Google and the use of Schema

Posted:
Thu Sep 27, 2012 2:50 pm
by DJ
This is a great background on SCHEMA, its use, the developers and why it will be important down the road to improve the overall search for websites:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bi ... er=1211158
Re: Google and the use of Schema

Posted:
Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:38 pm
by Mike-R
Ran into this article that was recently posted to YouMoz regarding rich snippets:
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/getting-the-m ... croformatsLooking into rich snippets again recently I was surprised to see how frequently results show up with it on google.com. Still either not supported or not commonly used in google.ca results though.
Re: Google and the use of Schema

Posted:
Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:46 am
by DJ
Here is yet another good article about Rich Snippets. Seems Google is really making a push to have sites add snippets... but also to add them smartly. This requires some valuable thought.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot. ... lines.html
Re: Google and the use of Schema

Posted:
Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:30 am
by Mike-R
Yeah, I'd like to approach this by doing some detailed research into which verticals rich snippets are most prevalent in and develop best practice guidelines. We certainly don't want to waste time implementing rich snippets incorrectly or aspects that just aren't supported yet.
Oh, and Ryan should be interested in this stuff - I was noticing in U.S. SERPs that rich snippets are showing up for some AdWords results! In the space of and AdWords ad it really makes them stand out. (Mostly just stars and review counts form what I recall)