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Adding JSON-LD structured data to your React blog
Search engines like Google use structured data to understand the contents of our page better. JSON-LD is a format that most use to describe the data.
Structured Data
Below is an example of a piece of structured data.
{
"@context": "https://json-ld.org/contexts/person.jsonld",
"@id": "http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Lennon",
"name": "John Lennon",
"born": "1940-10-09",
"spouse": "http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cynthia_Lennon"
}Source: JSON-LD
Adding Structured Data
- Create the following component
StructuredData.jsx.
export const StructuredData = ({ data }) => {
return <script type="application/ld+json">{JSON.stringify(data)}</script>;
};- Use the
StructuredDatacomponent in your respective component containing the UI for your post.
export const BlogPost = ({ post }) => {
const structuredData = {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
headline: post.title,
description: post.description,
author: [
{
"@type": "Person",
name: post.author,
},
],
image: post.imageUrl,
datePublished: post.publishedAt,
};
};
return (
<>
<Structured data={structuredData} />
{/* ... the rest of your blog post */}
</>
);Validate Structured Data
Before deploying the changes to production, we can inspect the HTML elements on a browser to see if the changes are reflected in the <head> section of the page.
Upon successful deployment, we can use the Schema Markup Validator to validate.