{"id":2885,"date":"2012-07-11T05:48:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T09:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2012-07-07T09:06:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T13:06:03","slug":"big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brands Violate Traditional SEO Practices and Still Get Organic Placement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Panda and Penguin updates have turned the web upside down leaving SEO experts struggling to understand the what it takes to now earn top organic placement. In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.websitemagazine.com\/content\/blogs\/posts\/archive\/2012\/06\/07\/new-study-reveals-top-google-ranking-factors.aspx?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">recent article from Website Magazine<\/a> (a publication that I really like), some tips are revealed that may help you to update your SEO strategy.<\/p>\n<p>First, it appears that big brands are breaking all the rules and getting or retaining organic placement. There are some important take-aways we can glean from the research done for this article.<\/p>\n<p>1. Size and authority of your website are key for organic placement. A 5 page website will never be able to garner organic placement when competing with larger well placed website. Blogging remains the very best way to quickly build authoritative content for small to medium sized businesses who want to compete with big brands.<\/p>\n<p>2. Facebook shares will impact your organic placement. Twitter activity is down the list to number six for impact, but Facebook social signals remain a key indicator of success in placement on Google. That means not just posting on Facebook but having people share your posts that contain links.<\/p>\n<p>3. The content in the &lt;h1&gt; tag and the volume of content on a page for big brands do not appear to impact organic placement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSurprisingly, the data show a negative correlation between these factors and rankings \u2013 contradicting traditional SEO theory,\u201d explains Marcus Tober, Searchmetrics\u2019 CTO. \u201cSo, not having keywords in headlines or having less text on a page seems to be associated with sites that rank higher.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s interesting news pointing out that authority of a site actually counteracts the keyword density and using keywords in the &lt;h1&gt; tags for big brand sites. However, that does not mean that smaller brands cannot and should not optimize their page code, but do it smarter and in a natural readable format.<\/p>\n<p>4. Too much advertising on a page even for big brands appears to impact organic placement. This is a direct impact from Google&#8217;s Panda and Penguin updates. It doesn&#8217;t mean you cannot have ads on your page, but need to not have your page all about ads.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, here are the factors Website Magazine says are important. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.websitemagazine.com\/content\/blogs\/posts\/archive\/2012\/06\/07\/new-study-reveals-top-google-ranking-factors.aspx?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Make sure to read the full article<\/a> as it is really pretty helpful.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Facebook shares<\/li>\n<li>Number of backlinks<\/li>\n<li>Facebook total<\/li>\n<li>Facebook comments<\/li>\n<li>Facebook likes<\/li>\n<li>Tweets<\/li>\n<li>Percent of no-follow backlinks &#8211; interesting this is a factor too!<\/li>\n<li>Keywords in domain name.<\/li>\n<li>Percent of backlinks with keywords &#8211; you&#8217;ll take a hit for too many with SEO anchor text<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Panda and Penguin updates have turned the web upside down leaving SEO experts struggling to understand the what it takes to now earn top organic placement. In this recent article from Website Magazine (a publication that I really like), some tips are revealed that may help you to update your SEO strategy. First, it appears that big brands are breaking all the rules and getting or retaining organic placement. There are some important take-aways we can glean from the research done for this article. 1. Size and authority of your website are key for organic placement. A 5 page website will never be able to garner organic placement when competing with larger well placed website. Blogging remains the very best way to quickly build authoritative content for small to medium sized businesses who want to compete with big brands. 2. Facebook shares will impact your organic placement. Twitter activity is down the list to number six for impact, but Facebook social signals remain a key indicator of success in placement on Google. That means not just posting on Facebook but having people share your posts that contain links. 3. The content in the &lt;h1&gt; tag and the volume of content on a page for big brands do not appear to impact organic placement. \u201cSurprisingly, the data show a negative correlation between these factors and rankings \u2013 contradicting traditional SEO theory,\u201d explains Marcus Tober, Searchmetrics\u2019 CTO. \u201cSo, not having keywords in headlines or having less text on a page seems to be associated with sites that rank higher.&#8221; That&#8217;s interesting news pointing out that authority of a site actually counteracts the keyword density and using keywords in the &lt;h1&gt; tags for big brand sites. However, that does not mean that smaller brands cannot and should not optimize their page code, but do it smarter and in a natural readable format. 