It has been a while since I upload all my webpages. Google in fact has indexed them too and my website has started appearing in the Google search results. But still Webmaster tools shows that the data on my site is unstructured. How can I rectify this? I had tested all my web pages with the rich snippets tools provided by Google and the test was successful because Google correctly showed me the extracted data.
The structured data numbers that are reported in Webmaster Tools are rarely correct. In fact, sometimes the numbers are way, way off. So as long as your page contains structured data markup in the code and as long as Google's testing tool is picking it up, you're fine. No need to be overly concerned about it.
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All of a sudden Google started to say my application is a virus. Does anyone know the best way to reach out to them and to have a "closer" look? Microsoft has a SmartScreen submission page where you can upload your application and ask them to review it, and it works great & fast...
Every single antivrus other than Google's Cyren says my application is safe, including: AVG, ESET-NOD32, Mailware Bytes, McAfee, Symantec, Webroot, BitDefender, and etc... (I just listed the "famous" ones)
Cyren currently does have a way to submit such samples. They accept submissions via E-mail (with zipped and password-protected attachment), and via FTP.
For details, please see: https://www.cyren.com/support/reporting-av-misclassifications
Please note that Cyren is not owned by Google, and VirusTotal is in fact listing it as a separate positive result. I was unable to find what Google product is used. My best guess would be Google's SafeBrowsing.
Has anyone experienced one day that rich snippets test passes with no errors right after saving the product in admin panel in Magento 2.3 and then test fails after some minuttes? Trying to find the solution (or rather the reason for unexpected behaviour...) on G and everywhere else but with no luck. Anybody?
In most cases the price tag disappears from tag list under the second test.
I have absolutely no idea what's going on here. I can see there is no external module that handles rich snippets in admin.
Read more from General structured data guidelines of Google:
Important: Google does not guarantee that your structured data will
show up in search results, even if your page is marked up correctly
according to the Rich Results Test. Here are some common reasons why:
Using structured data enables a feature to be present, it does not
guarantee that it will be present. The Google algorithm tailors search
results to create what it thinks is the best search experience for a
user, depending on many variables, including search history, location,
and device type. In some cases it may determine that one feature is
more appropriate than another, or even that a plain blue link is best.
The structured data is not representative of the main content of the
page, or is potentially misleading.
The structured data is incorrect
in a way that the Rich Results Test was not able to catch.
The content
referred to by the structured data is hidden from the user.
The page
does not meet the guidelines for structured data described here, the
type-specific guidelines, or the general webmaster guidelines.
The last item on the list means that Google can view your structured data for rich results in SERP while following all of their SEO rules and their content policies.
I found that some pages of my site is not being crawled in google webmaster tool from last 30 days. but some gets cowling in 2-3 days every time. is this normal?
And how often google updates Structure data errors in webmaster tool?
Thank you...
That is normal, some aspects can be quick but structured data can take a while.
Also to note, if the code is still broken then it's never going to update.
Have you tested it on Google's structured data testing tool?
I would like to fetch some data from Google Scholar automatically via a matlab script. I am mostly interested in data like Google Scholar's Bibtex entries and the forward citation feature. However, it seems that there is no API for Google Scholar, is there a way to automatically fetch bibliographic data from Google Scholar using Matlab? Are there some tools or code already available for this?
A word of caution I found while working further on this project.
There is a reason why Google Scholar does not have an API. Using bots to collect from Google Scholar is against the EULA. The basic idea is that any program that tries to interface with Google Scholar cannot do so in a qualitatively different way than an end user. In other words, you can automatically fetch large amounts of data. Although the script in #JustinPeel's answer do not necessarily violate the terms, putting it in a massive loop, would.
Some specific points from this EULA:
You shall not, and shall not allow any third party to: ...
(i) directly or indirectly generate queries, or impressions of or clicks on Results, through any automated, deceptive, fraudulent or other invalid means (including, but not limited to, click spam, robots, macro programs, and Internet agents);
...
(l) "crawl", "spider", index or in any non-transitory manner store or cache information obtained from the Service (including, but not limited to, Results, or any part, copy or derivative thereof);
If you look at the Google Scholar robots.txt then you can also see that no bots of any kind are allowed.
I have heard from some colleagues that you will get in trouble if you try to circumvent this policy, which can result in your lab losing access to Google Scholar.
If you really want to use Matlab for this (which I don't really advise), then you can look at some various web scraping examples and there is this code that actually already gets some info from Google Scholar. Basically, just good 'matlab web scraping' and off you go.
I personally would recommend using Python for this because Python is better for general programming IMHO. For instance, this guy has already done a similar thing to what you want with Python. However, if you know Matlab and don't have any interest/time for Python then follow the links in the first paragraph.
I have a web site I'm building and the client wants to have features from vBulletin (blog, forums) integrated into the site. Its not enough to simply add the sites skin to vBulletin. Is there a way to do this?
I would expect there to be documentation on how, if it is possible, to do such a thing but haven't been able to find anything.
I'd rather not connect and query the vBulletin database directly.
There is no proper API for this yet, so you'd either have to rely on things like RSS, or query the database directly. RSS won't get you old data, nor any forum structures, etc. just basics of new data.
After much research (see: cursing) I've found that external.php and blog_external.php do what I want though not quite as elegantly as I would like.
So if you want to incorporate forum threads into your web page then external.php is what you need. It appears to be a bit more customizable in that you can have it output in JavaScript, XML, RSS, and RSS Enclosure (podcasting).
If you want to incorporate blog posts you appear to be limited to RSS only. Like I said, less than ideal but at least its something.
There is more information here: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/vboptions_group_external