Re: Google Webmaster Tools Update (and Rich Snippets)

Awesome. Good job Doug :) Lets leave the rich snippets at low priority 
for now. Once we have the site architecture with topic clusters in 
place, we can work on optimizing the metadata/rich snippets associated 
with the content.

If anyone is interested, here's the tool which can help you identify 
structured data that Google can extract from your page - 
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets .Most search engines 
can identify the structure defined at 
http://schema.org/docs/schemas.html. Feel free to open a bug in Bug 
Genie for this and I can work on identifying and defining the right 
schema and metadata to be used on pages.

Ideally, we would want a search for the keyword border-radius to return 
the WPD border-radius page in the top 3-5 results :) Sitemap is one step 
towards it. Yay !!!

On 04/14/2013 07:30 PM, Doug Schepers wrote:
> Hi, folks-
>
> I got an action to add our sitemap [1] to Google Webmaster Tools, 
> which I have done.
>
> One of the other tips they have is inserting "rich snippets" 
> (microdata or RDFa Lite) [2]; the specific use they have for this is 
> to split out search results into structured results.
>
> They don't currently pull out technical documentation for display on 
> search result pages, but I would love for them to do so for our 
> data... search Google or Bing for "WPD border-radius" and it could 
> show the summary, syntax, and values right there in the search 
> results, with links to examples and compatibility tables. That would 
> be cool. Since Google/Bing doesn't have that now, adding markup like 
> this is a low priority, but I thought I'd put a bug in your ear. There 
> are a few vocabularies that might be suitable for marking up our data 
> [3], and we could even work on expanding those.
>
> [1] http://www.webplatform.org/sitemaps/sitemap-index-wpwiki.xml
> [2] https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170
> [3] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Metadata
>
> Regards-
> -Doug
>

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