Thursday, June 6, 2013

Data Highlighter Tool

Data highlighter is one of the webmaster tools which make easy for webmasters to markup their pages with structured data. This is a point and click tool which enables to tag the data of your site and it doesn't involve in coding part. Markup data counts name, date, location, image, URL and category. With these markups, the data of your site can be high-lightened and can be indexed easily by Google.

By the help of this tool you can make your site to get crawled by bots in very les time in such a way that it is a point and click tool, you can point and click on one page then Google will make markup pages for your site. If at all you need to markup for more pages then you can use this tool for one page and it instantly markup for entire pages. Upon doing this, these markup pages can be easily identified by search engines and traffic rate can also be increased.

Here are the few steps for how to use the 'Data Highlighter Tool' with Google Webmaster Tools:

1. Login with Google webmaster account and go for the 'Optimization' which is on left menu. Then select the 'Data Highlighter'.

2. Upon selecting this tool, you will notice information regarding tagging and also to click the 'Start Highlighting'.



3. After clicking on the start highlighting, you can get the options for tagging and it’s your choice to highlight the page. Options are like,
I. Tag the page and others to like it
II. Tag only this page

4. Further step is to select the URL of one page. If you select for second option of tagging then select the first page URL of set of pages. If you prefer for first option of tagging then click ‘OK’. Then the page will display which you have selected the URL of a page.

5. Highlight the structure data which you want to highlight and after that right click on the highlighted data.

6. Then go for 'Next' button which is on top right of the page.

7. After that you can get the information, once go through it and proceed further if everything seems correct.

8. Then select 'publish' button which is at top right of the screen.
Once done with above process, Google takes time to list your highlighted markup structure data. Data highlighter mainly extracts the data like events, dates, movies, etc in set of pages or in one page which is a rich snippet and contributes more click through rates (CTR).

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