Re: Question about JSON-LD and searchengines

What about this: <link rel="alternate" type="application/ld+json"
href="[JSONLD_URL]">
instead of this: <script rel="alternate" type="application/ld+json"
scr="[JSONLD_URL]"></script>

I was like... if XML's (feeds) can have an alternate representation of a
certain page, why can't JSON-LD do the same? Because, somehow inline
JSON-LD doesn't make sense to me, I mean... what are the advantages to
represent same data within a HTML document twice (JSON-LD + structured
data)? In my opinion, this will only add more page size and loading time.
The second thought I had was, why don't we serve JSON-LD or HTML depending
on the expect-headers? So instead of including it by means of a <script> or
<link> tag, we skip the HTML all together and directly have a server
respond with the correct format. By doing this, it requires applications,
such as search engines, less effort to retrieve the same content without
being forced to parse it twice.


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.com>wrote:

> On Sep 8, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Ka-Sing Chou <ka-sing@quantumspork.nl> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> The last few days, I have been busy with the correctness of my JSON-LD
> format (thanks Gregg ^^). Now I got the correct format, is there any way to
> tell searchengines that my website uses JSON-LD?
> I don't know if I am correct but I read (git issues) something like this:
>
> If my url is https://www.seoprovider.nl/seo-pakketten/mkb-geavanceerd/
> and my JSON-LD is located at
> https://www.seoprovider.nl/seo-pakketten/mkb-geavanceerd.jsonld
> can't I use something like this:
>
> <script type="application/ld+json" src="
> https://www.seoprovider.nl/seo-pakketten/mkb-geavanceerd.jsonld"></script>
>
> or should I include the content of the JSON-LD within the script tag after
> I defined the data-context (which makes the HTML-document bigger)?
>
>
> I can't speak for the search engines, but I believe you want to include
> your JSON-LD within the script tag, using
> content-type="application/ld+json" rather than reference it in an external
> file. Of course, you could also maintain the external version, and use a
> rel="alternate" to reference it, and a server-side include to include the
> body with a script tag.
>
> Google's webmaster tools might help you with this.
>
> Gregg
>
> Let me know.
> --
> Kind regards and big thanks in advance,
>
> Ka-Sing Chou
>
>
>


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