4. Too much advertising on a page even for big brands appears to impact organic placement. This is a direct impact from Google&#8217;s Panda and Penguin updates. It doesn&#8217;t mean you cannot have ads on your page, but need to not have your page all about ads. In a nutshell, here are the factors Website Magazine says are important. Make sure to read the full article as it is really pretty helpful. Facebook shares Number of backlinks Facebook total Facebook comments Facebook likes Tweets Percent of no-follow backlinks &#8211; interesting this is a factor too! Keywords in domain name. Percent of backlinks with keywords &#8211; you&#8217;ll take a hit for too many with SEO anchor text &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[436,198],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engine-optimization","tag-search-engine-optimization","tag-seo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Big Brands Violate Traditional SEO Practices and Still Get Organic Placement | The Web Authority<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big Brands Violate Traditional SEO Practices and Still Get Organic Placement | The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Google&#8217;s Panda and Penguin updates have turned the web upside down leaving SEO experts struggling to understand the what it takes to now earn top organic placement. In this recent article from Website Magazine (a publication that I really like), some tips are revealed that may help you to update your SEO strategy. First, it appears that big brands are breaking all the rules and getting or retaining organic placement. There are some important take-aways we can glean from the research done for this article. 1. Size and authority of your website are key for organic placement. A 5 page website will never be able to garner organic placement when competing with larger well placed website. Blogging remains the very best way to quickly build authoritative content for small to medium sized businesses who want to compete with big brands. 2. Facebook shares will impact your organic placement. Twitter activity is down the list to number six for impact, but Facebook social signals remain a key indicator of success in placement on Google. That means not just posting on Facebook but having people share your posts that contain links. 3. The content in the &lt;h1&gt; tag and the volume of content on a page for big brands do not appear to impact organic placement. \u201cSurprisingly, the data show a negative correlation between these factors and rankings \u2013 contradicting traditional SEO theory,\u201d explains Marcus Tober, Searchmetrics\u2019 CTO. \u201cSo, not having keywords in headlines or having less text on a page seems to be associated with sites that rank higher.&#8221; That&#8217;s interesting news pointing out that authority of a site actually counteracts the keyword density and using keywords in the &lt;h1&gt; tags for big brand sites. However, that does not mean that smaller brands cannot and should not optimize their page code, but do it smarter and in a natural readable format. 4. Too much advertising on a page even for big brands appears to impact organic placement. This is a direct impact from Google&#8217;s Panda and Penguin updates. It doesn&#8217;t mean you cannot have ads on your page, but need to not have your page all about ads. In a nutshell, here are the factors Website Magazine says are important. Make sure to read the full article as it is really pretty helpful. Facebook shares Number of backlinks Facebook total Facebook comments Facebook likes Tweets Percent of no-follow backlinks &#8211; interesting this is a factor too! Keywords in domain name. Percent of backlinks with keywords &#8211; you&#8217;ll take a hit for too many with SEO anchor text &nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mccordweb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-07-11T09:48:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nancy McCord\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@mccordweb\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@mccordweb\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nancy McCord\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/11\\\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/11\\\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nancy McCord\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7499f3ac0b008bc0e5b7a138ac1dc0ba\"},\"headline\":\"Big Brands Violate Traditional SEO Practices and Still Get Organic Placement\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-07-11T09:48:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/11\\\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":436,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Search Engine Optimization\",\"SEO\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Search Engine Optimization\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/11\\\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/11\\\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/11\\\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\\\/\",\"name\":\"Big Brands Violate Traditional SEO Practices and Still Get Organic Placement | The Web Authority\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-07-11T09:48:30+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/11\\\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/11\\\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/11\\\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Big Brands Violate Traditional SEO Practices and Still Get Organic Placement\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Web Authority | McCord Web Services News\\\/Blog\",\"description\":\"Smart Digital Marketing, Real Business Results - McCord Web Services\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"McCord Web Services LLC\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/McCord-Web-White-logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/McCord-Web-White-logo.png\",\"width\":450,\"height\":203,\"caption\":\"McCord Web Services LLC\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/mccordweb\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/mccordweb\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/nancy_mccord\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/nancymccord\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/user\\\/mccordweb\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7499f3ac0b008bc0e5b7a138ac1dc0ba\",\"name\":\"Nancy McCord\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/84f303fb7bc8bf9e3aa944d8a2b0913642ca2c0cb4e244d9bbea83c59dac189e?