description
A description of the item.
Definition from the Schema.org vocabulary (English).
Estimated domains
10M+ stable
Trend over time
Domain tier in each available month.
Usage in Google Search
Documented Google contexts where this property is required or recommended for rich results.
- Requiredcourse
Text A description of the course. Display limit of 60 characters.
- Requireddataset
Text A short summary describing a dataset. Guidelines The summary must be between 50 and 5000 characters long. The summary may include Markdown syntax. Embedded images need to use absolute path URLs (instead of relative paths). When using the JSON-LD format, denote new lines with \n (two characters: backslash and lower case letter "n").
- Requiredjob-posting
Text The full description of the job in HTML format. The description must be a complete representation of the job, including job responsibilities, qualifications, skills, working hours, education requirements, and experience requirements. The description can't be the same as the title. Additional guidelines: You must format the description in HTML. At minimum, add paragraph breaks using <br>, <p>, or \n. The feature recognizes the following HTML tags: <p>, <ul>, and <li>. The feature doesn't rec
- Requiredloyalty-program
Text The description of the loyalty program, describing the primary benefits for members.
- Recommendedevent
Text Description of the event. Describe all details of the event to make it easier for users to understand and attend the event. Best practices: Add a clear and concise description of the specific event. Focus on the event details and not your site's features. Don't repeat other facts like date and location; instead, add that information to the respective properties. "description": "The Adventures of Kira and Morrison is coming to Snickertown in a can't miss performance." Google only shows a sni
- Recommendedorganization
Text A detailed description of your organization, if applicable.
- Recommendedprofile-page
Text The user's byline or applicable credential, if applicable.
- Recommendedmerchant-listing
Text The product description. While the product description is not mandatory, it is strongly recommended to provide a description of the product in this property.
- Recommendedproduct-variants
Text or TextObject The description of the ProductGroup. For example, "Wool winter coat for cold weather climates". Make sure that the variant description is more specific and ideally uses words that identify the variant (such as color, size, material). In addition to the description of the ProductGroup, we recommend also adding a description of each variant at the Product level. See the Product documentation for details.
- Recommendedshipping-policy
Text A description of your shipping service, if applicable. This is typically more comprehensive than the name.
- Recommendedvideo
Text The description of the video. Make sure to use unique text in the description property for each video on your site. HTML tags are ignored.
Used on types
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