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Structured data

Machine-readable statements about a page’s content, usually as JSON-LD. Its one hard rule is correspondence: it must assert only what the page visibly shows, because structured data that contradicts the page is the strongest signal available, aimed the wrong way.

Also written Schema markup or JSON-LD. Atlas writes British English; the definition is the same.

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Why it matters

The consequence, not the concept

Volume is not the goal and is often the defect. Markup describing things the page does not show is a deliberate, machine-readable claim that the page is something it is not, and it is read as exactly that.

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Where Atlas works on this

2 routes
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Build visibility

Seven questions

A definition is only worth publishing if it is true of your site too. Atlas reads the site before the first conversation.

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