Re: Google Webmaster Tools Update (and Rich Snippets)

That all is good. Also we should have some basic organization within the
page that are currently used as keys for indexing, such as H1s and
descriptions.

I will file a bug on "ensuring our schema is optimized for search engines"
and assign it to Patrick.

J
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From:  Patrick D'Souza <pdsouza@about.com>
Reply-To:  "pdsouza@about.com" <pdsouza@about.com>
Date:  Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:50 PM
To:  Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
Cc:  "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
Subject:  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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