Google included special announcements in the Performance report in Search Console. Adding a new Special Announcements Enhancement report for Google Search Console. The Rich Results Test tool now supports SpecialAnnouncement markup when added to the website.
The Special Announcements Enhancement report shows warnings, errors, and valid pages for markup implemented on your site. This includes reporting on for impressions, clicks & CTR results for special announcement pages. Troubleshooting SpecialAnnouncement structured data allows us to evaluate how these pages are performing in Google search. This is important because rich results generated from this structured data could help with public health & safety information. For example, allowing search engines quickly determine announcements for COVID-19.
You can read more about special announcement schema here: Learn More
Special Announcement Schema Code Example:
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "SpecialAnnouncement",
"name": "Shelter-in-place for 3 California counties",
"text": "As of 11:59 pm on March 17, 2020, all individuals in the 3 counties must strictly follow the provisions in this new Order. This new Order will be in effect through March 30, 2020.",
"datePosted": "2020-03-17T08:00",
"expires": "2020-03-24T23:59",
"quarantineGuidelines": "https://example.org/california/shelter-in-place/",
"diseasePreventionInfo": "https://example.org/california/prevention-tips/",
"category": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81068910",
"spatialCoverage": [
{
"type": "AdministrativeArea",
"name": "San Francisco County, CA"
},
{
"type": "AdministrativeArea",
"name": "Marin County, CA"
},
{
"type": "AdministrativeArea",
"name": "Santa Clara County, CA"
}
]
}
</script>