Google Displaying Company Google+ Logos In Search Results With & Without Rel Publisher

Google is now showing Google+ logos and icons for company profiles in the rich snippets portion of their search results listing. Ross Hudgens spotted the Google+ icon displayed next to the search result for the company’s listing. Rel=publisher markup is not required for the logo to show up. I…

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From Microdata & Schema To Rich Snippets: Markup For The Advanced SEO

Last week, I attended the SMX Advanced session, “From Microdata & Schema To Rich Snippets: Markup For The Advanced SEO,” moderated by Elisabeth Osmeloski with speakers Marcus Tober, founder of Searchmetrics Inc., Julia Gause, Director of SEM for Scripps Network and Stephan Spencer,…

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Web Spam Benefits From Using Rel=”Author”

A new video by Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, talks about how potentially using rel=”author” structured data can help Google’s web spam team improve search quality. Matt Cutts explains that moving from the anonymous web to a web with identity helps Google…

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Google Adds Structured Data Markup Helper Tool

Google announced today a new, fun and useful tool to help webmasters markup their webpages with schema structured data. Structured data markup can help a webpage enhance its search listings by adding rich snippets to the search results page. Google ann…

No, Publishership Isn’t Coming Soon To Google Search To Join Authorship

There are expectations in some quarters that publishers will soon be able to have their logos showing up in Google in the way that authors can have their pictures appear. But, Google says there are “no plans” for some type of “publishership” to go live similar to the way it…

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