Google Updates Event & Recipe Schema Guidelines

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Google has updated its Event and Recipe structured data documentation and made some important adjustments.

Event Structured Data Updates

Events must now be live or in-person events, at a physical location, and bookable by regular people to qualify for Google’s event experience in search.

There are now many more examples of eligible and ineligible events to better help developers.

The implications are that virtual events will no longer be in special event features in Google.

This section and others were removed:

Google clarified how the images are in recipe structured data –

The image property in recipe structured data has no bearing on what image is shown in regular text search.
It is strictly for the recipe rich results, such as visual cards in search.

You will need to abide by Google’s image SEO best practices to appear with the right image in regular search results, not just schema.

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