is it possible to add additional information in Organization schema?

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cheonmu

(@cheonmu)

3 years, 5 months ago

Hi,

First as all, Thanks for developing great SEO plugin!

I want to add “sameAs website” info like below in Organization schema.

if possible, please let me know how do i that.

Thank you.


<script type="application/ld+json">
{
 "@context": "http://schema.org",
 "@type": "Organization",
 "name": "My Site Name",
 "url": "http://www.mysite.com",
 "sameAs": [
   "https://www.facebook.com/myfacebook",
   "http://blog.naver.com/myblog",
   "http://storefarm.naver.com/mystore"
 ]
}

This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by cheonmu.

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wardencommander
(@wardencommander)

3 years, 5 months ago

also interested for this, i followed this from your support page, but its not working for me, please include “sameAs” option in Local SEO

https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/organisation-schema-additional-details/

wardencommander
(@wardencommander)

3 years, 5 months ago

@cheonmu maybe you can check this if it helps you:

https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/add-sameas-filter-but-dont-work/

james2302smith
(@james2302smith)

3 years, 5 months ago

Till now my topic have no answer, ha ha

vikasbobi
(@vikasbobi)

3 years, 5 months ago

Hi
I got same question. It work if you add code in header.php (better of child theme, otherwise on theme update it’ll be refreshed) before </head> tag. But wants to be sure that it’ll not conflict as duplicate schema mark up in rich snippets.

<script type=”application/ld+json”>
{
“@context”: “http://schema.org”,
“@type”: “Organization”,
“name”: “My Site Name”,
“url”: “http://www.mysite.com”,
“sameAs”: [
“https://www.facebook.com/myfacebook”,
“http://blog.naver.com/myblog”,
“http://storefarm.naver.com/mystore”
]
}
Plugin Author Rank Math
(@rankmath)

3 years, 5 months ago
Hello @cheonmu, @wardencommander, @james2302smith, @vikasbobi

Thank you for contacting the support and sorry for not following up quickly and any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

We removed the Social Meta options for “sameAs” Schema because Google/Yandex doesn’t use it anymore. It is like the keyword meta tags that many webmasters spend extra time on but it is also ignored by Google and there is zero advantage of having the sameAs code just like there is zero advantage if you have the meta keywords on your website.

Google has changed a lot and they get more intelligent every passing minute with AI and countless algorithm they have in place. They pick the Social profiles from across the web and they do not need you to have the “sameAs” tag to show the social profiles in your Knowledge Panel.

Here is an example you can confirm from your end as well.

If you search for “Walmart”, these are all the social profiles you see:
https://i.rankmath.com/ij1CeL

Go to their website and you will notice that they don’t have a single “sameAs” tag:
https://i.rankmath.com/MpmFjU

You can run it through Google Rich Results test as well and notice they don’t have any Schema for those social profiles:
https://i.rankmath.com/JNrFJk

As you can see, the social profiles are shown in the knowledge panel not because you have the “sameAs” code, but rather because you are an established brand with a strong social media presence.

This is why we removed the “sameAs” tags in Rank Math and here are links from Google and Bing that essentially tell you that having sameAs tags doesn’t affect the addition or removal of social profiles from your knowledge panel:
https://support.google.com/knowledgepanel/answer/7534842
(screenshot for reference: https://i.rankmath.com/Ut3CGr )
&
https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/markup-businesses-and-organizations-cc507c09

If you still want to add it, then you can use the following filter:
```
add_filter( 'rank_math/json_ld', function( $data, $jsonld ) {
    if ( isset( $data['publisher'] ) ) {
        $data['publisher']['sameAs'] = ['https://twitter.com/RankMath', 'https://facebook.com/....'];
    }
    return $data;
}, 99, 2 );
```
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

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