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Local Business Structured Data

Add LocalBusiness structured data to your Joomla site. Include location, opening hours, contact details, and services to help customers find your business in local search and Google Maps.

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The Local Business snippet is a must-have choice for all business owners. Google Search created a prominent Knowledge Graph card with details about your business which otherwise would be scattered all around your website. To set it up follow the steps below.

How to markup Joomla Pages with the Local Business Schema

Go to Components → Google Structured Data → Items and click New to create a new structured data item.

How to markup Joomla Pages with the Local Business Schema

On the next page, you will need to prepare the Structured Data Item. Enter a Title (it can be anything) and select the Local Business Content Type from the respective dropdown.

The Local Business Structured Data

Then select the Integration for the component you want to mark up, for example Joomla Content. Integration View is filled in automatically. View the Supported Integrations.

The form reloads and a new section called Local Business appears below, where you can map each property with page data. A Publishing Rules section appears under it.

The Local Business Schema JSON-LD Properites

To read more details on how the mapping works, visit the respective section in the How to Add Structured Data to Pages guide.

Local Business Schema Properties

Here's a table of the properties you can define in the Local Business Content Type.

Name Description
Business Type Select a Business Type.
Name The Name of the business.
Image The main image.
Phone A business phone number meant to be the primary contact method for customers. Be sure to include the country code and area code in the phone number.
Price Range The price range of the business, for example $15 - $30.
Opening Hours The available opening hours of the business.
Country The Country of the business.
City The City of the business.
Street Address The Address of the business.
Region The Region of the business.
Postal Code The Postal Code of the business.
Rating Value The rating value for the content.
Reviews Count How many reviews does this item have.

Adding Opening Hours

To add Opening Hours to your Local Business, go to Opening Hours > Fixed Option and then select either "Always Open" or "Open on selected hours".

Selecting "Open on selected hours" will display a new section that allows you to specify the opening hours by day.

The Local Business Schema Opening Hours Section

Picking a Location

To select a location for your Business, go to Coordinates > Custom Value and then select a place from the map that will appear.

The Local Business Schema Coordinates Section

General rule: Always markup content that is displayed on the page to visitors. Doing otherwise you may end up with a Spammy Structured Markup Penalty.

How to use Local Business Schema for my company

To create a Local Business Schema and attach it to your Homepage only, you can use the Menu Manager Integration and assign your structured data item to your home page menu using our documentation which can be found here: How to add Structured Data using the Menu Manager

I can't find the Local Business Listing settings in the configuration page

After the release of Local Business as a Content Type, there was no need to have the Local Business Listing section in the configuration page. This deprecated the section and your previous Local Business Listing will get merged as a new Local Business Structured Data Item.

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Last updated on Oct 15th 2026 17:10
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