Comments on: Why Use Microformats?

By: Brave New World For Yellow Pages: Google Nabs Marketshare, Strangles Local Directories

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:01:25 +0000

[...] Another aspect helping Yelp during this period is that they’re essentially a poster-child for semantic markup. This spring, Google’s introduction of rich snippets has allowed Yelp’s listings in the SERPs to stand out more, attracting consumers to click more due to the “bling” decorating the listings in the form of the star ratings (though, Insiderpages listings also have the same treatment in Google SERPs, but perhaps their pages may not rank as well as Yelp’s for various other reasons). There are now some very good reasons why sites with ratings and reviews should be adopting microformats, and it’s not that hard to do! For a more detailed explanation, read my recap on the subject, Why Use Microformats? [...]

By: Should You Use .TEL Top Level Domains (TLDs)? | SEMClubHouse - Key Relevance Blog

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:55:14 +0000

[...] It’s absolutely stunning to me that they took the trouble to provide vCard off of their contact info pages when they could easily also embed all the vCard information into the page itself, using semantic markup! Meanwhile, his blog is suggesting that using .TEL in some way should be done instead of using hCard! And, I totally fail to see the significance of protecting info he’s referring to with privacy settings — are the .TEL pages a publicly-findable directory of contact info, or not?!? It’s disappointing that they wouldn’t simply incorporate the hCard and thereby gain additional advantage from the special display treatments that Google has begun applying to microformat-enriched…. [...]

By: Optimize Your Search Engine Listing for Improved CTR | SEMClubHouse - Key Relevance Blog

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:26:25 +0000

[...] and it seems clear that they intend to launch more, particularly ones related to the use of Microformats, such as hCalendar, hCard, and [...]

By: David Mihm

David Mihm — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:18:03 +0000

Terrific post, Chris. I agree that microformats are still too geeky for mainstream but for those of us who know about them, they’re definitely a best practice, and Google and the other engines will only include them on an even greater basis going forward.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:30:14 +0000

Great article. I have only recently started to become interested in Microformatting and am totally sold on the idea. As you have illustrated, the possibilities for more precise organic search results using Microformats/RDFa is fantastic.