which markup matters? by marshall simmonds
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Marshall SimmondsDefine Media Group, Inc.
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Enhancing Search Results With
Structured Data & Markup
Which markup matters?
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Evolution of Indexation
• Crawling
• HTML Sitemaps
• XML Sitemaps – locations
– Definitions (loc, lastmod, etc)
• Images
• Video
• News
• Structured Data
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Why We Do This
“Not every type of information in schema.org will be surfaced
in search results but over time you can expect that more
data will be used in more ways. In addition, since the
markup is publicly accessible from your web pages, other
organizations may find interesting new ways to make use of it
as well.”
-Schema.org FAQ
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Why We Do This
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Chrome
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FireFox
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FireFox 4 hours later
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Methodology• Jan 2012- (last week) 2014
• 50K referrers p/m – 11mm referrers p/m – total ~10 billion PVs
• Seasonality was considered
• Speed of discovery / indexation
• Format Type: Schema.org, Microdata, RDFa, Data-vocabulary
• Traffic increase
• Sustained traffic
• Domain Authority
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Authorship
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Authorship
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Authorship
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Authorship
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Authorship
• Factors – site level
– Authority of the site
– “High quality content”
– Domain longevity
– Varies based on query
• Factors – author level
– Reputation – who you are, where you publish, how long
– Quality of content
– Authority of site contributing to – Guest blogging is ok!
– Varies based on query
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TV Reviews
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TV Reviews
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TV Reviews
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Product Reviews
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Recipes
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Recipe
• Specifically, for recipes, Google requires that:
• Rich snippets are currently only shown for recipes that provide at
least two of the following:
– Photo
– prepTime, cookTime, totalTime, or ingredients
– Calories
– Review
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Recipe – (H Card - microformat)
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Allrecipes says to SHUT UP!
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Recipes
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Search Visits
Search Visits
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Article Markup
• Can encourage In-Depth categorization (with other factors
involved)
• Name, Author, Date Published, Article Body, Headline
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Video
Added
• Description
• Title
• Author
• Thumbnail
• Secure_url
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Results• Authorship – Slow-Medium, Sporadic Appearance – Minimal traffic impact
• TV Reviews – Fast indexation, Slower Appearance (seasonality) - Medium
traffic impact
• Product Reviews – Fast indexation, Fast Appearance – Good traffic
impact
• Recipes – Fast indexation, Fast appearance – Minimal traffic impact
• Article – Difficult to track, Doesn’t require Schema.org – Favors big
brands – Good traffic impact
• Video – Fast indexation, Very Fast appearance – Significant impact
Traffic increases YoY
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Tools
• EasyRecipe Plus does the snippet check automatically as soon as
you publish a post. http://www.easyrecipeplugin.com/snippet-
preview.php
• Plugin that checks your entire site for snippet
generation: http://wordpress.org/plugins/easysnippet/
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More Tools• http://bit.ly/structureddatatools
• http://bit.ly/semsearch
• https://search.nerdydata.com/
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MOAR Take-aways
• It’s early
• One checkpoint in many
• May allow to break through the glass ceiling
• Future proofing
• Google AND Bing want it.
• Video, Product reviews – definitely
• Marathons can be fun!
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Marshall Simmonds
Founder / CEO - Define Media Group, Inc.
www.DefineMG.com
Marshall@DefineMG.com
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