structured-data.site-name-missing

InfoSEO audit

The home page has structured data but no WebSite item, which Google reads first for the site name it shows in search results.

What to change

Add WebSite JSON-LD to the home page with the site's name and its home page URL: {"@type": "WebSite", "name": "Example", "url": "https://www.example.com/"}. Add alternateName for a shorter or longer name.

The documentation on developers.google.com

A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.

When it runs

Runs on every SEO audit: of a page, a crawl, a build directory or HTML. Info is a best practice: worth doing, rarely urgent, and --no-info leaves it out. Each finding takes 1 point off the page's score.

The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.

Run it, or skip it

Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:

npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check audit https://example.com --rule structured-data.site-name-missing

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_audit_page:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "structured-data.site-name-missing"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable structured-data.site-name-missing on the command, or disableRules: ["structured-data.site-name-missing"] to a tool.

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