SEO concepts
JSON-LD
Updated 2026-05-17
JSON-LD (JSON for Linking Data) is the machine-readable format used to embed structured data (schema.org markup) in HTML pages. It's the format Google, AI engines, and crawlers all prefer over the older Microdata and RDFa syntaxes.
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