Google Search Console adds image license structured data support
Now you can debug your image license markup in the Rich Results test tool or in Search Console.
Topic: Metadata
What to look at when considering a Digital Asset Management platform
What do all DAMs do, and what are the points of differentiation between them?
Google adds ClaimReview or Fact Check schema support for images
This won't improve your rankings but it may lead to better click-through rates.
What’s Digital Asset Management and why are marketers adopting the technology?
The dramatic growth of both media assets and devices is fueling an interest in systems to organize digital assets.
Chapter 4: HTML Code & Search Engine Success Factors
These elements in the Periodic Table of SEO Factors encompass the HTML tags that provide crucial information to search engines. They help highlight key parts of your content and influence how your pages appear in search results. Are you describing movie showtimes? Do you have ratings and reviews on your e-commerce pages? What’s the headline […]
Schema.org adds coronavirus-related structured data types in version 7.0
“SpecialAnnouncement” and “eventAttendanceMode” can help businesses provide event updates in the search results.
Digital asset management platforms: What are they good for?
DAM can play a vital role in your marketing organization, unifying online and offline marketing channels and leading to more efficient marketing resource allocation.
Google Images to replace dimensions overlay on image thumbnails
Google will instead show product, recipe, video, and soon, licensable labels in place of that dimensions information.
Google adds new image license metadata for licensable image label
Google is beta testing a new way for sites to display licensing information about content that appears in Google Images.
Google Dataset Search is out of beta and adds new features
If you want to capitalize on this speciality search engine, make sure to add datasets schema where applicable.
Google search adds key moments for videos in search
It is live, the "in this video" timeline feature in search is officially live and works for English YouTube videos.
Google tests “in this video” search feature
How cool is this new Google search feature that breaks down the sections of the video you are watching.
Yoast adds image and video Schema with 11.1 update
The enhancements claim to make it easier to provide what search engines need to make sense of your videos.
Google brings search to podcasts through automatic transcription
Better enunciate, your Google Podcasts visibility may depend on it.
Google explains how dates within search results snippets work
Don't try to trick Google with fake dates in your content, it can back fire.
New Google Image Search desktop design is now rolling out
In addition, Google has added Creator and Credit metadata support to image search.
Aivon launches blockchain-based protocol for ‘first decentralized video search engine’
The Singapore-based organization is launching a non-profit community composed of token-incentivized humans who validate AI-generated metadata.
Google search adds dataset schema support to search results
Data nuts, here is your chance to get your data and charts looking pretty in the Google search results snippets.
Google News no longer supports the standout meta tag and Editors’ Pick
A few months after Google drops support for the meta news keywords tag, Google removes two other webmaster-related publisher features.
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 image.
Google announces similar items schema for image search on mobile
New search feature covers small group of product types now, but Google says it will expand in the coming months.
Google expands fact-checking effort to all searches worldwide
Is an online claim true or not? Google hopes special callouts for fact-checking articles will help searchers get the right answers or better make their own decisions.
SearchCap: Google offensive results, Google Fred update & Google Assistant
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in searchMar 14, 2017 by Danny Sullivan Using data from human “quality raters,” Google hopes to teach its algorithms how to […]
Google News adds “Fact check” label for articles that contain fact-checking content
Google says articles that include the schema.org ClaimReview markup will have the Fact Check tag.
Google adds new schema named “Science Datasets” for marking up scientific or government data
A new Google pilot program now allows publishers to describe CSV and other tabular datasets for scientific and government data.
Local businesses trump big businesses when it comes to delivering on-site updates
Columnist Myles Anderson shares the results of a recent BrightLocal survey about the impact of on-site SEO on rankings for local businesses.
