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Google Updates Image Structured Data - Search Engine Journal

Last updated Friday, October 21, 2022 13:05 ET , Source: NewsService

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Google has added three new structured data properties to be used with the ImageObject type in order to add support for credit, copyright and image creator information via structured data.

This is an improvement over the previous method that relied on IPTC photo metadata.

IPTC is an abbreviation for International Press Telecommunications Council, which is the standards body for the news media.

IPTC metadata is a way to add credit and licensing information to photos.

Google is making it easier to tell Google about this kind of information by adding support for it via the image structured data.

Google’s developer support changelog states:

“Added support for image credits to the Image Metadata structured data documentation.

Previously, you could only provide image credit information with IPTC photo metadata.”

The official developer pages for image licence metadata has been updated to reflect the updated support via structured data.

The documentation has been updated to reflect the changes.

It now begins with this brand new opening statement:

“When you specify image metadata, Google Images can show more details about the image, such as who the creator is, how people can use an image, and credit information.”

These are the new structured data properties:

  • creditText
  • ...


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