Google Rich Snippets ~ GrowTechInfo.com

What is snippets ?

Snippets is the some text line display in search result. Snippets contains Meta tag information like description which is display in search result. Snippets are also useful for search engine optimization.

About Google Rich Snippets:

For more user friendly search result, Google design rich snippets, which helps search engine to collect information from web page and display search result with some rich widgets like ratting, image, videos, etc. Rich snippets gives an idea to user, what type of content is available on that webpage. As in name this search result look like rich as compare to simple snippets.

Type of rich snippets:

Review rich snippet

Review snippet display an information about review taken by author or visitors. In search result snippet display an how much rate is given in review and by how many votes are registered for that review.

In above example 6 votes are counted for review and average ratting is 4.

Product rich snippet

Product snippet includes all type of products like electronic, software, stationary, etc. Product snippet display an price, category of product, also including an review snippet contents.

Here, Cut the Rope is an android application having price $0.99.

People rich snippet

People snippet display address, role of person. Other optional fields are also available for more information like nickname, photo, URL of person's home page, etc.

About example display address and role of person.

Recipes rich snippet

Recipes snippet display an image, total recipes time, calories and review (nested with recipes). Also optional values published date, nutrition, instruction, etc.

Butter Flaky Pie taken an 15 minutes recipes time and have 173 calories.

Event rich snippet

Event rich snippets indicates an event occurs at specific future date. Event snippets display an name, date and event location. Google does not allow to use Event snippet for promoting purpose.