What is structured data? This post explains what structured data, schema.org and JSON-LD is and why it is important for SEO.
To get search engines to fully understand your site, you need structured data in the form of Schema.org. This guide helps you on your way.
Make your product stand out from the competition. Using structured data, it is possible to get rich snippets in the search results.
Your local business should provide structured data in the form of Schema.org to search engines. This way all your information will be visible.
Did you know there are rich results for how-to articles? Get them by building a how-to article using the Yoast SEO HowTo structured data content block.
Everything is happening online, now that the situation with COVID-19 has everyone staying at home as much as possible. You’re not going to events, you’re not sitting down with customers. So, your online presence is more important than ever. Your website is your business card. And you want it to be found! But many people …
Read: "4 tips to quickly improve your website in the current situation"
The outbreak of COVID-19 led to a wave of canceled or postponed events. Some events made the switch from an offline event to an online one. As everyone is scrambling to look up the latest information on events online, it is important to have all the latest details on your website. Search engines can pick …
Read: "Update your cancelled or postponed events with Schema"
A couple of years ago, Google introduced the Sitelinks Searchbox. When activated, this search box appears under the main URL for a given brand in the search results, above its sitelinks, hence the name. When you search for that brand in Google, you can directly use the site’s search engine. The results will be presented …
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Rich search results are everywhere. Years ago, search engines presented search results without much adornment. Today, the search results look very different, especially on mobile. We see extra information beneath the links, plus a couple of big blocks of rich — often visual or action-oriented — content, depending on what you look for. In this …
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Voice search is still hot, but it might be a little slower on the uptake than many predicted. Google and friends continue to bombard the consumer with new devices, with new possibilities and new ways of controlling them via voice. The results for these voice searches comes from a mix of actions, knowledge graph data …
Read: "What’s powering conversational search? Featured snippets, structured data and actions"
Google’s recent run of enhancement reports in Search Console gives you lots of insights into how your site is performing in search. Sometimes, though, it gives you stuff to think about, like errors or improvements to make. For instance, if you run an online store, you’re bound to have come across this structured data error: …
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Reviews or testimonials are mostly said to work on the basis of social proof. Social proof is a psychological process in which people copy the behavior of others, in an attempt to reflect correct behavior. In this post, I’ll take a look at how reviews work and how structured data can help bring them to …
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Google Search Console is an incredibly important tool for website owners. This tool shows you how your site appears in Google’s search results. It also shows you what to improve to make the most of your listings in the results. One of the many cool features of Search Console is the structured data analyses found …
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Yesterday, Google announced a new addition to the rapidly expanding lineup of enhancement reports in Search Console. This time, it’s all about video! You can now not only see how your video performs in search, but also if your videos have valid structured data so they are eligible for rich results. Need help getting your …
Read: "Get Google’s new video reporting with the Yoast Video SEO plugin"
Besides optimizing your product pages for user experience, you want to make sure these pages are as good as possible for SEO as well. Obviously, you might think. In this post, we’ll show you a couple less obvious — at least for most website owners — elements of product page SEO and tell you why …
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Several big search engines developed a project called Schema.org, which contains the structured data markup supported by the search engines. Basically, it’s a large collection of code formats. You can use Schema.org to find the markup you need to add structured data to your page. Here, you can read what we’ve written on this subject! Want to know more? Check out our structured data training!