Data highlighter in WMT displays old version of page

[Milian]

I want to mark up a business address for Google Local, so I thought I would use the data highlighter in WMT. However I only just added the address to the the bottom of the home page and when using data highlighter iit is giving me the old version of page to mark up without the address on.

Rather frustrating, does any body have any experience on the time frame until Google updates the page in the data highlighter?

According to this thread it's not even related to the page re caching:  Data Highlighter: Start link is pulling an old version of page

[BlueprintMarketing]

The only thing I can think of is Google is showing you what it last indexed and that does sound strange. However there is a other way to put your address on schema properly and quickly so you'll get the local search results you want.

Use this tool http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/address/

it's 100% free and has a lot of extra tools connected that are great

You can also utilize

http://schema-creator.org/

If you prefer to use micro data which is almost the same thing as schema you can use this tool.

http://www.microdatagenerator.com/

However I have been told not to mix the two causes some issues with search engines. So take schema or micro data is what I have recently been told I have been trying to get a solid confirmation so I think it's a possibility that it would make sense but don't want to tell you something that is not true.

My $.02 use the 1st tool and it will do the job just fine.

It is in the form of a Word press plug-in but also gives you the ability to create schema correctly right on the site and paste it into your code.

The nice thing about it is there's a little box to the right that gives you a exact match of what it's going to look like on your site.

If you don't want it to look like it formatted anything I would use the 1st tool. However both of them are excellent.

One last thing if you're using WordPress consider Yoast Local SEO it seems expensive but does a fantastic job

More great sources of information

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-use-schema-markup-for-local-seo/

http://searchengineland.com/13-semantic-markup-tips-for-2013-a-local-seo-checklist-143708

Sincerely,

Thomas

[Milian]

Thanks for the tips Thomas. I had considered doing it 'manually' but wanted to experiment with the data highlighter tool.

I'll keep on eye on it and report back the time it took Google to update to the correct preview.

[Milian]

OK I just checked it and it is now updated to the correct preview.

So it took up to approx 19 hours to change. Although bear in mind I wasn't checking it all the time, could be faster. Also note, if you have started highlighting the old version, when you go back into the saved one it will still have the old preview, so you need to start over again.

I can also confirm the preview in the data highlighter is not connected to Google's cache of the page in the index, as the old version of the page is still cached.