RankGear checks whether a page’s body markup references the legacy Schema.org AudioObject type using its http:// URI. It returns a simple yes/no (1 or 0) — presence only, not proof the schema is valid or that the audio actually exists.
| Factor ID | RG-SCH-005 |
|---|---|
| Family | Schema.org |
| Measurement | Binary presence (0 / 1) |
| Measured zone | Body HTML without scripts |
What it measures
This factor detects the presence of the legacy Schema.org AudioObject type URI in a page’s body HTML. AudioObject is the structured-data type used to describe an audio file — a podcast episode, a music track, a recorded interview — giving search engines an explicit signal that audio media is present and what it represents. RankGear records whether that type URI appears, and nothing more.
How RankGear measures it
RankGear searches the body HTML (with scripts removed) for the string http://schema.org/AudioObject, matched case-insensitively. If that URI is found the factor is 1; if it is absent the factor is 0. The match is on the legacy http:// URI specifically.
What RankGear looks for
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AudioObject">
<meta itemprop="contentUrl" content="/audio/episode-1.mp3">
<meta itemprop="encodingFormat" content="audio/mpeg">
<meta itemprop="duration" content="PT23M11S">
</div>| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 1 | The http://schema.org/AudioObject type URI is present in the body markup. |
| 0 | The legacy AudioObject URI was not found in the body markup. |
How to optimize it
Use AudioObject markup only for real audio media, and describe it accurately — a correct media URL, encoding format, duration, and descriptive properties. Treat this factor as an observation about how a page is marked up, not a target to chase: adding the type URI to a page that has no audio marks nothing meaningful and misrepresents the page.
Important considerations
- Only the legacy
http://URI is recognized. Thehttps://form and bare JSON-LD type declarations ("@type": "AudioObject"without the fullhttp://URI) are not detected by this check. - RankGear does not test media availability — it does not fetch the referenced audio file or confirm it loads.
- Presence is not schema validation. Finding the URI does not mean the markup is complete, well-formed, or valid.
- Do not mark up audio that does not exist on the page.
- This is a correlation signal within a measured result set, not a cause of ranking. Its presence relates to how pages in a set are structured; it does not make a page rank or guarantee a position.
Related factors
Part of the Factors reference · how RankGear measures · glossary.