{"id":641121,"date":"2013-02-04T12:23:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T17:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=214818"},"modified":"2013-02-04T12:23:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T17:23:24","slug":"google-apparently-testing-product-counts-in-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641121","title":{"rendered":"Google Apparently Testing Product Counts In Search Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Storms happened upon an interesting Google feature, presumably in testing. In a &#8220;site:&#8221; search for Macy&#8217;s, he found where the number of items for sale found on pages is showing up in search results as part of the snippet. 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If you have this with rel=publisher and schema star rating\u00a0reviews\u00a0you can take up some\u00a0serious\u00a0SERP real estate. Keep in mind I had to get past the page where you hide dead bodies on in Google which is page 3. 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