Friday, November 22, 2013

What is Google Data Highlighter?

I found that google webmaster tools have a new google data highlighter.

Location is webmaster tools > Search Appearance > Data Highlighter

When I see the introduction, it says it is good for structured data such as review or event listings.
It is an alternative to webmaster markup.

Just Start Highlighting


There will be a popup to select type. In this case, Articles and Tag this page and others like it. Please also fill the url (A specific page is better. For google blogsopt just select tag just this page because a page set doesnot work in blogspot but my magento shop works well.).
Then, press OK. (Enter url agian if it is not pressed)


It is easier than structured data markup helper although both looks similar.
Just designate area. Then, you will see some button showing title, author, date published, etc.



For example, after highlighting title (Make meta ... structured data markedup helper ...snippet), select Title.
Title will be automatically inserted in My Data Items.


Just repeat it to fill rest of data items. Then press Done.
Create a page set will pop up showing similar strudtured pages and just press Create page set at bottom


It is very easy when the structure is very good such as magento. You can do similar pages conveniently.
For some reason, google blog can do each page by page but my magento shop works well.

After creating page set, just publish.


It is good for magento to complement structured data markup.
Thank you.
By Shop Korea

Make meta microdata by google structured data markedup helper and google plus snippet

I have a shopping mall by magento (shop.isdream.net) and tried to make a structured data for it.
However, it was very hard to do it and I decided to find an alternative way.

There was a meta microdata that I could do it very easily.

You need to know three following google's tool that you can search easily.

or just go to google webmaster tool and click other resources. You will see
-Structured data testing tool in google webmaster tool
-Structured data markup helper

Then, you can refer to Google+ snippet tool (https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/)
Originally, Google+snippet tool is for showing some good information when you share something by google plus but you can also use it for making meta microdata very easily.
All you have to do is just paste some code to header of your website html.

So, if you want to get the meta microdata just select product, title and image url as follows. Then, you will get html code there.


Then, for some other information such as price, brand, etc, just go to structured data markup helper.
Just select what you want and url then start tagging.


I will select the product and my url as follows:


Then, you will see the following page


When you click some image or letter, list for each property will show up as follows




When you click image, the image will be inserted.



For the rest of them, you can just add missing tag :





Then, save and create html
You will see html source microdata markup



You see yellow line? Just copy them  in txt file to make meta microdata.
The information that you added manually is shown as meta data.



So, you can make some meta microdata rich snippet
<!-- Microdata markup added by Google Structured Data Markup Helper. -->
<div itemscope itemtype="...>
<meta itemprop="name" content=...>
</div>

If you have some meta microdata missing such as title, image, description, just refer to google plus snippet tool that is very easy.
By the way google plus snippet starts with <html.. and structured data markup helper uses <div> tag.
You can also test <html tag.

It is very easy to make meta microdata by using Google Structured data markup helper and Google plus snippet tool.

You just put the complete tag in header of your page.
After finishing, you can test it in Structured data testing tool in google webmaster tool

That is all.

Thank you.
written by Shop Korea.

How to make sitemap for magento

In SEO (search engine optimization), google webmaster tool is one of a good free one to use
because google is no.1 in the internet search engine.

One of the basic step to use google webmaster tool is to register sitemap there.

To register sitemap of shopping mall made by magento, you have to make a sitemap in magento.
Magento has its own sitemap tool in its own.

Just go to dashboard, go to catalog and click google sitemap.


Then, you will see google sitemap tool. just click "add sitemap" in the upper right corner.



Then, you will see filename, path and storeview.

filename: sitempa.xml
path: /
store view: select one that you want.

It is done.

If you already made sitemap, you can just click "generate" in the google sitemap menu of your magento.



Then, go to google webmaster tools ->crawl->sitemap and register your sitemap.
Thank you.
By Gold soap man