Find Cat Pictures Quicker: Imgur Rolls Out A New Look With Advanced Image Search
The wildly popular image host, Imgur, has new duds and some powerful search tools that can help users identify viral images quicker than ever. Thanks to new image tagging, advanced search, Imgur may become a platform in which users frequent first, rather than find via a social posting. The first thing to notice to the […]
Up Close @ SMX: Enhancing Results With Structured Data & Markup
When you think about the job the search engines have to do it’s pretty daunting. Given a collection of mostly wildly unstructured data from an endless number of sources, Bing, Google and the others have to somehow make sense of all that information and then give it back to us on demand in a way […]
Google’s Matt Cutts Loses His Body To Stress Importance Of Body Content To Search Engines
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a fun video where fellow Googler, Michael Wyszomierski, cropped out his body in the video to make a point. The statement Matt made was that there is importance of content in the body of a page and not just the header, such as the title tag. If […]
Schema For User Actions Now Available
Schema.org announced a new form of Schema they have introduced with support from Google, Microsoft Bing, Yahoo and Yandex named Actions. Schema Actions are a way to communicate via markup on your web page the actions they enable and how these actions can be invoked. Technically, Schema.org describes it as: An action performed by a […]
New Search Engine Indexes Thousands Of Radio Stations With Artist, Song, Genre & Show Search Filters
A beta version of RadioSearchEngine.com launched this week after more than a year in development. According to its creator Michael Robertson, the site is the world’s first radio search engine, “There are other directories of A-Z lists of radio stations, but this is the first search engine where any song or artist can be located […]
Structured Data Superstars @ SMX East
Structured data has become a hot topic over the past year or so, and at SMX East, the room was packed for the Structured Data Superstars session. Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times kicked it off with a very impressive look at how the Times spent the last three years developing and implementing structured […]
Google News Showing Old Stories As New: A Google Bug Or Publisher Hack?
Last week, I reported on the Search Engine Roundtable, a huge array of complaints from Google News publishers and searchers that some news outlets are showing old stories in Google News, but they are appearing as breaking new stories. The example I gave was a story from USA Today showing as being 14 minutes old […]
Google Authorship Beyond Webpages
In last month’s post about authorship, I shared that Google has been experimenting with inferring authorship for PDF documents in addition to webpages. This piqued my curiosity to see if any other indexable filetypes could also have inferred authorship. Microsoft Office Files PowerPoint files appear to infer authorship similar to PDFs and webpages, looking for […]
Attention Merchants: New Changes To Google Shopping Feed Specifications
Google announced changes to the Google Shopping Feed Specification today. Here is a review of the updates and deadlines to be aware of: Products Without Unique Identifiers In the biggest change, Google has added the ‘identifier exists’ attribute for merchants selling custom goods and other products that don’t have unique identifiers like brand names or MPN codes. In categories […]
Google Answers Who’s That Actor In That Movie In Google Play TV App
Google announced they can now tell you the name of the actors in a movie when you are unsure of the name of the actor or actress. The Google Play TV or Movies Android App specifically for U.S. based Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and higher tablet devices can give you the answer. For a […]
Bing Linked Pages Now Called Bing Tags
Earlier this year, Bing announced a new featured named Bing Linked Pages, that feature is now named Bing Tags. The feature allows you or your friends to “tag” web pages and documents in Bing’s index as being related to you or your friend. The purpose is to make the search results for you and your […]
Google’s Authorship Fail: How Truman Capote Was Credited As A NYT Writer 28 Years After His Death
If you happened to do certain abortion-related searches in the past few days, you might’ve been surprised to see the late Truman Capote getting Google+ Authorship credit for an article from The New York Times. What makes it odd, of course, is that Capote died in 1984. He wrote numerous classics that showed up on […]
Up Close: Using The “News Keywords” Tag For Google News
It’s been about two months since Google launched a “news keywords” meta tag for news publishers. How’s it going? Why didn’t Google the standard meta keywords tag? The company’s not saying, but it did shed a little more light on how to use the tag. Google launched the news keywords tag in September, designed as […]
SMX East 2012: Schema 101: Why The New Meta Data Matters
Schema 101: Why The New Meta Data Matters Presentations from SMX East, October 2012 Schema.org is a joint alliance between Google, Microsoft and others to provide a common foundation for microdata standards. In other words, provide trusted meta data that allow site owners to express important “facts” about their businesses that both inform searchers and […]