In a search engine that answers questions based upon crawling and indexing facts found within structured data on a site, that search engine works differently than a search engine which looks at the words used in a query, and tries to return documents that contain the same words as the ones in the query; hoping that such a matching of strings might contain an actual answer to the informational need that inspired the query in the first place. Search using Structured Data works a little differently, as seen in this flowchart from a 2017 Google patent: In Schema, Structured Data, and Scattered Databases such as the World Wide Web, I talked about the Dipre Algorithm in a patent from Sergey Brin, as I described in the post, Google’s First Semantic Search Invention was Patented in 1999. That patent and algorithm described how the web might be crawled to collect pattern and relations information about specific facts. In that case, about books. In the Google patent on structured data, we see how Google might look for factual information set out in semi-structured data such as JSON-LD, to be able to answer queries about facts, such as, “What is a book, by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1948-1952.
This newer patent tells us that it might solve that book search in this manner:
It was interesting seeing Google come out with a patent about searching semi-structured data which focused upon the use of JSON-LD. We see them providing an example of JSON on one of the Google Developer’s pages at: Introduction to Structured Data As it tells us on that page:
The page then points us to the Structured Data Testing Tool, to be used as you prepare pages for use with Structured Data. It also tells us that for checking on Structured Data after it has been set up, the Structured Data Report in Google Search Console can be helpful, and is what I usually look at when doing site audits.
I’ve used the analogy of how XML sitemaps are machine-readable, compared to HTML Sitemaps, and that is how JSON-LD shows off facts in a machine-readable way on a site, as opposed to content that is in HTML format. As the patent tells us that is the purpose behind this patent:
The patent discusses schemas that might be on a site, and key/value pairs that could be searched, and details about such a search of semi-structured data on a site:
The patent providing details of the use of JSON-LD to provide a machine readable set of facts on a site can be found here: Storing semi-structured data Abstract
Take AwaysBy using Structured Data such as in Schema Vocabulary in JSON-LD formatting, you make sure that you provide precise facts in key/value pairs that provide an alternative to the HTML-based content on the pages of a site. Make sure that you follow the Structured Data General Guidelines from Google when you add it to a site. That page tells us that pages that don’t follow the guidelines may not rank as highly, or may become ineligible for rich results appearing for them in Google SERPs. And if you are optimizing a site for Google, it also helps to optimize the same site for Bing, and it is good to see that Bing seems to like JSON-LD too. It has taken a while for Bing to do that (see Aaron Bradle’s post, An Open Letter to Bing Regarding JSON-LD.) It appears that Bing has listened a little, adding some capacity to check on JSON-LD after it is deployed: Bing announces Bing AMP viewer & JSON-LD support in Bing Webmaster Tools. The Bing Markup Validator does not yet help with JSON-LD, but Bing Webmaster Tools now helps with debugging JSON-LD. I like using this Structured Data Linter myself. Copyright © 2018 SEO by the Sea ⚓. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at may be guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact SEO by the Sea, so we can take appropriate action immediately. Plugin by Taragana The post Google Patent on Structured Data Focuses upon JSON-LD appeared first on SEO by the Sea ⚓. from http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seobythesea/Tesr/~3/5KO-IxVqTK0/
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I spoke at SMX Advanced this week on Schema markup and Structured Data, as part of an introduction to its use at Google. I had the chance to visit Seattle, and tour some of it. I took some photos, but would like to go back sometimes and take a few more, and see more of the City. One of the places that I did want to see was Pike Place market. It was a couple of blocks away from the Hotel I stayed at (the Marriott Waterfront.) It is a combination fish and produce market, and is home to one of the earliest Starbucks.
