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Schema: The Future of Affiliate Marketing (Affiliate Summit)
Publisher: Affiliate Summit •
Duration: 19:59 •
Published: February 17, 2015
Jonathan Goodman, President of Halyard Consulting, presents at Affiliate Summit on the power of schema markup, why it matters for affiliates, and how structured data shapes search rankings and online visibility.
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0:00 foreign 0:24 this is a 18-minute session and I have 0:28 an ask the experts right immediately 0:31 afterwards so this is a topic that's 0:35 equal in our industry I guess to brain 0:38 surgery so there's probably going to be 0:40 tons of questions but please come to the 0:43 ask the experts and we'll do all that 0:45 because there's a lot of crunching of 0:46 numbers and and time that we have to 0:49 discuss this it's going to be kind of 0:51 tight 0:52 um Who am I 0:53 there is a warning this presentation 0:56 contains code and the discussion of code 0:58 there is a further warning that the code 1:02 is completely scaled down uh just for 1:05 comprehension 1:07 so I'm going to be talking about the 1:09 following things who am I what is schema 1:12 how it affects search results why should 1:15 Affiliates care and where are great 1:18 resources 1:19 so who am I I'm Jonathan Edward Goodman 1:22 I'm the president of halyard Consulting 1:24 we're located in Jersey City New Jersey 1:26 the company was established in 1:29 2007. our focus is primarily small to 1:32 medium-sized businesses in ranging from 1:35 service Industries financials lawyers 1:38 the whole range like that we are 1:40 WordPress exclusive uh that and we are 1:44 kind of getting into 1:46 um iPhone apps and things like that but 1:48 we are primarily WordPress exclusive 1:51 it's a full range of internet marketing 1:54 services including optimization 1:56 development content public relations 1:59 advertising and I've written a book 2:01 called The World of internet marketing 2:03 and I also have a weekly podcast on 2:05 Fridays called the world of internet 2:07 marketing as well which you can find on 2:09 spreaker.com or on halyardconsulting.com 2:14 what is schema in one sentence What is Schema 2:18 schema is search based unintended 2:22 meaning 2:25 what you see 2:29 what the engine say 2:32 there's a differentiation between apple 2:35 the company and apple the product 2:38 when you type in apple 2:41 what do you mean 2:43 what happens is that Google has to 2:46 understand based on your previous 2:48 searches based on your personal intent 2:52 what you're actually searching for 2:57 now let's break this code down 3:00 item scope and item type 3:03 is saying 3:05 that we're going to look for this 3:07 referencing code at schema.org 3:11 the name is Apple for both 3:15 the description 3:17 for Apple the company is that Apple Inc 3:20 formerly Apple computer Inc is an 3:23 American multinational corporation 3:25 headquartered in Cupertino California 3:29 while the Apple description 3:33 is that the apple is the promise fruit 3:35 of the apple tree species malleus 3:38 domestica in the Rose family 3:42 schema.org person is Steve Jobs 3:46 color is red for the Apple 3:51 so all already 3:54 were trying to differentiate something 3:58 that really on a daily basis the 4:00 computers these search engines can't 4:02 really understand 4:05 how does it affect the search results 4:09 well here 4:11 is the video that I did with Todd 4:15 affiliate Summit East 2013 speaker 4:19 preview Jonathan Goodman 4:22 that in the item prop so we have item 4:25 prop is the video this is a video 4:29 the item type is coming from schema.org 4:31 and it's going to reference all the data 4:33 that would be coming in from video 4:36 the name is affiliate Summit East 2013 4:40 speaker preview Jonathan Goodman 4:43 duration 4:45 is 4:47 t6m51s so it's 6 minutes 51 seconds Metadata 4:53 the thumbnail that image is defined as 4:57 Jonathan Goodman interview thumb 5:00 the description 5:02 being pulled just like we would in all 5:04 metadata in this video interview from 5:07 our speaker preview series we introduce 5:09 Jonathan Goodman CEO of halyard 5:12 Consulting 5:16 now 5:17 I did not read 5:20 50 Shades of Gray 5:21 but we're going to break that down as a 5:24 book 5:25 so again we're pulling from schema.org 5:29 in the book section 5:31 so we've pulled from the company we've 5:34 pulled from product we've pulled from 5:37 video 5:38 and now we're going to look at book 5:42 the item name 5:44 is 50 Shades of Gray 5:47 the description is pulled in as 50 5:49 Shades of Gray and I won't read that 5:51 whole thing 5:52 the author is a person so to Define that 5:56 E.L James 5:58 is a person 6:00 differentiated and further descripts it 6:03 as 6:05 related to the book 6:09 and what was the date that it published 6:11 June 20th 2011 and you see all of this 6:16 is now what we used to have is data that 6:20 would be out there and not defined as we 6:23 get better at defining each individual 6:25 piece of data 6:27 Google and the search engines are able 6:29 to provide a better analysis when you're 6:33 doing intended search 6:38 here's an event a business event 6:41 the URL is affiliatesummit.com 6:44 13e conference the name is affiliate 6:48 