LocalBusiness
Markup for a business with a service area or premises.
What LocalBusiness does not show
Coordinates and a street address that disagree are a defect a resolver cannot arbitrate.
Where LocalBusiness comes up on this site
- LocalBusiness schema for service-area businesses: exampleGoogle requires only two LocalBusiness properties, and a node can pass its Rich Results Test while carrying a phone no listing uses or coordinates on another continent.
- What is entity SEO? What machines must resolve to cite youFailure 4: declaring places you are not One service business emitted fifteen LocalBusiness nodes, one per city it served.
- NAP consistency: how to check your name, address and phoneStart with the page’s own JSON-LD: the LocalBusiness or Organization node with its name , address , telephone and geo , and compare it with the footer a visitor sees.
- Rich Results Test vs Schema Markup Validator vs CrawlCheckIt is two separate nodes describing the business, added by two different plugins, with nothing tying them together: {"@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "LocalBusiness", "name": "Example Fence Co", "telephone": "+1-303-555-0100"} {"@context":…
- How to get your local business recommended by AIAdd LocalBusiness structured data that matches what the page shows ( Google’s documentation ).
Terms this definition uses
Definitions that name LocalBusiness
Related terms in Entities and schema
Declaring who you are in a form a resolver can use without guessing.
invented value · signed business record · listing audit · listing supplier · fix receipt · structured data · JSON-LD · stable @id · entity collision · reciprocated sameAs · sameAs · knowledge graph · entity resolution · entity disambiguation · Wikidata · NAP · local citation · Organization schema · FAQPage · structured data validation · @context · agentic knowledge graph · microformats (h-card) · RDF · triple · dangling @id · RDFa and Microdata · founder edge · foundingDate · knowsAbout · unreciprocated profile · entity graph · DefinedTerm · Person schema · named entity recognition · NAP consistency · NAP schema · name drift · geocoding · rival roots · speakable · FAQPage schema · OpeningHoursSpecification · service area
Questions about LocalBusiness
What is LocalBusiness?
Markup for a business with a service area or premises.
What does LocalBusiness not show or guarantee?
Coordinates and a street address that disagree are a defect a resolver cannot arbitrate.
Which area of the glossary does LocalBusiness belong to?
Entities and schema: Declaring who you are in a form a resolver can use without guessing.
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