I could see living near the market and shopping there regularly. It has a comfortable feel to it. This is a view of the Farmers Market from the side. I wish I had the chance to come back later in the day, and see what it was like other than in the morning. This was a nice little park next to Pike Place Market, which looked like a place to take your dog for a walk while in the area, and had a great view of Elliot Bay (the central part of Puget Sound.) This is a view of the waterfront from closer to the conference center. You can see Mount Ranier from the top of the Conference Center. My presentation for SMX Advanced 2018: frame> Schema, Structured Data & Scattered Databases Such as the World Wide Web. My role in this session is to introduce Schema and Structured Data and how Google is using them on the Web. Google is possibly best known for the PageRank Algorithm invented by founder Lawrence Page, whom it is named after. In what looks like the second patent filed by someone at Google was the DIPRE (Dual interative pattern relation expansion) patent, invented and filed by Sergey Brin. He didn’t name it after himself (Brinrank) like Page did with PageRank. The provisional patent filed for this invention was the whitepaper, “Extracting Patterns and Relations from Scattered Databases such as the World Wide Web.” The process behind it is set out in the paper, and it involves a list of 5 books, titles, their authors, Publishers, Year published. Unlike PageRank, it doesn’t involve crawling webpages, and indexing links from Page to page and anchor text. Instead, it involves collecting facts from page to page, and when it finds pages that contain properties and attributes from these five books, it is supposed to collect similar facts about other books on the same site. And once it has completed, it is supposed to move on to other sites and look for those same 5 books, and collect more books. The idea is to eventually know where all the books are on the Web, and facts about those books, that could be used to answer questions about them. This is where we see Google being concerned about structured data on the web, and how helpful knowing about it could be. When I first started out doing inhouse SEO, it was for a Delaware incorporation business, and geography was an important part of the queries that my pages were found for. I had started looking at patents, and ones such as this one on “Generating Structured Data caught my attention. It focused on collecting data about local entities, or local businesses, and properties related to those. It was built by the team led by Andrew Hogue, who was in charge of the Annotation framework at Google, who were responsible for “The Fact Repository”, an early version of Google’s Knowledge Graph. If you’ve heard of NAP consistency, and of mentions being important to local search, it is because Local search was focusing on collecting structured data that could be used to answer questions about businesses. Patents about location prominence followed, which told us that a link counted as a mention, and a patent on local authority, which determined which Website was the authoritative one for a business. But, it seemed to start with collecting structured data about businesses at places. The DIPRE Algorithm focused upon crawling the web to find facts, and Google Maps built that into an approach that could be used to rank places and answer questions about them. If you haven’t had a chance to use Google’s experimental table search, it is worth trying out. It can answer questions to find answers from data-based tables across the web, such as “what is the longest wooden pier in California”, which is the one in Oceanside, a town next to the one I live in. It is from a Webtables project at Google. Database fields are sometimes referred to as schema and table headers which tell us what kind of data is in a table column may also be referred to as “schema”. A data-based web table could be considered a small structured database, and Google’s Webtable project found that there was a lot of information that could be found in web tables on the Web. Try out the first link above (the WebTables Project Slide) when you get the chance, and do some searches on Google’s table search. The second paper is one that described the WebTables project when it first started out, and the one that follows it describes some of the things that Google researchers learned from the Project. We’ve seen Structured Snippets like the one above grabbing facts to include in a snippet (in this case from a data table on the Wikipedia page about the Oceanside Pier.) When a data table column contains the same data that another table contains, and the first doesn’t have a table header label, it might learn a label from the second table (and this is considered a way to learn semantics or meaning from tables) These are truly scattered databases across the World Wide Web, but through the use of crawlers, that information can be collected and become useful, like the DIPRE Algorithm described. In 2005, the Official Google Blog published this short story, which told us about Google sometimes answering direct questions in response to queries at the top of Web results. I don’t remember when these first started appearing, but do remember Definition results about a year earlier, which you could type out “Define:” and a word or ask “What is” before a word and Google would show a definition, and there was a patent that described how they were finding definitions from glossary pages, and how to ideally set up those glossaries, so that your definitions might be the ones that end up as responses. In 2012, Google introduced the Knowledge Graph, which told us that they would be focusing upon learning about specific people, places and things, and answering questions about those instead of just continuing to match keywords in queries to keywords in documents. They told us that this was a move to things instead of strings. Like the books in Brin’s DIPRE or Local Entities in Google Maps. We could start using the Web as a scattered database, with questions and answers from places such as Wikipedia tables helping to answer queries such as “What is the capital of Poland” And Knowledge bases such as Wikipedia, Freebase, IMDB and Yahoo Finance could be the sources of facts about properties and attributes about things such as movies and actors and businesses where Google could find answers to queries without having to find results that had the same keywords in the document as the query. In 2011, The