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/84f303fb7bc8bf9e3aa944d8a2b0913642ca2c0cb4e244d9bbea83c59dac189e?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/84f303fb7bc8bf9e3aa944d8a2b0913642ca2c0cb4e244d9bbea83c59dac189e?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nancy McCord\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Big Brands Violate Traditional SEO Practices and Still Get Organic Placement | The Web Authority","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Big Brands Violate Traditional SEO Practices and Still Get Organic Placement | The Web Authority","og_description":"Google&#8217;s Panda and Penguin updates have turned the web upside down leaving SEO experts struggling to understand the what it takes to now earn top organic placement. In this recent article from Website Magazine (a publication that I really like), some tips are revealed that may help you to update your SEO strategy. First, it appears that big brands are breaking all the rules and getting or retaining organic placement. There are some important take-aways we can glean from the research done for this article. 1. Size and authority of your website are key for organic placement. A 5 page website will never be able to garner organic placement when competing with larger well placed website. Blogging remains the very best way to quickly build authoritative content for small to medium sized businesses who want to compete with big brands. 2. Facebook shares will impact your organic placement. Twitter activity is down the list to number six for impact, but Facebook social signals remain a key indicator of success in placement on Google. That means not just posting on Facebook but having people share your posts that contain links. 3. The content in the &lt;h1&gt; tag and the volume of content on a page for big brands do not appear to impact organic placement. \u201cSurprisingly, the data show a negative correlation between these factors and rankings \u2013 contradicting traditional SEO theory,\u201d explains Marcus Tober, Searchmetrics\u2019 CTO. \u201cSo, not having keywords in headlines or having less text on a page seems to be associated with sites that rank higher.&#8221; That&#8217;s interesting news pointing out that authority of a site actually counteracts the keyword density and using keywords in the &lt;h1&gt; tags for big brand sites. However, that does not mean that smaller brands cannot and should not optimize their page code, but do it smarter and in a natural readable format. 4. Too much advertising on a page even for big brands appears to impact organic placement. This is a direct impact from Google&#8217;s Panda and Penguin updates. It doesn&#8217;t mean you cannot have ads on your page, but need to not have your page all about ads. In a nutshell, here are the factors Website Magazine says are important. Make sure to read the full article as it is really pretty helpful. Facebook shares Number of backlinks Facebook total Facebook comments Facebook likes Tweets Percent of no-follow backlinks &#8211; interesting this is a factor too! Keywords in domain name. Percent of backlinks with keywords &#8211; you&#8217;ll take a hit for too many with SEO anchor text &nbsp;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/","og_site_name":"The Web Authority","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mccordweb","article_published_time":"2012-07-11T09:48:30+00:00","author":"Nancy McCord","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@mccordweb","twitter_site":"@mccordweb","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nancy McCord","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/"},"author":{"name":"Nancy McCord","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#\/schema\/person\/7499f3ac0b008bc0e5b7a138ac1dc0ba"},"headline":"Big Brands Violate Traditional SEO Practices and Still Get Organic Placement","datePublished":"2012-07-11T09:48:30+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/"},"wordCount":436,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#organization"},"keywords":["Search Engine Optimization","SEO"],"articleSection":["Search Engine Optimization"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/","url":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/","name":"Big Brands Violate Traditional SEO Practices and Still Get Organic Placement | The Web Authority","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-07-11T09:48:30+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/07\/11\/big-brands-violate-traditional-seo-practices-and-still-get-organic-placement\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Big Brands Violate Traditional SEO Practices and Still Get Organic Placement"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/","name":"The Web Authority | McCord Web Services News\/Blog","description":"Smart Digital Marketing, Real Business Results - McCord Web Services","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#organization","name":"McCord Web Services LLC","url":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/McCord-Web-White-logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/McCord-Web-White-logo.png","width":450,"height":203,"caption":"McCord Web Services LLC"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mccordweb","https:\/\/x.com\/mccordweb","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nancy_mccord\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nancymccord","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mccordweb"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#\/schema\/person\/7499f3ac0b008bc0e5b7a138ac1dc0ba","name":"Nancy McCord","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/84f303fb7bc8bf9e3aa944d8a2b0913642ca2c0cb4e244d9bbea83c59dac189e?s=96&d=blank&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/84f303fb7bc8bf9e3aa944d8a2b0913642ca2c0cb4e244d9bbea83c59dac189e?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/84f303fb7bc8bf9e3aa944d8a2b0913642ca2c0cb4e244d9bbea83c59dac189e?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Nancy McCord"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}