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How To Markup Business Mergers With Structured Data

Business mergers, also known as A&M (aquisitions and mergers) are one of the hardest things to get right using structured data and schema markup. If your company has acquired other companies, it can get very complicated really quickly. When companies...
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The Ultimate Guide to Google Rich Results & SERP Features

Since Google introduced featured snippets back in 2014 (was it that long ago?!), Rich Results have been the goal of all SEO's. These Rich Results and SERP features have changed over the years, with Google becoming more and more visual...
The Structured Data Guide for Beginners
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Ditch the Schema Struggle: New Book “The Structured Data Guide for Beginners” Demystifies Structured Data for SEO Success

After a year and a half in the making, The Structured Data Guide for Beginners book is now available to buy! A new SEO resource has arrived to empower website owners, SEO specialists, and developers to master the often-intimidating world...
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Tracking Knowledge Graph kgmids With Google Sheets

TLDR; You can track kgmids from Google's Knowledge Graph with a handy Google Sheets script, allowing you to see the changes in the entities every day.  Google's Knowledge Graph has ever-changing entities, and it recently underwent a massive change, deleting...
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How To Plan Your Structured Data – Schema Strategy

Before you start even thinking about writing your own structured data, you need to plan out your strategy for the whole website. This may seem like a boring and pointless task, however it will really help you later on, as...
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How To Find Your Google CID

TLDR; You need a Google CID to insert into your structured data, which you can find with the Pleper tool. Then you need to put the CID into this property - hasMap. If you're doing local SEO, then one of...
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Choosing Your LocalBusiness Type

TLDR; You need to decide right at the beginning of writing structured data for your website what type of LocalBusiness or Organization you are. You need to use the most specific and relevant one to your business for optimal results. ...
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Finding Your Latitude and Longitude

TLDR; Your latitude and longitude is really important for local SEO, and coupled with your CID via hasMap, gives Google your exact business location.  If you're writing LocalBusiness structured data, it's a good idea to add your latitude and longitude,...
Converting structured data
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Converting Structured Data Examples

TLDR; You can convert between Microdata, RDFa and JSON-LD structured data in order to be able to use different examples, e.g. on Schema.org.  It can be difficult to find structured data examples on the internet, especially when searching forums for...
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Local SEO & Structured Data

TLDR; Structured data can really help local SEO efforts by giving search engines and AI overviews more information about your business, products and services and their relationships between one another.  If you’ve got a local website and a Google My...

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