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Google Gives Webmasters Alternative To Markup With Data Highlighter

Google Gives Webmasters Alternative To Markup With Data Highlighter

By Chris Crum December 12, 2012 | 1 Comment

Google announced the launch of Data Highlighter in Webmaster Tools, a tool for event data (and soon other types of data) that gives them an alternative to having to markup their sites. It lets webmasters show Google pieces of data …

Webmaster Tools Gets new Structured Data Tool Webmaster Tools Gets new Structured Data Tool
By · August 1, 2012 · 3 Comments

Google has added a new feature to Webmaster Tools called the Structured Data Dashboard. The purpose, Google says, is to provide webmasters with more visibility into the structured data that Google knows about for their site. It comes with three …

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Google Updates Rich Snipppets, Author Stats MIA Google Updates Rich Snipppets, Author Stats MIA
By · April 17, 2012 · 2 Comments

Update: A Google spokesperson tells WebProNews, “We’ve currently disabled the experimental ‘Author stats’ feature in Webmaster Tools Labs as we work to fix a bug in the way stats are attributed.” Google announced that Product Rich Snippets are now supported …

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Google Adds Info About Concerts Near You Google Adds Info About Concerts Near You
By · February 24, 2012

Google announced the addition of upcoming concert dates to search results for bands and music artists, by location. The goal is for users to be able to see when they’re favorite music acts are performing somewhere within their own vicinity. …

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Google Rich Snippets: Take Better Advantage Of Them Google Rich Snippets: Take Better Advantage Of Them
By · December 23, 2011 · 3 Comments

Google has put out a series of videos to help you better take advantage of their rich snippet offerings. Doing so can help your content stand out in search results, and inspire more clicks and search traffic. In an increasingly …

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Google and Bing Changes You Need to Know About Google and Bing Changes You Need to Know About
By · September 15, 2011 · 22 Comments

There have been a whole lot of announcements from the major search engines this week, that all webmasters should be aware of – especially from Google, because while its market share may have slipped slightly (while Bing-powered search has grown …

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Google Launches Rich Snippets for Music Google Launches Rich Snippets for Music
By · August 18, 2011

Google announced that it has launched rich snippets for music. This allows webmasters to mark up pages using the music markup to allow search results to display song info in the snippet. The feature is already being utilized by MySpace, …

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Google, Bing, and Yahoo Work Together on Search Google, Bing, and Yahoo Work Together on Search
By · June 2, 2011

Bing, Google and Yahoo have teamed up to announce schema.org, an initiative to support a common set of schemas for structured data markup on web pages. A representative for Bing tells WebProNews, “Over the past two years, Bing has worked …

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Google Uses Rich Snippets for Local Search
By · September 22, 2010 · 3 Comments

Google announced that it is now using Rich Snippets for local search. Webmasters with pages that in some way pertain to real world places, can utilize these to reference those places and optimize for local search results. 

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Google Highlights Answers in Search Results
By · January 22, 2010 · 9

Google has launched a new feature for search called "answer highlighting." This is based on Google Squared, Google’s structured data project announced last year at the company’s Searchology event. What it does is highlight answers to applicable queries within the search snippet.

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