This week’s Ask an SEO question comes from Mariya from Irinjalakuda, India, who asks: “How much time does it take for schema to go live on a SERP?” Great question Mariya, and an easy one to answer. Schema “goes live” on a search engine ranking position immediately once the search engine has refreshed its current … Read more
An interesting discussion emerged on Twitter inspired by an article written by Jono Alderson. The article proposes thinking about Schema.org structured data markup as a way for emerging AI technologies to better understand and surface published Internet content. Schema.org Structured Data Markup The content on a website is called unstructured data because there is no … Read more
Schema Markup is a key SEO strategy for brands that want to stay competitive in this new world of search. Implementing robust Schema Markup can enable brands to improve their SEO performance by: Helping search engines understand, contextualize, and disambiguate the content on their site – which allows search engines to show users more accurate … Read more
Google revealed it’s working to bridge the gap between two key product data sources that power its shopping results – website markup using schema.org structured data and product feeds submitted via Google Merchant Center. The initiative, mentioned during a recent “Search Off The Record” podcast episode, aims to achieve one-to-one parity between the product attributes … Read more
Schema.org is a collection of vocabulary (or schemas) used to apply structured data markup to web pages and content. Correctly applying schema can improve SEO outcomes through rich snippets. Structured data markup is translated by platforms such as Google and Microsoft to provide enhanced rich results (or rich snippets) in search engine results pages or … Read more
Schema.org is a collection of vocabulary (or schemas) used to apply structured data markup to web pages and content. Correctly applying schema can improve SEO outcomes through rich snippets. Structured data markup is translated by platforms such as Google and Microsoft to provide enhanced rich results (or rich snippets) in search engine results pages or … Read more
There is no better time for organizations to prioritize Schema Markup. Why is that so, you might ask? First of all, Schema Markup (aka structured data) is not new. Google has been awarding sites that implement structured data with rich results. If you haven’t taken advantage of rich results in search, it’s time to gain … Read more
You probably know Schema Markup for its ability to help pages achieve a rich result. But did you also know that you can use Schema Markup to build a reusable content knowledge graph for your organization’s web content? When SEO professionals do Schema Markup with the sole intention of achieving a rich result, they miss … Read more
Last year was the year of change for search, especially for schema markup. We saw a significant loss in clicks due to changes made to certain rich results, while simultaneously witnessing the most number of new rich results introduced by Google in a year. In August, I even asked myself, are rich results dead? Good … Read more
In a Google SEO Office Hours, Google’s Martin Splitt answered a question about structured data validation and how Google’s validator can show different results than the Schema.org validator. Structured Data Validation Both Google and Schema.org offer tools for validating if structured data is correct. Google’s tool is called the Rich Results Test. Schema.org’s tool is … Read more
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Do you want to get more from your SEO efforts, boost your marketing strategy, and drive more traffic? Then, you want to take a look at schema strategy. Martha van Berkel, CoFounder and CEO of Schema App, joined me on the SEJ Show to share tips on what works great with structured data and what … Read more
Remember the good old days when SEO professionals tried to bamboozle search engines with the “keywords” metatag? It might be happening again through schema stuffing. This time, though, it could do more harm. The other day, a customer was having some problems getting their schema on their web page. I looked at what he had … Read more
