Has JSON-LD Course

Abstract illustration of a course card inside JSON-LD curly braces with a graduation cap, in RankGear indigo and coral.

Has JSON-LD Course reports whether RankGear finds a Course value for @type in a page’s raw HTML source, returning 1 when the string is present and 0 when it is not. It is a text match, not a validation of the underlying JSON-LD graph, so a match confirms the string exists — not that the structured data is valid.

Factor IDRG-SCJ-062
FamilyStructured Data – JSON-LD
MeasurementBinary presence (0 / 1)
Measured zoneRaw rendered HTML

What it measures

This factor reports whether RankGear finds an @type value of Course in the page’s raw source. It is a presence signal about the markup itself: either the page declares a Course type somewhere in its HTML, or it does not.

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How RankGear measures it

RankGear searches the raw HTML for the "@type": "Course" declaration, allowing flexible whitespace around the tokens and optionally permitting a schema: prefix on the value. Matching is case-insensitive, so capitalization differences do not affect the result.

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What RankGear looks for

"@type": "Course"
"@type":"schema:Course"   <!-- schema: prefix allowed -->
ValueMeaning
1A Course @type string was found in the raw HTML.
0No Course @type string was found in the raw HTML.
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How to optimize it

Use Course only for a genuine course. Give it an accurate name, description, and provider, and state its prerequisites and learning outcomes, keeping every property aligned with the content a visitor actually sees on the page. Because this factor confirms presence rather than correctness, treat a 1 as evidence the markup exists, not as proof it is valid or complete — validate the full structured data independently.

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Important considerations

  • The detector pattern-matches source text rather than parsing and validating a JSON-LD graph.
  • A matching string that sits outside valid JSON-LD — in a comment, a code sample, or malformed markup — can still produce a 1.
  • Capitalization differences do not affect detection, since matching is case-insensitive.
  • Validate the complete structured data with an independent tool before relying on it.
  • Presence of Course markup correlates with, and does not cause, a page’s position within a measured result set; RankGear reports it as one prioritization signal among many, never as a ranking guarantee.
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Related factors

Part of the Factors reference · how RankGear measures · glossary.

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