Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Google's New Mobile Testing Tool

Mobile is close to our heart - we love seeing more and more sites make their content available in useful & accessible ways for mobile users. To help keep the ball rolling, we've now launched a new Mobile Friendly Test.
The new tool is linked from Search Console's mobile usability report or available directly at https://search.google.com/search-console/mobile-friendly

Using Search Console with your Website or Mobile Application

Google Webmaster Tools is now Google Search Console

 This is a MUST for SEO on any website.


Search Console provides actionable reports, tools, and learning resources designed to get your content on Google Search. You can use Search Console both for websites and for mobile applications; if you have a mobile application, read this page instead.



A. add your website to search console.
B. Add your Mobile Application to Search Console
C. Are AMP Pages for those business that do NOT have a Mobile Application?
D. Google Now Cards or AMP? Is one for local is one for content that replaces a mobile application on a mobile device? With the large majority of users being on a mobile device, that is the "new priority", what is best for your business? 



Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Schema for Retail: Enabling Rich Snippets for Products #SEO #guano

SEO Guano
If you're a merchant, you can give Google detailed product information that we can use to display rich snippets (for example, price, availability, and review ratings) right on our search results pages.
Using markup to enable rich snippets lets you:
  • Attract potential buyers while they are searching for items to buy on Google.
  • Control your product information. You can maintain the accuracy and freshness of your product information, so your customers find the relevant, current items they're looking for.

Trigger a Google Now Card via Email

Google Now relies on structured data compatible with schema.org in emails to work. This lets Google understand the fields in your email and construct a Google Now card with the relevant information for the recipient. Only some card types are supported by Google Now.
Schemas in Gmail support both JSON-LD and Microdata and you can use either of them to markup an email. There are two ways of adding semantic markup to your email - you can author the markup yourself or use the Markup Helper to get you started by adding markup to an existing email.