On January 23, Google announced that it brought Google Dataset Search out of beta and is now completely live. Google has also added new features to the speciality search engine. With Google Dataset Search, searchers can find datasets that are stored across the web through keyword searches. “The tool surfaces information about datasets hosted in thousands [...]
On April 6 of this year, data-vocabulary.org structured data markup will become ineligible for Google rich result features. The announcement was made on Tuesday, January 21. Sit owners have to convert to the schema.org markup if they want their pages to continue being eligible for Google rich results. When April 6 comes around and your [...]
Recently, Google announced that publishers are now able to create Google Actions from web content using schema markup. Google Actions is a great way for brands to get extra mileage out of their SEO strategy, as well as offer another opportunity to reach searchers organically. Optimizing for some of the newest features, such as Google [...]
Google is preparing to change how it presents content in search results pages in France and throughout Europe. This follows the new European Copyright Directive that first rolled out in France. The intention behind the Copyright Directive is to generate fees for media publishers whose content appears in search results and on news aggregation sites. Google however has [...]
“In order to be eligible to be shown as a rich result, you need to make sure that the page uses the right structured data and that it complies with the appropriate policies on our side,” said Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller on the October 9 edition of #AskGoogleWebmasters. The question that was asked - “We [...]
Two new reports for Google Search Console have been announced by Google that help you understand how well your videos are performing in Google search and help you fix issues with your videos displaying in Google Search. For the first report, it is a new option found under the Performance report, within "Search Appearances" that [...]
During the September 11 edition of #AskGoogleWebmasters, Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller sad that JSON structured data can be inserted into both the head and body of your pages. Here was the question - “Is it possible to insert JSON structured data at the bottom of the <body> instead of the <head>? It seems to [...]
Google officially has a new developer documentation for structured data around movie markup, which is available here. The new documentation shows you how to markup your movie lists with structured data so users can explore movies through Google Search. Here is the announcement Google made on Twitter: https://twitter.com/googlewmc/status/1169703489557037056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1169703489557037056&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearchengineland.com%2Fgoogle-adds-new-movie-structured-data-321489 The information in the documentation outlines that [...]
It looks like Bing is testing our introducing a different way of showing rich results on desktop. For recipe related queries, Bing is displaying a carousel that features just three recipes initially. It lets users filter results by total time and other nutrition criteria, but doesn't immediately show the option to compare recipes. Some people [...]
The Yoast WordPress SEO plugin has recently been updated with how-to block. This new release even adds to the top of the meta box as well as schema and security fixes. Yoast’s new how-to block. Image source: Yoast blog. Yoast, who referred back to Google’s announcement of support for how-to structured data at the I/O conference [...]