July 2, 2012

Paid Content Sites to Benefit from New Web Markup Created by Google, Bing & Yahoo

In case you missed it (I did!), Google, Bing and Yahoo are actually collaborating. The Search Engine Big 3 have endorsed Schema.org, a collection of html tags that webmasters can use to index their sites in new ways, much like the sitemap concept, a previous collaboration between the companies. The code will allow publishers to describe their content better, using meta-categories like: Creative works: CreativeWork, Book, Movie, MusicRecording, Recipe, TVSeries … AudioObject, ImageObject, VideoObject for embedded non-text objects Event Organization Person Place,…

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Twitter Cuts Off Service to LinkedIn, Will It Affect Your Site Traffic?

This just in: Twitter has cut off tweets on its site from LinkedIn, ending the two year partnership between the two social networking sites, reports CBSNews.com. What does this mean exactly? For users, if you’ve synced your LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, posts on LinkedIn will still be cross-posted on Twitter. However, your tweets on Twitter will no longer be published on LinkedIn. For subscription and membership sites, this means that you may see lower ratios of site…

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