Schema.org site was launched as a joint project from Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Yandex, that provided machine-readable text that could be added to web pages. This text is provided in a manner that is machine readable only, much like XML sitemaps are intended to be machine-readable, to provide an alternative channel of information to search engines about the entities pages are about, and the properties and attributes on those pages. While Schema.org was introduced in 2011, it was built to be extendable, and to let subject matter experts be able to add new schema, like this extension from GS1 (the inventors of barcodes in brick and mortar stores) If you haven’t tried out this demo from them, it is worth getting your hands on to see what is possible. In 2014, Google published their Biperpedia paper, which tells us about how they might create ontologies from Query streams (sessions about specific topics) by finding terms to extract data from the Web about. At one point in time, Search engines would do focused crawls of the web starting at sources such as DMOZ, so that the Index of the Web they were constructing contained pages about a wide range of categories. By using query stream information, they are crowdsourcing the building of resources to build ontologies about. This paper tells us that Biperpedia enabled them to build ontologies that were larger than what they had developed through Freebase, which may be partially why Freebase was replaced by wiki data. The Google+ group I’ve linked to above on the Schema Resources Page has members who work on Schema from Google, such as Dan Brickley, who is the head of schema for Google. Learning about extensions is a good idea, especially if you might consider participating in building new ones, and the community group has a mailing list, which lets you see and participate in discussions about the growth of Schema. Copyright © 2018 SEO by the Sea ⚓. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at may be guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact SEO by the Sea, so we can take appropriate action immediately. Plugin by Taragana The post Schema, Structured Data, and Scattered Databases such as the World Wide Web appeared first on SEO by the Sea ⚓. from http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seobythesea/Tesr/~3/YnqcGY7LnuI/ Google Introduces Combined Content ResultsWhen Google patents talk about paid search, they refer to those paid results as “content” rather than as advertisements. A recent patent from Google (Combining Content with Search Results) tells us about how Google might identify when organic search results might be about specific entities, such as brands. It may also recognize when paid results are about the same brands, whether they might be products from those brands. In the event that a set of search results contains high ranking organic results from a specific brand, and a paid search result from that same brand, the process described in the patent might allow for the creation of a combined content result of the organic result with the paid result. Merging Local and Organic Results in the Past
When I saw this new patent, it brought back memories of when Google found a way to merge organic search results with local search results. The day after I wrote about that, in the following post, I received a call from a co-worker who asked me if I had any idea why a top ranking organic result for a client might have disappeared from Google’s search results. I asked her what the query term was, and who the client was. I performed the search, and noticed that our client was ranking highly for that query term in a local result, but their organic result had disappeared. I pointed her to the blog post I wrote the day before, about Google possibly merging local and organic results, with the organic result disappearing, and the local result getting boosted in rankings. It seemed like that is what happened to our client, and I sent her a link to my post, which described that. How Google May Diversify Search Results by Merging Local and Web Search Results Google did merge that client’s organic listing with their local listing, but it appeared that was something that they ended up not doing too often. I didn’t see them do that too many more times. I am wondering, will Google start merging together paid search results with organic search results? If they would do that for local and organic results, which rank things in different ways, it is possible that they might with organic and paid. The patent describes how. The newly granted patent does tell us about how paid search works in Search results at Google:
Combining Paid and Organic ResultsHere is the process behind this new patent involving merging paid results (content) and organic results:
When Google decides whether the eligible content item is associated with the same brand as an organi result, it is a matter of determining that one content item is sponsored by an owner of the brand. A combined result (of the paid and the organic results covering the same brand) includes combining what the patent is referring to as “a visual universal resource locator (VisURL),” That combined item would include:
In addition to the brand owner, the organic result that could be combine might be from a retailer associated with the brand. It can involve designating content from the sponsored item that is included in the combined content item as sponsored content (so it may show that content from the paid result as being an ad.) It may also include “monetizing interactions with material that is included from the at least one eligible content item that is included in the combined content item based on user interactions with the material.” Additional items shown could include an image or logo associated with the brand, or one or more products associated with the brand, or combine additional links relevant to the result. The patent behind this approach of combining paid and organic results was this one, granted in April: Combining content with a search result Abstract
