Question about establishing business details with Google.

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Question about establishing business details with Google.

born2run

3:00 am on Apr 16, 2021 (gmt 0)

Hi so I have a website and now it seems that if I search for my website, example.com my social media accounts for this website (twitter, facebook, instagram) and many pages are missing.

Now Google has this page to register your business account/presence. My question is that I want to keep my address private. So how to establish presence and keep address/phone private?

Secondly, I read that Google also provides embedded markup code that can specify your social media accounts for Google SEO? How do I find this code? Is this info outdated?

Please advise. Thanks!

lammert

11:19 am on Apr 16, 2021 (gmt 0)

If you are talking about Google My Business, it is possible to register a service area rather than a physical address. I am not sure it will work in your situation though. It depends on the off-line services you are offering. If you only have a website, it doesn't make much sense.

You can link social media accounts with a website using schema.org JSON data on the site. The sameAs property tells which social media accounts are officially connected with the site. For example you could add the following piece of code:

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
 "@context" : "http://schema.org",
 "@type" : "Organization",
 "name" : "Your Company Name",
 "url" : "Your Website URL",
 "sameAs" : [
 "https://www.facebook.com/yourprofile",
 "https://twitter.com/yourprofile",
 "https://www.linkedin.com/yourprofile"
 ]
}
</script>

The sameAs property works for both type Organization and Person. So you can link business social media accounts to a business website like in the example above, but also link personal social media accounts to a personal site or page.

born2run

12:36 pm on Apr 16, 2021 (gmt 0)

Thanks much for the code. Incidentally the code doesn�t validate in the �Rich Results Test� page provided by Google. Also I�ve placed the code right before /head

Is this correct? Thanks!

not2easy

1:16 pm on Apr 16, 2021 (gmt 0)

Does your site use schema.org JSON data?

born2run

1:52 pm on Apr 16, 2021 (gmt 0)

No it doesn't as far as I can tell. Do I need to add additional code besides the code above? It's only for the main/home page, for the Googlebot to know my site's social media accounts.

not2easy

1:59 pm on Apr 16, 2021 (gmt 0)

The suggestion Iammert offered above says

You can link social media accounts with a website using schema.org JSON data on the site.

so you might want to add that first.

born2run

2:28 pm on Apr 16, 2021 (gmt 0)

Yes I've added the code already between <head> ....</head> on the home page.

Also, I have other sections of news of a different kind too like example.com/newscategory1 , example.com/newscategory2 Do you think I should add appropriate schema.org json data on these pages too?

jediviper

10:56 am on Apr 19, 2021 (gmt 0)

This is schema code and there is no reason to be added in the Head section of your page.
You can throw it anywhere in the Body.

On the other hand, your website will luck for sure any EAT value, without any address found around.
Google is trusting businesses which offer the basics: Name, Address, and Phone number . What does it say about your business if you hide your address?