How you could make your Help topics appear at the top of the Search Engines

  We’ve just uploaded a video on “How you could make your Help topics appear at the top of the Search Engines”. It’s about Schema.org/HowTo, which Google is promoting as the way to get instructional content to appear in the snippets box. There is a longer version of this video in Cherryleaf’s Advanced Technical Writing… Read more »

Podcast 60: Google adds rich results support for how-to content

In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we look at Google’s announcement to support and promote rich, how-to structured data in Google Search and the Google Assistant. Transcript Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast. In this episode we’re going to look at a recent announcement by Google (it was also on the Google Blog). We’ll provide a link… Read more »

Google announces support for FAQ and How-to structured data

“Today we are announcing support for FAQ and How-to structured data on Google Search and the Google Assistant, including new reports in Search Console to monitor how your site is performing.” https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/05/new-in-structured-data-faq-and-how-to.html https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/how-to https://schema.org/HowTo It will be interesting how this will/can co-exist with DITA.

Upcoming conference – Evolution of Technical Communication

Cherryleaf’s Ellis Pratt will be the keynote speaker at the Evolution of Technical Communication conference, which will take place 4-5 June 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria. What Skills Will Technical Communicators Need for the Upcoming Years? The ways organisations support end users has changed over time. This is because new technologies emerge, products change, and users… Read more »