Summit East 6:49 2013. the start date is 8 18 2013 at 12 6:55 pm 6:56 the location 6:58 schema.org postal address 7:01 111 7:04 1101 Arch Street Philadelphia PA 7:08 19107. now is that actually the correct 7:11 address because aren't we on Market 7:13 Street and Broad so that could have been 7:17 better defined right 7:20 why should Affiliates care this is the 7:22 most important part of the presentation Ranking 7:25 just because this is for Matt cutts who 7:28 handles you know the head of the web 7:30 spam team 7:31 just because you implement schema.org 7:34 doesn't mean that you should necessarily 7:37 rank higher I'm not going to take it off 7:39 the table it's always that slide of the 7:42 Google side but just because somebody 7:45 implements schema.org markup that 7:48 doesn't mean that they're necessarily an 7:50 automatically better site although it 7:53 could be a good idea to Mark up things 7:56 in a rich structure just because then 7:59 different people can slice and dice and 8:02 find your site more easily if they are 8:05 doing more digging 8:07 what do I say 8:09 I say a well-structured site rich in 8:12 detail and capable of correctly offering 8:15 more extensive data is more likely to 8:19 gain ranking within the search results 8:21 it makes sense Google Webmaster Tools 8:25 where are great resources 8:30 on the Google webmaster tools we have 8:33 structured data testing tool which tests 8:36 authorship test authorship data email 8:39 verification Rel author markup publisher 8:43 markup extracted structured data and 8:47 rdfa nodes and you can see 8:51 it might be a little bit difficult to 8:52 see in this slide but we put in a URL 8:56 and that URL pulls in the data as it 9:00 would be displayed in the search engines 9:03 there's the preview it has my image in 9:05 it it has my information and the 9:09 description 9:10 and what the URL is as we've defined it 9:13 and what the title is so from the 9:17 authorship testing result you can see 9:19 that in addition to that data being 9:21 shown you also have a Google Plus 9:24 profile which is My URL within Google 9:27 Plus and my name 9:30 so there is direct correlation and 9:33 that's why it's pulling in that image of 9:35 me 9:36 it's direct correlation because it 9:38 understands that how your Consulting is 9:40 owned by me 9:41 and that the author of that article is 9:44 me and I am that Google Plus personality Structured Data Markup Helper 9:50 you have structured data markup helper 9:53 which is you're able to go into the 9:56 webmaster tools and you're able to say 9:58 to Google I want you to look at this 10:00 entire website it goes through and it's 10:03 going to show you about 10 pages and as 10:06 you're going through each page you're 10:09 going to be able you're going to be 10:10 asked to Define what is Google looking 10:13 at at different points are they is this 10:17 considered a title is this where the 10:20 author's name generally comes in is that 10:22 author named Jonathan Goodman well if it 10:25 is then I'm going to go through the rest 10:27 of the website and look for all 10:29 instances within that area of the code 10:31 that says Jonathan Goodman and I will 10:34 know that all of these Pages relate to 10:36 that specific author it does images it 10:39 does content it does links it does 10:41 events it does videos it goes through 10:44 and the more that you're willing to sit 10:46 there and perfect it the better your 10:49 website's going to be if your website 10:51 has a hundred Pages it probably will be 10:54 able to figure it out within 10 pages if 10:56 your if your website has tens of 10:59 thousands of pages and it's e-commerce 11:01 and blog and calendar and all these 11:04 variables it's going to take a while 11:06 you're going to have to sit there and go 11:07 through it the advantages that you're 11:10 going to be able to have clear data that 11:13 is going to be provided when people do 11:15 intended searches which is rarely where 11:18 everything is going Schema Creator 11:20 schema Creator which is schema Dash 11:23 creator.org is a good starting point 11:27 uh how many developers are in the room 11:32 I was two more than I was expecting I 11:35 really didn't think that anyone really 11:37 is a developer in this group so schema 11:40 Creator is a perfect way for you to kind 11:43 of get around that 11:45 that issue of having to write up all 11:47 this Market content 11:50 and then in addition to schema Creator 11:53 if you're running how many people are 11:54 running WordPress 11:56 okay great so WordPress uh one of the 11:59 good plugins is yoast 12:01 um that's a lot of metadata stuff but it 12:04 also has the ability to do uh Facebook 12:06 which is 12:08 um the open face Facebook information 12:12 that will translate into Google schema 12:16 and that's uh 12:18 you know that's really the best way if 12:21 you're not writing the code yourself and 12:23 you're not able to kind of go into 12:25 webmaster tools and do it this way 12:28 that's a that's a great tool for you to 12:30 do on a on every day 12:33 um I oh okay so we have like three 12:36 minutes 12:38 we did pull the microphone away 12:41 I have six minutes 12:43 well I have to run 12:45 are there any questions 12:48 I've stunned everybody into silence Schema Analysis 