How to Use Google Structured Data Highlighter your site | Webmaster Tools

By Jag - 8:59 AM

How to set up Data Highlighter for your website on webmaster tool,it is used for Google to identify and crawl the layout of the structured data on your website.You can apply the Data Highlighter to mark the data fields on your site with a mouse. Its very simple to tag your page on structured Data Highlighter tool

If you are posting articles on your site you can use the data highlighter to tag this data like (Title,Author,Date Published,Category). I will show how to use data highlighter on webmaster tools.

How to use the Google Structured Data Markup

STEP 1

Login to Google Webmaster tools,Left side main menu select Search Appearance drop down menu Select Data Highlighter,

STEP 2

Click the Start Highlighting

STEP 3

A Screen will Open in the POP-UP window.Enter the URL of a page found on your website and select the Type of information on URL. Like articles or events etc...

STEP 4

Once entered the URL and select the Types of information.Since i have tagged a article page thus i have selected page as articles.

STEP 5

And then choose the Tag if only entered URL or tag just this page and other like it

STEP 6

Ok this is where this tool is very useful and cool. You can add the fields by just highlighting them with the mouse.

Here you can see that i have highlighted the title and on the right you can the see that it automatically appears in the title box given.In the same way do it for all the fields.