Quote – “With schema.org, site owners and developers can learn about structured data and improve how their sites appear in major search engines. Ramanathan Guha, Google Fellow.”
Looks like schema.org is going to effect search results..
Quote – We look forward to seeing structured markup continue to grow on the web, powering richer search results and new kinds of applications. Ramanathan Guha, Google Fellow.”
if you were paying attention, you might have caught that Google has teamed up with schema.org and they have introduced a “powering richer search results”
You might also noticed, schema.org markup is only valid for doctype – HTML5 – http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/microdata.html
This be the kickback website owners get from the Panda/Farmer catastrophic drops in rankings it caused for some. This enriched search format for website owners will easily find their specific product or services their website offers.
I suggest getting your html converted to a html5 and add this apparently structured data update to your website. It will maximize the s/e core function is what im seeing. A streamline straight to the websites history! The long term goals are to support a wide range of different formats, the main focus is on the Microdata. They have a guide that is understandable if you know doctype – HTML5. Off to understand microdata so that we can start implementing markup to your web pages to help our rankings! I’ll keep you posted on the effect. T
Schema.org – Update
Google recently announced it would begin utilizing a new form of Rich Text Markup, you can see at schema.org. This promted a flurry of attention from web developers and SEO specialists, scrambling to learn to use this new markup.
Looking into it, we find, schema markup is only used by google to further refine search results for certain things, such as products.
Microdata is a set of tags, introduced with HTML5, that allows you to describe a specific movie, place, person, or video.
The fine print is if you’re using xhtml, or already using a type of Rich Text Markup recognized by google, it’s not that urgent to update to this new format. Thedjphat.com.