What is Reddit's opinion of
Google Search Console?
From 3.5 billion Reddit comments
14 reviews of this app found across Reddit:
Google analytics will give some data, but really Webmaster Tools or 'Search Console' is your best bet as it also gives breakdown of impressions, CTR and page rankings.
>...this is also a good reminder -- as they note in the Google blog post -- that if you run a website, you should absolutely sign up to use Google's Webmaster tools, which will quickly inform you when one of your URLs are targeted by such a takedown, allowing you to easily file a counternotice.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
If you put your domain into that tool, then you will get a fail / pass and specifically why.
Some format visually well on certain phones, but Google might misread how it renders. All that really matters is how Google thinks it is, not how it actually is. ;-)
My understanding is that they have had a very soft skew for this already, but now are far more forcefully removing / strongly demoting any which do not render well.
Add more meta data - for search engines and for users.
Use Google's structured data testing tool to check that your markup is working when you do this.
I use all their different flavors of microdata on my site, local-nursing-homes.com. Address, geo, ratings/reviews, and breadcrumbs. In my experience, Google tends to be very slow/conservative in adding it to your listing in search results.
When I added rating's, it took a good 6 months before it showed up, but when it did, my traffic basically doubled over night.
I think there are two options for you. The first one is trying to search for "site:yourdomain.com" on Google. If you find your site, you're indexed (and then maybe they just lowered your site's rank). Also, I'm almost sure that Google Search Console has a messaging section that shows you everything wrong with your site.
Edit: fixed link
It's not quite right but it's on the right lines.. Get the code bang on using the website data mark up tool helper that Google has: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
Just highlight name, address, number etc and it'll give you the code to put into the website including any needed styles so it looks exactly the same.
Align your g+ and citations with that and you're sorted 😁
Google offer some handy tools for free
Webmaster Tools Get Google's view of your site and diagnose problems See how Google crawls and indexes your site and learn about specific problems we're having accessing it. It will offer you tips on what to change etc
Google Analytics Free reporting tool it has a pretty awesome interface and gives good insights into the traffic coming to your website.
META Information give each page it own unique title and description, don't focus too much on the keywords tags.
I think you need the Rich Snippets for events, I'm assuming they are the same, might be wrong though!
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/164506?hl=en
You should also give a read to the schema page for movies, google should read and use these snippets too!
Remember to use this tool to see if google is reading the snippets or not:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?hl=es
And finally. Google might or might not show the snippets. It's under their discretion to do so. They might simply ignore them and move on. It happens quite often!
Just use both, make sure you sign up to Google.com/webmasters and monitor for errors/warnings
There is a structured date tool which allows you to test all your Schema tags.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
If there are errors it will often just not index ALL the new content. So fix issues as soon as you can. Then resubmit your sitemap.
a.) Which CMS are you using?
b.) Keep in mind that a lot of rich snippet code will be embedded into a page (say, for instance, a page on your site for each review) and you'd have to either search for it (eg through Google) or use one of a few tools to get a preview.
These may help:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/
Edit: So for clarification a good starting place would be to make a page for each review and then add the code after the review content has already been written. I'm not sure if you're using a plugin or extension, etc.
WAI-ARIA landmarks let you show what's the banner, what's the nav and what's the main content (and a few others). If you try using a screen reader, this makes it a lot easier to get around, without having to listen to the header and nav each time. It's just a case of adding the role attribute to 3 things.
I'm wrong about the gzip, my automated test must be failing for some reason.
Microdata seems to have Google's backing, so I'd recommend adding it where it's trivial to do so. Contact details particular make sense to me. You probably know about Google's Rich Snippet Testing tool to validate them: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
My mistake, I haven't automated the rel author stuff, so quickly skimmed through and didn't catch it.
At some point I'll release my testing tool, once I've gotten rid of the bugs!
RDF is know by many names (Rich Snippets, Microdata, etc). Google and Yahoo are specifically using it in search results but many sites do not have it implemented. When you google for say a restaurant and the search result 'snippet' pulls in things like Reviews, maps, similar restaurants, etc is an example of RDF. That extra meta data is dynamically generated.
Here's a link to Google's page about it
Another Link *Click on the tags under the search field to get some examples.
That image looks like its referencing/referring to google analytics. Google Analytics is used by Google Webmaster Tools to help give webmasters more information on their visitors.
It can tell you how many pages you read, how long you stay on the website, your location (based on IP address), browser & OS, visit source (if you came from Google, another site, etc), and more. Its a tool webmasters can use to help build more traffic, and where they need to beef up their site.
That being said, you can block it (google analytics) without affecting Reddit (or other websites). Googleapis, on the other hand, may be needed to be left open.
However, in the comment I referenced, the first page you load (where it requires googleapis), it will send along the URL you are loading (which, as the comment states, would most likely be reddit.com in this case).