Nestlé 82% higher CTR on rich-results pages — Google's own documentation, attributed to one named company; RING-FENCED, never present as typical
Claim (verbatim from Google): "Nestlé has measured pages that show as rich results in search have an 82% higher click through rate than non-rich result pages."
Source: Google Search Central, "Intro to How Structured Data Markup Works," last updated 2025-12-10.
Confidence: Single-source — a single named company's self-measurement quoted by Google. Google does not link a fuller Nestlé case study from this line.
RING-FENCING DIRECTIVE: Use only as "one company reported." Never present as a typical or expected result. Never generalise to "structured data lifts CTR by 82%." See R4 — Do NOT generalise the Nestlé 82% CTR figure; it is one company's self-measurement, never present as typical.
Why this matters for Candid: This is the only "clean" CTR figure available — and it is exactly the figure most likely to get laundered into vendor sales decks as a universal multiplier. Quarantining its scope is editorial discipline. Pair with Google Search Central — structured data produces eligibility, not a guarantee; does not guarantee rich results even with correct markup — Google itself says structured data is not a ranking factor and even correct markup does not guarantee rich results.
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- reference Research brief: the searchable, structured catalogue as a working tool — when records-not-prose pays off (June 2026) relates-to
- reference Caveats for the searchable-catalogue brief: no study isolates catalogues as a variable; vendor-sourced skip thresholds; Baymard age; AI-eligibility under-sourced relates-to
- research-notes QUARANTINE — "Pages with structured data earn 35% higher CTR" / "2.5x higher chance of appearing in AI answers" / "40% more AI Overview appearances" relates-to
- rule R4 — Do NOT generalise the Nestlé 82% CTR figure; it is one company's self-measurement, never present as typical depends-on
- rule R6 — Quarantine vendor CTR / AI-citation multipliers; the only clean primary figure (Nestlé 82%) is single-company and ring-fenced depends-on