[Magento 2] UB Rich Snippets

2. Category Rich Snippets Settings

Google applied new changes to the Category Rich Snippets, you can learn more about it here.

• Enable:  If set to Yes, category snippets is enabled.
• List all products: Show/Hide the Rich Snippets of all related products.

3. Breadcrumbs Settings

If enabled, it shows structured data for Magento 2 breadcrumbs — a readable category path (category names) instead of a direct URL to the product on the search result page.

A clear rich snippet breadcrumb trail helps both Google and customers better understand the website hierarchy and the page’s position.

• Enable:  If set to Yes, breadcrumb snippet is enabled.
• List all products:
  -- Shortest: show the shortest breadcrumb path. For example, “Home | Subcategory 2 | Product“.
  -- Default (Longest): enable the default Magento 2 breadcrumb path “Home | Category | Subcategory 1 | Subcategory 2 | Product“.

A preview of Breadcrumbs:

4. Organization Settings

This feature is handy when you want to provide the search engine with better structured information about your business (merchant) such as your store name & description, location, opening hours, links to social pages, phones, etc. if they are any available.

• Organization Name: Enter your organization name.
• Logo Image Url: Enter the URL of your logo image.
• Description:  Enter the description your organization.
• Description Max Length: Determine the maximum characters in length displayed in the description.
• Country:  Enter your country organization.
• Region/ State: Enter ZIP/postal code where the organization address is located.
• City:  Select your city organization.
• Postal Code: Enter your postal code organization.
• Phone Number: Enter an internationally-recognized standard phone number. Example: +1 425 5552671.
• Fax: Enter your fax organization.
• Email: Enter your email organization.
• Social Profiles: Enter your Profile URL. UB Rich Snippet extension enables you to display common social channels like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Myspace, Pinterest, SoundCloud, Tumblr.

5. Website Settings

The extension enables to include your Website information (name and description) into search engine rich snippets & social media shares.

• Enable: If set to Yes, website snippets is enabled.
• Website Name: Enter your website name.
• Website Intro:  Enter your website intro.
• Intro Max Length: Determine the maximum characters in length displayed in the Website Introduction.
• Enable Sitelinks Search Box:  Display a Search Box scoped to your site right in Google search result page. Set “No” to disable.
  If enabled, Google determines if your site gets a Sitelinks Searchbox though.

  This search box appears under the main URL for your brand in the search results. It lets your customers look for desired products right from Google’s results page.

A preview of Sitelinks Search Box:

6. Facebook Open Graph Settings

If enabled, with the help of Open Graph tags, this feature helps the Facebook Crawler pick up the right title, description, and the most suitable preview image that gets pulled into Facebook when a URL from your site is shared.

• Enable: If set to Yes, Facebook Open Graph snippets is enabled.
• Description: Select the source of product’s description (None/ Product Short Description/ Product Long Description/ Product Meta Description). Select ‘None’ to disable..
• Price Type: Select the type of price (Including Tax/ Excluding Tax). Default is Including Tax.
• Website Name: Enter your website name.
• App ID: Enter your App ID.
• Retailer’s ID for the product item: Select the retailer’s ID of the product item (Product’s ID/ Product’s SKU). Default is Product’s ID.

A preview of Facebook Open Graph:

7. Manual Uninstallation

If you want to have UB Rich Snippets extension uninstalled, please follow steps below:

• Step 1: Disable UB Rich Snippets module and clean associated database tables

-- Open your terminal, go to your Magento2 folder <your magento installation path> and run the following CLI commands:

php -f bin/magento maintenance:enable
php -f bin/magento module:disable -c Ubertheme_RichSnippet
rm -rf /app/code/Ubertheme/RichSnippet

-- Open your Mysql cpanel (eg. PHPMyAdmin), and run the following SQL syntax:
NOTE: Make sure you replace with your own <table_prefix>:
DELETE FROM `<table_prefix>setup_module` WHERE `module` = 'Ubertheme_RichSnippet';

• Step 2: Once done, run the following commands:

NOTE: You can still keep the developer mode if you continue development process. Otherwise, run the following commands to switch to production mode:
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:di:compile
php bin/magento maintenance:disable