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<font face="Arial">Thanks, Martin. I do agree with you on that point.
Even though Google and the others may not show a rich snippet,
having the markup on the site nevertheless helps them understand
exactly what a business does and what certain elements of a web
page are. So marking up a page is always valuable. There is some
debate as to whether or not structured data on a page helps that
page rank higher (and any thoughts you have on this I'd love to
hear), but it only makes sense that search engines love structured
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/18/2013 12:30 PM, Martin Hepp
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<pre wrap="">In GoodRelations and schema.org, there are, in theory, no mandatory properties, so you can always omit something.
Of course, this may reduce the ability of a client to understand your data.
In the case of rich snippets, Google requires certain properties in order to show a snippet. So if you ommit the price, you will only get reviews and maybe availability information in a snippet, or no snippet at all.
Note that structured data is used in many other ways than just rich snippets by search engines, so it makes sense to add mark-up even if you cannot get a snippet.
Martin
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<pre wrap="">Thank you for response, Martin, and for those suggestions. But what if, because the price would vary so much, that you would prefer not to list a price? Is that even possible, or would the markup not validate and/or would the rich snippet not display in search results? For example, what if the service was web design? Prices for web design services could vary wildly, from $1000 to $25,000. So would I still be obligated to list the price or price range with the service or can I leave it out of the markup?
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<pre wrap="">David:
Quickly told: If you have different prices for different offers (e.g. men's haircut vs. women's haircut), then use TWO gr:Offering / schema:Offer entities with respective prices.
Another solution is to model the generic service ("haircut for men and women") and indicate the price as a range.
An example (yet from pre-schema.org times and not 100% valid according to today's standards) is
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://plushbeautybar.com/services.html">http://plushbeautybar.com/services.html</a>
See also
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelationsService">http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelationsService</a>
Best
Martin
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<pre wrap="">Hi, could anyone please give me an example of how I could mark up a business service with GoodRelations when the price of the service varies for each customer (for example, a haircut or some type of repair) ? Can I leave out the price somehow? And what if the service is performed at the place of business where there is no "delivery"? How could I mark that up so that the rich snippet will actually display? If anyone has an example of how I might be able to do that, I'd appreciate it very much if you could post it. Thanks in advance for your time and help.
David
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