, 2024The Health Check feature can be found on the WP Recipe Maker > Dashboard page and does a check-up of anything recipe related on your site. It’s an extendable feature that allows us to add more checks to it as needed. If that happens it will show that you have an “outdated” check and will...
Pinterest Rich Pins
Last Updated: December 4, 2024The metadata we provide not only takes care of your Google Rich Snippets but also makes sure you’re eligible for Pinterest Rich Pins. Pinterest should automatically recognize the recipe metadata and have that recipe show up as one: How to disable rich pins Prefer NOT having rich pins? There is a setting to opt out of rich...