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Yeah I've done that too, I have left in authorship in some of my content since it does not hurt and if it ever comes back in some form well I guess its there.

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David

Thanks Linda,

Yup aware of the Google author drop, my gut feeling was just to remove it, which I'll do.

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David

I watched recently John Mueller's Google Webmaster Hangout [DEC 5th].

In hit he mentions to a member not to use Schema.org as it's not working quite yet but to use Google's own mark-up tool 'Structured Data Markup Helper'. Fine this I have done and one of the tags I've used is 'AUTHOR'. However if you use Google's Structured Data Testing Tool in GWMT you get an error saying the following Error: Page contains property "author" which is not part of the schema. Yet this is the tag generated by their own tool.

Has anyone experienced this before? and if so what action did you take to rectify it and make it work. As it stands I'm considering just removing this tag altogether.

Thanks

David

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Will do & thanks for the link.

David

Yup many thanks,

I guess I've been not been monitoring this one well. I was aware of these posts but not when the authorship was completely stopped.

David

Many thanks

Yip I'v read these articles (except John's posting). I think though as EGOL is mentioning that the actual removal must have been pretty recent. I for instance could still see authorship details a few days ago.

Maybe it was today, maybe not

David

Thanks for the info.

I checked GWMT tools for any related notifications to this but nothing that I can see.

I suppose there has been much talk of late about the actual effectiveness of authorship in SERPs influence and may be the decided to pull it.

Noticed today that when I search (non-personalised search, incognito etc.) some of my pages on Google ALL references to authorship have now been completely removed.

Does anyone know when this change occurred? I might be a bit slow this week (or last week) with concentrating on projects.

I know like others that photos went some time back but now there are no author details being displayed. Just the page title and description.

David

Thanks Candyman, yes this is not a question about to prevent Google for not indexing my content, I know this very well. It is more about how quick they have done this with the least amount of effort on our part to inform them.

Plus it is quite an interesting situation you found yourself in, never heard of this before.

Many thanks

David

Hi Samuel,

Thanks for replying but no I'm not asking that, this I know how to do. The question is about whether this could be seen as an example of page indexation where on my part there has been no explicit activity to inform Google of the content's existence and there are no links to it yet Google is still managing to index it. Why bother informing Google vIA some of the activities mentioned earlier when they will just index it anyway you know.

Thanks

David

Depending on the thematics and neutrality of your content that you want to create, I would suggest adding an additional category of .edu and .gov.uk for the UK market. I actively look for and write in .gov.uk sites and this makes up about 5% of my Root Domain link profile. Not sure these days how Google determines the domain link quality of an academic and government sites but pretty sure they are still deemed as being of high quality and trusted.

Granted these types of domains are tricky to get content on but worth trying out.

David

Not quite Hacking but despicable all the same.

See this video clip from the UK investigation programme 'Dispatches' - 'Click farms': how some businesses manipulate social media - Channel 4 Dispatches video trailer. I'm not sure if you can see the programme outside the UK but you should get the general idea from this 'Guardian' posting.

People bent on fraud and shortest route to quick gains will try anything Christopher

http://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2013/aug/02/click-farms-social-media-video

David

Hi there,

I've been doing work in Japan for some time now and although I would probably have my URL's in Japanese I found that if I hagoo sound meter data, correct charset for that language and good links from Japanese domains when the content of my pages are served pretty well. See example here - http://www.instantatlas.com/whatisinstantAtlas_JP.html

I would say that most traffic from the above page actually comes from Yahoo Japan than say Google Japan (it does come but not in the same volume). I have a Chinese equivalent and traffic to this landing page comes from Baidu. I would like to point out that for both pages they will drive Japanese, Chinese and English queries from these countries.

We are about to embark on an overhaul of this page to include easier navigation, structured data etc.

Happy to share outcomes on these change over the coming weeks if it helps.

Best

David

Ah! right no worries Gary, the people I'm thinking of focus on UK and US public health, write for Virgin etc.

Sorry I don't think I can get you a match on this one.

Good luck though, hope you find suitable people.

David

Hi there,

I would definitely be looking at the Moz Keyword Difficulty tool and other tools like SEMRush http://www.semrush.com/ both are great for gaining competitive insight.

Your second question is well if they are competitors then surely you would be wanting to at the very least have a competitive positioning of your online content with them. I have different competitors for instance for different keywords, I have common grouped competitors and niche competitors, they may be domestic, foreign, a specific vertical and so on.

If you were starting out on employing an SEO strategy then your question actually might be construed as a little back to front, as I would be wanting to analyse my own site's keyword phrase conversions to determine which are the most effective, have the highest CTR etc. and then utilising tools such as the ones mentioned to see who am I competing against with my best converting KWs. Plus you would be able to identify any mismatches of who you deem as your natural competitors against ones that you are not aware of from the analysis you carry out on your own site traffic data.

Hope that helps a little.

David

Noticed today that when I search (non-personalised search, incognito etc.) some of my pages on Google ALL references to authorship have now been completely removed.

Does anyone know when this change occurred? I might be a bit slow this week (or last week) with concentrating on projects.

I know like others that photos went some time back but now there are no author details being displayed. Just the page title and description.

David

Many thanks Chanan much appreciated. I've had a look myself to see how my boards are ranking for keywords and phrases and currently they are not ranking in Google images. However I am ranking 10th for a specifc phrase and the phrase needs to reflect the name of the board.  Which is fine and I am now changing the board name to reflect a better keyword phrase and see how this develops over the coming weeks.

So in summary Pinterest is showing promise I think as a tool to employ in your SEO arsenal.

David

No worries Gary.

I have just one thought in mind, maybe have a read of this article by one of our content writers. See what you think, if the author's content is not quite what you are after no worries. - bit of a long shot but good writer (ex journalist).

http://instantatlas.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/calling-denise-from-derby/

Best

David

Listen to Peter he is spot on.

If you are going to try and go down this approach, you will get nowhere and you will also have unhappy clients. Your client needs to really understand the new online search landscape and get thinking of what content can we deliver that will be of real value to our visitors.

As well as GREAT content you should also be building in best SEO practice to your content.  Check out the Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet posted by Danny Dover - http://moz.com/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet-2013-edition.

David

Thanks for the info.

I checked GWMT tools for any related notifications to this but nothing that I can see.

I suppose there has been much talk of late about the actual effectiveness of authorship in SERPs influence and may be the decided to pull it.