Schema.org Organizational markup Issue

Question

I was trying to implement this for my website:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2013/05/using-schemaorg-markup-for-organization.html

I have a quick doubt on this:

Is it compulsory to tag existing visible on page elements on homepage?? say if we don't have a visible logo image on homepage, Can we add a separate logo image in a piece of code in body section as mentioned like :

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="display:none;">
 <a itemprop="url" href="http://myDomain.com/"></a>
<img itemprop="logo" src="http://myDomain.com/logo.png" /> </div>

So, if i add CSS "display:none" to my DIV and place anywhere on body, Will it be considered by google for Organizational markup??

CSS style "display:none" can be added from CSS file, Will this work?

Answer 1

This question is more than one year old, but since I found it via Google, I figured it will keep popping up in the future - so here's my update of the existing answers:

You don't need to worry about visible elements anymore, you can simply use this instead:

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org/",
"@type": "Organization",
"url": "http://www.example.com/",
"logo": "http://www.example.com/logo.png"
}
</script>

As far as my understanding goes, you only need to add this code to the homepage.

(This information was added to the OP's article on 21 October 2014.)

Answer 2

Instead of hiding an element, you could simply use link (for URIs) or meta (for text) elements. They are typically hidden by default. If used for Microdata, link and meta are allowed in body.

Assuming that you want to visually hide the URL as well as the logo:

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
 <link itemprop="url" href="http://example.com/">
 <link itemprop="logo" href="http://example.com/logo.png">
</div>

If this is considered by parsers (like search engines) is up to them. It’s valid HTML + Microdata.