Comments on: Microformats and RDF, is this the right time? http://www.stateofsearch.com/microformats-and-rdf-is-this-the-right-time/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=microformats-and-rdf-is-this-the-right-time State of Search - Where Search and Social meet up Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:44:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Barry Adams http://www.stateofsearch.com/microformats-and-rdf-is-this-the-right-time/#comment-129 Barry Adams Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:11:31 +0000 http://www.stateofsearch.com/?p=340#comment-129 <b>Update 12/3/2010:</b> Google has announced it will now also support microdata (HTML5) for rich snippets: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/microdata-support-for-rich-snippets.html Update 12/3/2010: Google has announced it will now also support microdata (HTML5) for rich snippets: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/microdata-support-for-rich-snippets.html

]]> By: Barry Adams http://www.stateofsearch.com/microformats-and-rdf-is-this-the-right-time/#comment-104 Barry Adams Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:44:36 +0000 http://www.stateofsearch.com/?p=340#comment-104 @Marc & Tristan, what I failed to mention in my article was that microformats also make it easier for scrapers to harvest your content. You're not only telling search engines what your content means, you're also telling content scrapers, making it a lot easier for them to harvest your content. But the core of my point was the lack of standardization and clarity on exactly what to implement. There's a wild growth of different microformats for different purposes, and then we have various RDF ontologies that try to do a lot of the same things. So yes, you could implement microformats now, but is it future-proof? @Marc & Tristan, what I failed to mention in my article was that microformats also make it easier for scrapers to harvest your content. You’re not only telling search engines what your content means, you’re also telling content scrapers, making it a lot easier for them to harvest your content.

But the core of my point was the lack of standardization and clarity on exactly what to implement. There’s a wild growth of different microformats for different purposes, and then we have various RDF ontologies that try to do a lot of the same things. So yes, you could implement microformats now, but is it future-proof?

]]> By: Tristan Teunissen http://www.stateofsearch.com/microformats-and-rdf-is-this-the-right-time/#comment-103 Tristan Teunissen Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:34:52 +0000 http://www.stateofsearch.com/?p=340#comment-103 When data is enriched with microformats / rdf, searchengines can create a better rich snippet for a website and the clickrate will increase by approximately 15%, that's what I was told at the Web3.0 conference in Santa Clara last january. This insight was based upon experiences from Bestbuy, they started publishing their full catalog as RDF/XML using GoodRelations. So becoming a SEO++ company where SEO and dataobjects meet eachother, won't harm you. When data is enriched with microformats / rdf, searchengines can create a better rich snippet for a website and the clickrate will increase by approximately 15%, that’s what I was told at the Web3.0 conference in Santa Clara last january. This insight was based upon experiences from Bestbuy, they started publishing their full catalog as RDF/XML using GoodRelations. So becoming a SEO++ company where SEO and dataobjects meet eachother, won’t harm you.

]]> By: Marc http://www.stateofsearch.com/microformats-and-rdf-is-this-the-right-time/#comment-102 Marc Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:37:36 +0000 http://www.stateofsearch.com/?p=340#comment-102 Even if Microformats might not give you any ranking advantages, just for the pure differentiation factor in potentially improving the click-through-rate in the SERPs might be well worth it to implement. Google and Bing are both making search results a much more richer display. If this is a competitive advantage, why not innovate and be an early adopter? Even if Microformats might not give you any ranking advantages, just for the pure differentiation factor in potentially improving the click-through-rate in the SERPs might be well worth it to implement.

Google and Bing are both making search results a much more richer display. If this is a competitive advantage, why not innovate and be an early adopter?

]]> By: Andy Mabbett http://www.stateofsearch.com/microformats-and-rdf-is-this-the-right-time/#comment-88 Andy Mabbett Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:40:05 +0000 http://www.stateofsearch.com/?p=340#comment-88 Microformats and RDF are not "rivals". they serve different purposes, and can be used alongside each other with ease; and without interference.. Microformats and RDF are not “rivals”. they serve different purposes, and can be used alongside each other with ease; and without interference..

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