A Cleaner Search Results Page: Dropping Underused Structured Schema Data Formats
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Google Search is taking a significant step to remove supporting for underused structured data types. This is just minor update which is well calculated to refine how search result look and help the users experience to find what they want faster and reliable. This changing will not effect your website but you need to watch your website behaviors and ranking ,So let go find its good for website owner , user like us and for developer. Hope it will good for us
What Exactly Is Structured Data and Why Does It Matter?
All the structure data types are not equally usefull for your business website. structure data is bassically helps Google to understand your content on the page in more clearly and search engines can represent them more effective in the search reasult page and user can understant it better ways. Effectively !
For Example,If you have cooking website. You need to add structured data on the recipe page to display cooking time,ingredients and ratings directly in the search snippet. This is called the rich result page and it will improve the both visibility and click through rates.
Which types of schema data should be included on your business website’s home page?
Implementing sechema data on your business website is help to search engines undesrstand your company and improve the site search visibility but you need to use correct sechema data according to your website page. Breadcrumb schema data is not for home page because it is starting point in the website hierarchy and its show the path to the current page.
What Structured Data Formats Are Being Retired?
According to Google announced in June 2025, The following structured schema data types will no longer to supported in Google Search results and for Retired permanetly
1-Book Actions
2-Course Info
3-Claim Review
4-Estimated Salary
5-Learning Video
6-Special Announcement
7-Vehicle Listing
Why Google retired them?Because very few website owner are using them. If you are using them , Its will not effect your website or ranking but it will not given you any benefits to your business website. The purpose of sechema data is to provide valuable to your website owner to describe their content and improve Search visibility of the web page.
Why Simplifying Search Results Matters?
Google want to provide the clear information to the use queries.It will improves the clarity, speed up the loading and make easier to understand your customer queries on the Google search.
1-It will Improves user experience by reducing visual clutter.
2-Speeds up the page loading, specially on mobile devices and others
3-Highlights relevant information in search results.
4-Makes more meaningful by focusing on high-value structured data.
5-Reduces developer workload by eliminating support for unused schema types.
6-Google’s indexing process will be better accuracy.
7=Enhances accessibility by keeping layouts simple and intuitive.
8-Builds user trust by presenting more consistent and reliable result formats.
9-Supports long-term scalability by focusing on features that truly serve user intent.
What Does This Mean for Website Owners?
If you are owner of website and using the unsupported schema structure data types, Google will not enhance your business website but it will not harm your business website. There are no penalties or manual actions will be taken by Google. Your site will still be indexed in Google and ranked as before.
The main takeaway? Focus your energy on structured data types that still drive rich results, such as:
1-Products (with reviews and ratings)
2-Recipes
3-Events
4-FAQs
5-How-to guides
6-Articles and News
These formats continue to be widely used and offer high visibility in search results.
