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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.

Cheers

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

Hi is it pretty standard for Google to index content that you have not specifically asked them to index i.e. provided them notification of a page's existence.

I have just been alerted by 'Mention' about some new content that they have discovered, the page is on our site yes and may be I should have set it to NO INDEX but the page only went up a couple of days ago and I was making it live so that someone could look at it and see how the page was going to look in its final iteration.  Normally we go through the usual process of notifying Google via GWMT, adding it to our site map.xml file, publishing it via our G+ stream and so on.

Reviewing our Analytics it looks like there has been no traffic to this page yet and I know for a fact there are no links to this page. I am surprised at the speed of the indexation, is it a example of brand mention? Where an actual link is now no longer required?

Cheers

David

Yup Sam got it many thanks for your assistance.

David

Hi there,

I have received email notification that my new inbound links CSV report is ready to export and download. I follow the OSE link but I am redirected straight back to the main page of OSE not the download.

Is there a problem? Are the access problems due to the Moz.com and Research Tools Outage. reported on Moz Health?

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

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

Is their a particular industry/topic/theme based copywriter you are after Gary?

UK based writer?

Not referring to myself, just aware of a couple of good ones I use and have done for a few years.

David

Hi Chenzo,

We noticed some real big increases across about 15 of our target keyword phrases a day or two after the recent algo updated (granted denied by Google). These updates for us we think are due to this update as we've been expecting the rank changes for a long time but much of our efforts could not budge our SERPs positions. Even though all our indicators were showing that we were not where we were supposed to be in relation to our competitors. I would add that these rank changes have affected our US positions, or UK positions (where we are located) have stayed relatively the same.

In reference to Oren's comments for we always expect to see a drop in traffic around the 16th of the December and that I can see is staying true to the nature of our business.

The positions I would add are centred around maybe a cluster of pages that have high PA, they are the ones where I've seen jumps in numbers of +9 as an average, with one in particular on a +20 (now first page) where previously it has stayed roughly on page 2 and 3 (Google SERPs) for most of this year. One has gone from 12 to 2 overnight and is still there today.

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

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

Hi there,

I've looked in Moz Q&A on content related to 'Storify' but if seems there is not much discussion.

I'm working on new client project and the client wants to add a Storify feed to their home page. They are a very big charity in the UK, distribute a ton of content and are perceived as a primary information retrieval site for public health issues. However Storify is not something I have come across regularly and I'm unsure of what the potential impacts are in adding such a feed. I generally steer away from feeds e.g. WP, feedburner etc. on primary websites, I do use them in blogs etc. but usually make sure the content between say a parent site and a blog are not duplicate.

So my question is has anyone used Storify, what is your experience of it, is it an effective platform to share content but not at the expense of your domain's quality, value and authority.

Would be interested to know of anyones experience of this service.

Thanks in advance.

David