{"id":20175,"date":"2024-01-10T00:47:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T00:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=20175"},"modified":"2024-01-10T00:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T00:47:06","slug":"google-product-structured-data-now-supports-the-suggested-age-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=20175","title":{"rendered":"Google Product Structured Data now supports the suggested Age property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Google officially supports the suggestedAge property as an alternative to suggestedMaxAge and suggestedMinAge within its structured product data.  Google says it added this support to make it more flexible for people to specify age ranges for a product.<\/p>\n<p>Google noticed this change <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/updates#adding-support-for-suggestedage-to-product\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this way<\/a> saying: &#8220;Added support for the suggestedAge property as an alternative to suggestedMaxAge and suggestedMinAge.&#8221;  Google also noted that it has \u201cclarified the list of possible values \u200b\u200bfor age ranges in our <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/docs\/appearance\/structured-data\/product\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Structured product data documentation<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Truthfully, I still don&#8217;t see these changes noted and when I wrote this, the documentation link seems to go to the wrong place, but hopefully when you read this, you&#8217;ll see the update.  (Update &#8211; now fixed&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Google said it made the change to &#8220;make it easier and more flexible for people to specify age ranges for a product.&#8221;  Google also made this change because &#8220;the previous wording was confusing and didn&#8217;t fit well with Merchant Center&#8217;s documentation on product age ranges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I see the max and min age properties mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/merchants\/answer\/6386198?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Merchant Center Structured Data Documents<\/a>says: &#8220;Use the audience property to specify a PeopleAudience object that specifies the age group using its suggestedMinAge and suggestedMaxAge properties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can see this documented in the Google Merchant Center tab:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-product-structured-data-suggestedage-tab-1704816104.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-product-structured-data-suggestedage-tab-1704816104.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Products Structured Data Suggestions Tab\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then you see it here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-product-structured-data-suggestedage-1704816103.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-product-structured-data-suggestedage-1704816103.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Product Structured Data Suggestion\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the age groups documented there, but the new &#8220;suggestedAge&#8221; property is still not mentioned:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-agegroup-products-1704799439.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-agegroup-products-1704799439.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Agegroup products\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discussion in the forum a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustybrick\/status\/1744694256487268725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-product-structured-data-suggestedage-36687.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google officially supports the suggestedAge property as an alternative to suggestedMaxAge and suggestedMinAge within its structured product data. Google says it added this support to make it more flexible for people to specify age ranges for a product. Google noticed this change this way saying: &#8220;Added support for the suggestedAge property as an alternative to suggestedMaxAge and suggestedMinAge.&#8221; Google also noted that it has \u201cclarified the list of possible values \u200b\u200bfor age ranges in our&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20177,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175\/revisions\/20177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}