schema.org Gets Its Game on with v1.92
Dan Brickley of Google today announced a major new release of schema.org, in beta known as "venkman" (yes, after the Ghost Busters character) and released as schema.org version 1.92. This may well be...
View ArticleJSON-LD's Big Day at Google
Yesterday Google made three announcements which were not only relevant to practitioners of semantic search engine optimization ("semantic SEO"), but which also explictly expanded the role JSON-LD...
View ArticleFirst Rich Snippets from JSON-LD Spotted in the Wild (And They're Delicious)
Webmasters accustomed to marking up pages with structured data in order to generate rich snippets in Google have long looked forward to the day when Google sanctioned the use of JSON-LD for this...
View ArticleGoogle Now Supports JSON-LD for Product and Review Rich Snippets
Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller announced today on Google+ that Google is now supporting JSON-LD "for Reviews and Products structured data markup." Until today the generation of review...
View Article"Top Stories with AMP" Added to Google Structured Data Site
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View ArticleGoogle Structured Data Testing Tool Updated
The Google Structured Data Testing Tool has been given a makeover, as noted yesterday by Kenichi Suzuki on Google+. In addition to updating the Testing Tool, Google has also published a help page on...
View ArticleRich Cards and Google's Structured Data Restructuring
On 17 May 2016 Google rolled out a number of changes to how the search engine handles structured data on the web. Among the most important of these changes are the introduction of a new rich results...
View ArticleWhat's New with Structured Data and Markup?
I'm just back from Seattle, where I had the pleasure of speaking at yet another sold out SMX Advanced. The topic of my talk was "What's New with Markup and Structured Data", where I reviewed recent...
View ArticleGoogle Now Supports Critic Reviews for Local Businesses
Yesterday Google updated its structured data documentation on reviews to include guidelines and code specifications for the creation of critic reviews for local businesses, along with a number of...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Bing Regarding JSON-LD
Hi Bing, how's it going? Pretty well, I think. I was really happy to learn in October 2015 that Bing had started turning a profit. Competition in the search engine arena is vital, as it provides...
View ArticleGoogle Assistant Now Natively Supports Podcasts, Recipes and News
I encountered a tweet today from Dan Sure which provided the text of an intriguing notification from Google concerning the use of podcasts, recipes and news by Google Assistant, Google's virtual...
View ArticleHow to Use schema.org Enumerations
Enumerations are a feature of schema.org that allow publishers to select a value for a property from a restricted list of values, such as the answer to a question where the only possible responses are...
View ArticleGoogle Introduces Media Actions, Powered by JSON-LD Data Feeds
On 12 June Google introduced a new section on its Developers site, Media Actions. These actions "enable users to initiate media content (e.g. songs, albums, movies) on content provider applications...
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