http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/tags/RDFa/default.aspxTags: RDFaenCommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31104.93)http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2010/04/27/google-goes-international-with-rich-snippets.aspxTue, 27 Apr 2010 14:47:00 GMT1e469e21-c924-44fa-a132-47b5d0a8ad47:13514Pete Prestipino0http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=13514http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2010/04/27/google-goes-international-with-rich-snippets.aspx#comments<hr /> <p><strong> Google announced the international availability of rich snippets on the Webmaster Central Blog this week.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight:normal;">For those unfamiliar with rich snippets, they enable you to include additional data form your site in search results. <i>That got your attention, didn&rsquo;t it?&nbsp;</i></span></strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=99170">Documentation</a> is now published on how to mark up sites correctly in several languages include simplied and traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Polish, and many others (including English). <br /><br /> Different types of rich snippets are currently supported including profiles of people, reviews, videos, events, and recipes. Google has provided a very handy testing tool which lets you validate your markup to make sure results are shown the way you want them. <br /><br /> Before you rush off and retool your site to include rich snippets, know that Google will be taking a &ldquo;gradual approach&rdquo; to surface the data &ndash; meaning there is no guarantee that the rich snippets you include will be shown on the SERP&rsquo;s. </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/aggbug.aspx?PostID=13514" width="1" height="1">googlemicroformatsRDFarich snippetsmicrodata4710http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2009/09/15/video-optimziation-google-supports-fb-share-and-rdfa.aspxTue, 15 Sep 2009 21:20:00 GMT1e469e21-c924-44fa-a132-47b5d0a8ad47:10183Pete Prestipino2http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=10183http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2009/09/15/video-optimziation-google-supports-fb-share-and-rdfa.aspx#comments<p><b>If you&#39;re creating videos, hosting them on your website, and aim to optimize those videos for competitive search engine placement you&#39;ll want to pay attention to this one. </b></p> <p><i>Google today announced support for Facebook Share and Yahoo! SearchMonkey RDFa for videos. </i></p> <p>These markup formats (micro-formats) allow you to specify information (like titles, descriptions and even preview images) about videos and potentially influence how they are indexed - although it&#39;s doubtful that videos utilizing this technique will be given preferential treatment. While Google does pretty well at discovering this information by itself as it stands today, using these format structures enables you to give them some help and guidance. </p> <p>Google has advised that to maximize the chances they find the right markup on your video pages, you should check to ensure it appears in the HTML without the execution of JavaScript or Flash. </p> <p>The following is some example code provided by Google on how to use both Facebook Share and the SearchMonkey RDFa for videos:</p> <p><b>Facebook Share:</b></p> <p><img src="http://www.websitemagazine.com/images/blog/facebooksharevideocode.gif" border="0" height="125" width="530" alt="" /></p> <p><b>RDFa (Yahoo! SearchMonkey):</b></p> <p style="margin-left:15;"><img src="http://www.websitemagazine.com/images/blog/yahoosearchmonkey-rdfa-vide.gif" border="0" height="351" width="530" alt="" /></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10183" width="1" height="1">googlevideoyahoo91509RDFavideo optimizationsearchmonkeyFacebook Share