Data Highlighter: Events

You can use Data Highlighter to tag data about events, such as a concert or an art festival. Then Google can present your data more attractively — and in new ways — in search results and other products.

Open Data Highlighter

For example, Google Search results can display tagged information as an events rich snippet like this:

Usage guidelines

After Google crawls your page set, each Google product applies its own rules when deciding whether and how to display your data. For example, Google search results will display as rich snippets only for events that are in the future and that appear to be valid events. A valid event has a name, date, and location, and follows the content guidelines.

Valid event names:

• East Bay Symphony Concert
• Music Festival Northwest

Invalid event names:

• Trip package: San Diego/LA, 7 nights (Don't use Data Highlighter to promote non-event products or services.)
• Music festival - only $10! (Instead, tag ticket prices using the Ticket property.)
• Sale on dresses! (Non-event information)
• Concert - buy your tickets now! (Promotion)
• Concert - 50% off until Saturday! (Promotion)

Event tags

You can use Data Highlighter to tag any of the properties described in Structured data type definitions. Each event must have a unique URL. You must highlight the following tags:

The data you can tag with Data Highlighter is a subset of the properties in the Schema.org/Event schema.

If your site is missing any of the data described in Structured data type definitions, you can add missing data from Data Highlighter. If Data Highlighter has a low level of confidence in the tagged data, an alert icon () displays while you are creating a page set. Data Highlighter will still make the low-confidence data available to Google Search , but other Google products might not use it.