The patent does include details on things such as an “entity/brand determination engine,” which can be used to compare paid results with organic results, to see if they cover the same brand. This is one of the changes that indexing things instead of strings is bringing us. The patent does have many other details, and until Google announces that they are introducing this, I suspect we won’t hear more details from them about it. Then again, they didn’t announce officially that they were merging organic and local results when they started doing that. Don’t be surprised if this becomes available at Google. Copyright © 2018 SEO by the Sea ⚓. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at may be guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact SEO by the Sea, so we can take appropriate action immediately. Plugin by Taragana The post Google to Offer Combined Content (Paid and Organic) Search Results appeared first on SEO by the Sea ⚓. from http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seobythesea/Tesr/~3/CqhevbwaEXI/ Original source: 10 Tips to Get More YouTube Subscribers via DailySEOblog. Did you know that the very first video on YouTube was uploaded on April 23, 2005? It was an 18 second video titled “Me at the Zoo” and had never been publicly shown before, until now. At present, YouTube subscribers account for almost one-third of the Internet users, numbering in the billions. Driven by the... from https://dailyseoblog.com/get-youtube-subscribers/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss So you have opened a business, and now you need to market your business. You will want to learn how to create a small business website to market it effectively. Here on this page, we are going to go through the necessary steps to creating a business website. Each step is usually linked to a more detailed page on each topic. We have broken it down into five steps on how to create a small business website. Keep in mind this is just building the site, later on, we will go over getting it ranked so your customers can find you. Step One: Picking out the Best HostingWhen you start building a house or a building you want to make sure you have a strong foundation right? That is what you’re doing by picking out the best hosting solution for your small business. We have used many hosting providers in the past and have landed on one that offers the best potential for any small business owner. They keep it simple and straightforward. Step Two: Picking out the Best Domain NameThis is important as once you have started building your website you’re not going to want to switch this. Once links are built, you don’t want to move your site over to only lose all that work you have already done. Here are the more detailed steps in picking out a domain name. Step Three: Choose the best Website Builder PlatformWe discuss why we have picked WordPress for our website builder platform. Just keep in mind if you decide to go with Squarespace, Wix, Weebly or some other platform most likely you will not be able to move your website. Step Four: The Top Professional WordPress ThemeSelecting the right WordPress theme can make or break your website. There are thousands of WordPress themes out there. We have tried Genesis by StudioPress and have gotten entirely frustrated using their themes. Being a small business owner, I didn’t have the time or patience to deal with coding a website or paying someone to do it. That is when we found an easy to use WordPress themes that are coded for speed. Step Five: Creating Content (Content is King)Creating lots of quality content is not an easy task. Creating content very time-consuming. That is the reason small business marketing firms like Ignited Biz, LLC charge so much to build and maintain sites. If you want to dominate the search engine, then you need to be creating content two to three times a week at minimum. How to Create a Small Business Website Conclusion:This post was designed to keep everything at the basic level, and I hope I didn’t bore anyone. If you are just starting out building your business website the steps we have outlined above is the best way to start and build your small business website. Let me know if you have any questions on how to create a small business website. In a later post, we will go over ranking your website and how to start getting traffic. We will also discuss social media marketing later on in our 90 Day Marketing Plan.
The post How to Create a Small Business Website appeared first on Ignited Biz, LLC. source https://ignitedbiz.com/how-to-create-a-small-business-website/ from https://ignitedbizcom.blogspot.com/2018/05/how-to-create-small-business-website_20.html https://ignitedbiz.com/how-to-create-a-small-business-website/ This video does a simple breakdown on How to Create a Small Business Website. This video is designed for a beginner but even advanced users might pick up a tip or two. If you're starting a local small business website you don't have to feel like your on an island all by yourself. In this, you will learn the simple steps to get started. Watch video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/9zAE1DWzq8s from https://ignitedbizcom.blogspot.com/2018/05/how-to-create-small-business-website.html Original source: 10 Top Affiliate Networks to Make Money via DailySEOblog. I am amazed to see how Affiliate Marketing has gained traction in recent times. It is a part of the marketing strategy of almost all leading brands in the world. In fact, US affiliate marketing spend is expected to increase at a CAGR of 10.1% between 2015 and 2020, to become an estimated $6.8 billion... from https://dailyseoblog.com/10-top-affiliate-networks-to-make-money/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss A question that gets asked several times: what is the best website builder for small business? This is an important question? You will be spending valuable time or money to have one built. You don’t want to create a website only to be stuck with that web hosting provider. You get stuck when you use propriety software to make your site. Building a site with Google, Godaddy, Wix or other website builder platforms is not a good idea. Once you have created it with one of these companies, their terms and conditions bind you along with being a hostage to pay whatever fee they charge to host it. These sites use propriety software to construct your website. Why are you, hostage? Well, these platforms use special HTML that is different from company to company. They say they have easy to use WYSIWYG (an acronym for “what you see is what you get”), builders. But once you build a site on these platforms, you can not quickly move it to another. In fact, most likely it will be impossible to move without a considerable cost of time and money. So what do you need when looking for a website builder? Top Website Builders for Small BusinessesThings to look for when choosing a website builder:
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