SEO: Structured Data & Schema.org
Structured data is a way for publishers to highlight content on their web pages to help search engines know exactly what certain words relate to, such as product review scores or addresses. Schema.org is a shared markup vocabulary recognized by search engines to help with structured data efforts. Google provides a help section about structured data here. More information on structured data can also be found in our articles below.
Practice useful marketing for local business content success
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Ranking factors session recap from SMX Advanced 2018
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What do Google and a toddler have in common? Both need to learn good listening skills.
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Ask the SMXpert: SEO markup and structured data
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Google may issue manual actions over job schema on expired job listings
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What is GS1 SmartSearch Schema markup and why should e-commerce sites use it?
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Google now wants larger images for AMP articles
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Technical SEO in the age of semantic search and Google
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What’s next for technical SEO?
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10 facts about rich results that all SEOs should know
Columnist John Lincoln provides a lesson in rich results 101 for those who are just getting started with...
Google launches new Rich Results testing tool with some rebranding
In addition to the new testing tool, Google is grouping all the names for these types of search results into the name "Rich...
Google warns webmasters not to use misleading event markup
Google can penalize your website if you use event markup in a misleading...
Google Tag Manager now has a native scroll depth tracking plugin
The new feature lets site owners track vertical and horizontal scrolling on their website...
Google adds structured data for subscription & paywalled content for new flexible sampling program
Excited for the new flexible sampling program for Google web search and Google News? Well, make sure you don't get in trouble for cloaking by...
Bing now officially supports Fact Check label with ClaimReview markup
About a year after Google began showing fact labels in search, Bing has officially begun showing the label in their own search...
Google Image Search adds badges for recipes, videos, products and animated images
Google will now show you if an image in their search results is a GIF or video or recipe with a small little badge on the corner of the...
Bing now supports ClaimReview markup for fact labels in search
9 months after Google began support fact labels in search, Bing now added markup support for ClaimReviews, the annotations behind fact checking...
