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Rich Snippets – Will They Deliver More Traffic From Google


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Rich Snippets – Will They Deliver More Traffic From Google?


Rich Snippets are simply HTML code or formats you use to
help the search engines provide extra information about
your content. This added information can make your page’s
listing much more visible/useful in the search engines,
especially Google.

While Google clearly states on its Webmasters Tools page
that using Rich Snippets WON’T affect your rankings in
their search results or even guarantee that your markup
will be presented in their search – Rich Snippets may become
very important for the “amount” of traffic you receive from
the search engines.

Why?

Mainly because using these “Rich Snippets” will make your listing
much more visible in the search engines. It could give you a
competitive edge over your rivals, especially if they’re not using
the markups. For example, your product listing or review could be
presented in the search engine with a “starred” rating and/or the
price displayed, as well as other information about your company
or business.

All this extra data is presented in the SERPS and makes it much
easier for the searcher to read/find the information they’re looking
for in their search. It also makes it more likely they will click
your link if they see all this information displayed… even if your
listing is not in the top spot but further down the page.

Using Rich Snippets could make your site or page “stand-out” from
the crowd and get you that vital click.

Here’s a Google video explaining Rich Snippets:


Google will recognize three types of formats when crawling/indexing
your pages: Microdata, Microformats and RDFa. You can find Google’s
explanation here: Rich Snippets

Currently, the kind of content supported are:

Reviews
People
Products
Businesses and organizations
Recipes
Events
Music

Plus, you can also use a Rich Snippet or Markup for Videos using
either Facebook Share and Yahoo! SearchMonkey RDFa. Find out how
here: Video Rich Snippets

Here’s a Google video explaining “Product Rich Snippet”



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Here’s another Google video explaining “Review Rich Snippet”



Finally, once you get all your Rich Snippets and Markups in
place on your webpages, you can check them through this
testing tool from Google:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Remember, there’s no guarantee that Google will use your
snippets, but fully optimizing your content or site simply
means you must use these markups in the future. Besides,
if you run a review or product site, just the possibility of
having all this extra information displayed in Google or
any search engine is well worth the extra work.


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Titus Hoskins

www.bizwaremagic.com

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How “Google Plus Your World” Affects Your Traffic


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How “Google Plus Your World” Affects Your Traffic



Google Spot!




Just when I thought Google couldn’t pull out anymore
surprises – they start 2012 off by rolling out “Google Plus
Your World”. This really personalizes your Google search,
especially with it comes to all those Google+ profiles
and posts.

Your searches in Google can now relate directly to the
people and topics you care about in your life. Google will
now show “personal results”, “profiles in search” and “people
and pages” in their results and autocomplete.


http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/search-plus-your-world.html

Google is reasoning that behind each search query there
is a whole community which the searcher might want to
follow or join. It gives Google search a much broader
application when it comes to finding information on the
web.

Nothing wrong with that but…

Many are saying Google is too self-promotional by just
using their own Google+ system – why not include Twitter
and Facebook profiles as well? Actually, there are
several ongoing disputes regarding this matter and whether
or not Google has complete access to data from Twitter
and Facebook.

Here’s an interesting video with Google executive chairman
Eric Schmidt where he states they’re not favoring Google+
in the results. You can judge for yourself:


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Regardless of this argument, a much more beneficial question
will have to be…

What does “Google Plus Your World” mean for your site’s traffic
and/or online marketing?

First, now more than ever, you simply have to have a Google+
profile for yourself or your company. The traffic and SEO benefits
are simply too great to ignore. You must have a Google+ account
and promote it along with all your other social profiles such
as Twitter and Facebook.

In addition, you should be making regular Google+ posts with
photos… as all these will now show up in Google search. This
is another fast way to get your content displayed on Google.

Keep in mind, once someone is logged into Google, their previous
clicked sites and activity will show up at the top of the
listings. This makes organic search and rankings less important
because any site can now be at the top; build up a large
active community around your site and you will get more
repeat traffic from Google.

Just like every savvy online marketer knows how to get their
content into Google News within minutes, now we also have
Google+ as a direct way into Google search. Marketers and
webmasters should take advantage of.

This also opens up another door when it comes to marketing
on the web. As studies have shown, personal “product recommendations”
from friends and family do play a major role in what products
we finally decide to buy. Factoring in the whole new “Google Plus
Your World” element will give marketers another road to pursue.

All this can mean much more targeted traffic to your site
and a greater opportunity to build a list of prospects (community)
around your site’s topic. The same goes for any company
or site promoting their products on the web.

In the near future, we should all be prepared for Google’s
next moves. Especially in the area of Authorship Markup and
how it plays into these new Google+ changes to personal
search. In addition, be prepared for Rich Snippets to play
a major role in Google SERPs, but that’s another topic for
a future newsletter.

For now, everyone should be exploring Google+ and taking
advantage of what it can do for their site or company in Google’s
new “Plus Your World” universe. Just personalize Google’s
new changes to meet your own needs.


Helping People Succeed Online Since 2002!

Kind Regards,
Titus Hoskins

www.bizwaremagic.com

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Are You Using A Google Sitemap?


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Are You Using A Google Sitemap?




Google Spot!





How To Use A Google Sitemap?


A sitemap is just a list of all the URLs or pages
on your site. Search engines use these sitemaps
to help index your site.

That’s basically what a sitemap is and what it does.

If you have a small site (less than 500 pages)
one of the fastest and simplest ways to get
or generate a sitemap is to use this site:

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com

Go to that link and put in your site’s URL
and it will generate a sitemap for you within
a few minutes. It will give you an XML file of
all the URLs on your site.

Upload your XML sitemap file to your server
where your site is located. Then check this
file in a few browsers such as Firefox,
Google Chrome… to see if it is displayed
properly.

Few other things you might want to do to make
sure search engines find your sitemap. You can
submit your sitemap to Google’s Webmasters Tool.

In addition, you can give a “Priority” to how
you want the search engines to rank your page
WITHIN your own site. Your main homepage would
be “1” and the other pages can be prioritized
to the way you want them.

Of course, there is much more to Sitemaps then
this simple example. What if you have a site
that is constantly updating and adding pages
each day?

Then you’re probably going to have to install
a sitemap generator on your server – which
can get a little complicated, especially if
you’re not good with handling scripts.

But if you want to find out more about sitemaps
try here:

Google Sitemaps Explained


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Titus Hoskins

www.bizwaremagic.com

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