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Rich Snippets, Authorship & Author RankHosted by: Martin Reed & Dan PetrovicExpert Panel: AJ Kohn, Mark Traphagen & Bill Slawski

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Rich Snippet Examples

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User Submitted Screenshot

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Mark Up Your Data

● Microdata

● Microformats

● RDFa

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What Can You Mark Up?● Reviews● People● Products● Businesses and organizations● Recipes● Events● Music

● Post Office● Dentist● Bowling Alley

schema.org

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Example: Events

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http://www.seomoz.org/top500

Example: Table

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Rich Snippets Testing Toolhttp://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

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Structured Data: Google Webmaster Tools

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Structured Data: Google Webmaster Tools

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Review SpamBasic Pattern of Fake Reviews

Search engines can now apply GSRank model to discover fake reviews and normalise their aggregate ratings for products, places and various other features.

1. Same product reviewed by the common group.2. High rating by group members.3. Narrow time window within all rated products.4. Group reviewed the same set of products.5. Quick to rate. Usually first or among first to review.

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Authorship Snippets

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Authorship Verification Process1. Create your Google+ Profile

2. Verify Authorshipa. Link to Profileb. Email

3. Create Some Content!

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Verification: Link to Profile

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Verification: Email

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Author Stats: Various Web Properties

Tip: Get Traffic Data Unavailable in Log Files Dejan SEO, 2012

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Author Stats: Google Webmaster Toolshttps://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/labs-author-stats-1

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Authorship: Traffic Impact

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Compared to Previous Period Unique Visitors: +29.48%

8 Oct 2011

● Affected Blog Content● Other Campaigns Skewing Data● GWT Data Expired

SEO Gadget: 5%https://seogadget.co.uk/review-snippet-over-saturation-in-google-search-results/

CTR Modelling Problems: Keyword Potential Calculator (No Metrics & Rich Snippet Data)

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Question For AudienceWhat happened to SEOMoz authorship?

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DiscussionAuthorRank.

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● What is AuthorRank?○ Authorship ≠ AuthorRank*

● AuthorRank + PageRank○ Query dependent or not?

● Niche Topic Authority

● Social Connection? ○ Implicit / Explicit Author Connection○ Topical Relevance

● How does it fit in Google's search quality algorithm?○ Social Integration○ Search (Classic Algorithm, Panda)○ News Also?○ Connection to Knowledge Graph

DiscussionAuthorRank.

AuthorRank?

Dejan SEO, 2012*www.virante.org/blog/2012/08/30/what-is-the-difference-between-google-authorship-and-author-rank/

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DiscussionAuthorRank.

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AuthorRank?

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DiscussionAuthorRank.

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Are we there yet? When?

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Research Papers Referencing Author RankPageRank for ranking authors in co-citation networksThis paper studies how varied damping factors in the PageRank algorithm influence the ranking of authors and proposes weighted PageRank algorithms. http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/caverlee/pubs/ding09pagerank.pdf

AuthorRank: Ranking Improvement for the WebPreliminary results of ranking experiments carried out on a dataset that contains metadata descriptions of more than 600.000 publications.http://sw.deri.org/2005/07/peoplerank/doc/ISWC-Socialnetwork.pdf

Discovering author impact: A PageRank perspectiveAn alternative perspective for measuring author impact by applying PageRank algorithm to a coauthorship network.http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1012/1012.4870.pdf

PageRank, PageRank and more PageRank...Dejan SEO, 2012

DiscussionAuthorRank.

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Patents Referencing Author RankMethod and apparatus for rating user generated content in search resultshttp://www.google.com/patents/US20110196860http://www.google.com/patents?id=96frAQAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Text search quality by exploiting organizational informationhttp://www.google.com/patents/US20060129538http://www.google.com/patents?id=zcecAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Computer method and system for publishing content on a global computer networkhttp://www.google.com/patents/US20070118802http://www.google.com/patents?id=IneiAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Methods, systems and computer program products for data gathering in a Digital and Hard Copy Document Environmenthttp://www.google.com/patents/US7437023http://www.google.com/patents?id=5UWvAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Bill Slawski1. http://www.seobythesea.com/2009/11/how-search-engines-may-rank-user-generated-content/2. http://www.seobythesea.com/2011/08/after-authorship-markup-will-google-give-us-author-badges-too/3. http://www.seobythesea.com/2012/05/microsoft-on-ranking-authors/4. http://www.seobythesea.com/2011/11/trusted-by-google/5. http://www.seobythesea.com/2011/11/agent-rank-or-google-plus-as-an-identity-service-or-digital-signature/6. http://www.seobythesea.com/2012/04/googles-comment-patents-web-rankings-influenced-by-commentors-reputations/7. http://www.seobythesea.com/2012/05/social-circles-content-sharing-visibility-google-plus/8. http://www.seobythesea.com/2011/09/google-ibm-patents-august/9. http://www.seobythesea.com/2011/07/how-google-might-rank-user-generated-web-content-in-google-and-other-social-networks/

10. https://plus.google.com/u/0/108421660453447189832/posts/W5csLBwyYsa

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Next week's hangout:Your pick the topic!

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Read: www.blindfiveyearold.com/author-rank