Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool being depreciated

Did you know that Google has depreciated the Structured Data Testing Tool?

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Google announced that the Rich Results Testing Tool now supports all of Google’s rich results features and is out of beta. This also means that they are depreciating the Structured Data Testing Tool.

Here’s what the “now out of beta” tool will let you do:

• It shows the search results features that are available for the structured data markup you’re testing
• It handles JSON-LD loaded markup more effectively
• It will show you the mobile and desktop versions of the result
• It matches up with Google Search Console reports.
• You can also run this tool on a site you don’t own

Unfortunately, the Structured Data Testing Tool validates all schemas and the Rich Results Tool does not. Also, the Structured data testing tool allows users to test the schema code itself, without HTML page code. Let’s hope that Google changes their mind about depreciating the tool. 

In the meantime, you might want to bookmark the other free schema.org validation tools like:

• Classy Schema’s Structured Data Viewer 
• Bing Webmaster Markup Validator
• The Yandex Structured Data Validator

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