Does Google crawl links found in structured data ?

The goad of this test is to check if Googlebot crawls the URLs found in the structured data.

I’ve to do this test because for technical reason on a website it’s pretty hard to use the canonical URL in the structured data.

So let’s check this with this new test !

I’ll put an event: each time a PHP page is visited, I’ll receive an email, with the IP address and the User agent. That’s the best way to check what I’ve to check.

I’ll actually check 2 things:

• Does Googlebot crawl the URL found in the structured data
• Does Googlebot crawl also the URL of destination after the redirect

To do this I could also use log file, but it’s pretty fun to do it with PHP/Gemini

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "VideoObject",
  "name": "L'avenir du SEO test 2: la video test qui n'est en fait qu'une page qui envoi un email",
  "description": "Ces données structurées contiennent des URLs qui envoient un email quand elles sont visitées",
  "uploadDate": "2025-08-08",
  "duration": "PT8S",
  "contentUrl": "xxx//email-me-if-visited.php?test=videoobject-contentUrl",
"embedUrl": "xxx//email-me-if-visited.php?test=videoobject-embedUrl",
  "thumbnailUrl": [
        "xxx//email-me-if-visited.php?test=videoobject-1x1-photo.jpg",
        "xxx//email-me-if-visited.php?test=videoobject-4x3-photo.jpg",
        "xxx/email-me-if-visited.php?test=videoobject-16x9-photo.jpg"
       ],
  "author": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Quentin Adt"
  }
}
</script>

Quentin Adt

International SEO Consultant (Freelance)
Founder of Kelogs, a SaaS SEO Crawler & Log Analyzer
Over 15 years of SEO experience

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