12:54 uh I could go into more detail so if we 12:56 have six minutes I can kind of go back 12:58 and really I ran through that pretty 12:59 quick so 13:02 let's go through and really talk about 13:05 what what is happening here in fact 13:10 let's see now I'm not gonna I'm not 13:12 gonna try to pull up schema.org but 13:16 let's just analyze this from intended 13:19 search if you were looking at affiliate 13:21 Summit East and you did a search and you 13:24 said videos for affiliate Summit 13:28 a descriptor like this with the code as 13:32 it is is going to have better intended 13:35 search results that's going to give it a 13:38 higher ranking I mean Google says it's 13:40 not it is simply because it better 13:42 understands and defines 13:45 what is the information within it 13:51 when you're talking about any type of 13:53 book 13:55 you then have the ability there's a 13:57 movie coming out right so at some point 14:00 that movie will get a descriptive on the 14:03 video it'll be an entertainment from the 14:05 schema.org and then the the two will 14:09 kind of merge there'll be a 14:11 differentiator between book 14:13 person the author and then the movie and 14:17 then those actors so the actors in those 14:20 movies are then able to be brought into 14:23 that that pool of data for that one 14:28 topic 14:33 when we're talking about events if 14:35 anybody has events on their website 14:38 you can get a you can wind up getting 14:42 better ranking because what's going to 14:44 eventually happen is in the search 14:45 engines you're starting to see this if 14:48 you put like Leonardo da Vinci or 14:50 anybody like you know a significant uh 14:53 artist or significant famous individual 14:55 they're kind of going to separate it 14:57 they're going to split the screen you're 14:59 going to have results links on the left 15:02 side and then on the right side you're 15:04 going to actually have data provided for 15:06 you this is very similar if you were 15:08 doing an event so for affiliate Summit 15:10 East if you searched on that you could 15:13 probably have and I just haven't done it 15:15 recently but I would I would likely 15:17 expect that on the right hand side 15:19 you've got a couple of obviously 15:22 affiliatesummit.com then you've got a 15:24 couple of other articles that are coming 15:26 in you've got the videos that are being 15:28 presented images if any of those are 15:30 marked up for the um for the right terms 15:34 if they're saying affiliate Summit 15:36 images and then on the right hand side 15:38 right you probably have the map you have 15:42 the event as it's put there and you know 15:46 right now it's kind of iffy you can go 15:49 in and you can put it in and sometimes 15:51 it'll be there for Leonardo da Vinci but 15:54 it might not be there for Pablo Picasso 15:56 so it it's it they're working on kind of 15:59 figuring it out and obviously in the 16:01 first page there's you know there's 16:03 there's real estate that's being taken 16:05 up by a lot of different things but at 16:08 the end of the day Google is trying to 16:10 provide you with better results and get 16:14 you to the point where you're actually 16:16 done searching for your information and 16:19 not even necessarily clicking through to 16:22 another page if you needed to find out 16:24 when Pablo Picasso died and you typed in 16:27 Pablo Picasso and it showed you on the 16:29 right hand side that's that's the end of 16:31 your results that's the end of your 16:33 search 16:38 okay pretty good 16:41 no questions oh question in the back 16:48 so the question is co-sitation and 16:51 co-reference 16:53 co-sitation 16:55 from like like if I'm looking up a New 16:59 York Times article and then there's a 17:02 reference to 17:04 to the to the person that were that that 17:06 the article is about 17:16 not sure I understand the question 17:20 I don't I don't totally hear the 17:22 question that's the first part 17:24 but just say it again 17:29 yep 17:33 today 17:35 is it playing into the rankings for this 17:37 for schema today 17:40 oh okay is co-reference and Cosi 17:44 yeah well I don't know the answer to 17:46 that 17:47 yeah 17:49 okay 18:01 I well I think that what Google 18:03 eventually wants to get to is 18:07 the intended users search was is being 18:10 searched the results are for the search 18:13 so is it 18:16 is it in you know is it say that say the 18:19 question again because you're all the 18:21 way in the back 18:41 right so you're asking is a is a website 18:44 that has schema marked up in it is it 18:47 getting better rankings than a website 18:49 that is not marked up with schema 18:59 so your 19:01 you're under the assumption that the 19:04 rankings are based on the previous 19:07 click-through rates of 19:09 of a website 19:16 broadly so broadly broadly speaking 19:20 you know there's there's two there's two 19:23 thoughts here 19:24 Matt cutts would say that it doesn't 19:27 have an immediate impact and on the 19:30 other side of that I would say that a 19:33 website that is fully marked up with 19:37 content with visitor you you know data 19:41 is going to have a easier time ranking 19:46 than a site that does not 19:48 excellent thank you so much I'll be at 19:51 the experts the ask the experts right 19:54 now