As Google has been displaying more and more types of rich snippets in the search results, people have questioned whether having them displayed on a site in the search results meant the site had a ranking boost associated with it. And it is common to see the top ranked sites displaying them for many types […]
Structured Markup Does Not Affect Google Search Rankings
The question came up in today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours about how Google handles sites that use structured markup versus those that don’t, and whether sites that use it get any kind of extra ranking boost when it comes to Google’s search results. Google’s John Mueller confirms that they do not consider the use of […]
3 Google Webmaster Tools For Implementing Structured Data
For some time now, the SEO community has been abuzz about semantic search and incorporating structured data markup to sites in an effort to help search engines understand the context of content on a given page and render rich snippets within search results. And for good reason! In a (relatively) recent case study conducted by […]