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Find the error breaking your structured data

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Structured data describes a page in a format machines read. This block is being silently ignored, because one line stops it being valid JSON.

Which line breaks it?

  1. <script type="application/ld+json">
  2. {
  3. }
  4. </script>

Pick a line. Every one of them has an answer.

Show me the answer

"telephone": "+15125550143",

This is the one — not the content, the comma. It is the last property in the object, and JSON does not allow a trailing comma before the closing brace. The whole block fails to parse, so everything in it is thrown away without a word of complaint. JavaScript tolerates this; JSON does not.

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