Curious case of WordPress Recipe plugins and Google Spammy Structured Markup

Google has recently detected a structured markup on some pages that may be violating the guidelines of structured guidelines. Google further explain that incorrect information always lower the quality of search results for users and due to this, rich snippets will not appear in Google search results for pages with incorrect Structured markup. 

Google mentioned one website name pinoyrecipe.net that face the music of manual spam action. Google suggest you to update incorrect structured data with  reconsideration request after correcting. After that Google will check whether you have fixed the problem correctly so that the manual action may get remove . 

This thing happened due to few recipe plugins of WordPress. 

• WP-Ultimate Recipe
• Ziplist
• Yummly
• EasyRecipe Plus
  
  
  
  
  These were few recipe plugins that were causing rich snippets manual action problem. So if you are using one of that recipe plugin on your wordpress website then you must update those plugins into latest versions. These recipe plugins are effecting markup reviews and ratings. Actual user can't this because they are markedup into a code which can trigger into a manual action. If you are using any of those recipe plugin that use for reviews and ration then you will get warning  from Google. There is one other thing is those website who use Genesis framework get the most manual action warning so i request you to update into a latest version of Genesis . You can easily test your recipe pages using Google structured data testing tool. 

• Bottom line is with this  manual action all those recipe sites will not be able to show any of rich snippet information in Google search results. So what are you waiting for if you don't want to loose your recipe markup, then make sure you follow all Google guidelines.

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Google buys entire .app Domain For $25 Mn

Google paid $25 million to get exclusive rights to the .app TLD, according to a new report. TLDs, or “top-level domains” are the bits like “.com” and “.net” at the end of web domains. ICANN, the organization responsible for managing web addresses, has been launching many new, customized TLDs in recent months.

The purchase means that Google will be able to create web addresses like “google.app” or “android.app.” Google, of course, has its own domain registry where users can buy their own web addresses. The .app TLD may become available through that route, though Google hasn’t confirmed those plans.

It’s also possible that Google could have other plans for the domain. Unlike other TLDs currently held by the company (such as .how and .dad), .app provides a unique opportunity to set the Google Play store apart from competitors by offering developers the chance to get a .app domain linking directly to their Google Play page.

If Google does decide to allow anyone to buy a .app domain from its registry, it would allow app makers to link the URLs up to outlets such as Apple’s iOS App Store. Over time, as users learn to use the .app domain to find mobile software, making sure those popular links go directly to Google’s market could help draw users to the Play Store and Android ecosystem.