Google Custom Search Engine Schema.org structured data and returned results through API - schema.org

Question

Here is my markup with rich snippets
<div vocab="http://schema.org" typeof="GovernmentOrganization">
<p>
<span property="logo"><img src="http://www.place.com/image.png" class="logo"/></span>
<span class="h2" property="name">Department Of Stuff And Things</span><br />
<span class="h4" property="department">State Agency</span><br />
http://www.place.com
</p>
<strong>Locations:</strong><br /><br />
<div property="location" typeof="GovernmentOffice">
<p property="location" typeof="PostalAddress">
Main Office<br />
<span property="streetAddress">555 Something Street Apt 2</span><br />
<span property="addressLocality">Jacksonville</span>
<span property="addressRegion">FL</span>
<span property="postalCode">11111</span><br />
<span property="addressCountry">US</span>
</p>
</div>
<strong>Services:</strong><br /><br />
<div property="hasOfferCatalog" typeof="OfferCatalog">
<div property="itemListElement" typeof="GovernmentService">
<p>
<strong><span property="name">Service 1</span></strong><br />
<span property="category">Web Based</span><br />
<span property="description">Get Some stuff and things</span><br />
https://www.place.com/Service1<br />
</p>
</div>
<div property="itemListElement" typeof="GovernmentService">
<p>
<strong><span property="name">Apply For Benefits</span></strong><br />
<span property="category">Phone Based</span><br />
<span property="description">This service helps you apply for the benefits you deserve</span><br />
https://www.place.com/Service1<br />
</p>
</div>
</div>
The structured data testing tool seems to organize and validate everything appropriately, Including my small collection of services (OfferCatalog). When doing a request to the Custom Search API and tacking on the :more:pagemap:GovernmentOrganization things seem to be OK and I get results I expect. But the JSON object for pagemap only includes the first level of my organization:
"pagemap": {
"GovernmentOrganization": [
{
"name": "Department Of Stuff And Things",
"department": "State Agency",
"url": "http://www.place.com"
},
Any ideas on why my related objects (GovernmentOffice / locations / OfferCatalog / GovernmentServices) are not being including? Is there a better way to organize and structure this for Google?

Answer 1

Consider this approach. Include the following JSON-LD script in the document. It can go anywhere but consider placing it before the RDFa DIV:
<script type="application/ld+json" id="">
{
"#context":
{
"#vocab": "http://schema.org/",
"#base": "http://www.place.com/"
},
"#graph": [
{
"#id": "_:ub220bL18C41",
"#type": "PostalAddress",
"addressCountry": "US",
"addressLocality": "Jacksonville",
"addressRegion": "FL",
"postalCode": "11111",
"streetAddress": "555 Something Street Apt 2"
},
{
"#id": "_:ub220bL4C1",
"#type": "GovernmentOrganization",
"department": "State Agency",
"hasOfferCatalog": {
"#id": "_:ub220bL6C40"
},
"location": {
"#id": "_:ub220bL17C33"
},
"logo": "",
"name": "Department Of Stuff And Things",
"url": "http://www.place.com"
},
{
"#id": "_:ub220bL17C33",
"#type": "GovernmentOffice",
"location": {
"#id": "_:ub220bL18C41"
}
},
{
"#id": "_:ub220bL6C40",
"#type": "OfferCatalog",
"itemListElement": [
{
"#id": "_:ub220bL12C17"
},
{
"#id": "_:ub220bL7C48"
}
]
},
{
"#id": "_:ub220bL12C17",
"#type": "GovernmentService",
"category": "Web Based",
"description": "Get Some stuff and things",
"name": "Service 1",
"url": "https://www.place.com/Service1"
},
{
"#id": "_:ub220bL7C48",
"#type": "GovernmentService",
"category": "Phone Based",
"description": "This service helps you apply for the benefits you deserve",
"name": "Apply For Benefits",
"url": "https://www.place.com/Service2"
}
]
}
</script>
You'll want to change #base to your site and decide how to organize your directory structure to manage your identifiers. Then change each blank node to the appropriate identifier. Then minimize the JSON-LD.
The JSON-LD is semantically identical to the RDFa. As such, you will be able to analyze the Google pagemap and decide which strategy works better for you. I don't expect Google to penalize the page if the JSON-LD is semantically identical to the HTML/RDFa markup.

Answer 2

As per the Google:
I believe you are seeing only one value of a attribute in JSON API.
I would like to update you that as per the design in JSON API we show only one attribute value, while in XML we show all values.
We already have a feature request #16696973 to display all the attribute values in JSON API. Currently I don't have an ETA when it will be implemented.
As a workaround you have to use XML API.