Microformats SEO and the Sumo parser.

[jeffm2009]

Back to what Dave had said, there is also potential here to scrape contact information, for both malicious and non-malicious purposes. For example, if the use of vcards is widely adopted, you can fairly easily write a program that will scrape/aggregate the vcard info and that data can be used for a variety of purposes like spam.

[Webnauts]

As I probably mentioned before, I upgraded my site to XHTML+RDFa, and today I found the first possibly real advantage: Interested in Rich Snippets? - Webmasters/Site owners Help

I submitted my site and I am looking forward if googles promises are true.

[maneetpuri]

Hi Guys

New to this technology but have heard about it few days back, Is there any relation between Microformats and RDFa formats?

Can any one explain me that is there any strategy or logic behind the implementation of both the things on your site?

What is the use of embedding it into your web page code?

Thanks in advance!

[vblni]

I think both Microformats and RDFa are same. Also XML feeds fall under the same umbrella. Please anyone correct me if I am wrong on this context.

[Webnauts]

I think both Microformats and RDFa are same. Also XML feeds fall under the same umbrella. Please anyone correct me if I am wrong on this context.

My site is coded in XHTML+RDFa so I may use RDFa. If your site is coded in HTML or XHTML you can not use RDFa. You can use instead Microformats.

About Microformats & RDFa: Marking up structured data - Webmasters/Site owners Help

About RDFa: About RDFa - Webmasters/Site owners Help

And here is the one of the wicked stuff about the use of the above: Google's Rich Snippets and the Semantic Web - O'Reilly Radar

[Webnauts]

I think it give no suitable increase in your SE ranking

And how about the local search?

[Webnauts]

Some updates about using Microformats or RDFa.

Google launched a tool for testing.

Here you can see a sample result from a page of my web site I tested with their tool:

Webmaster Tools - Rich Snippets Testing Tool

If you are implementing Microformats or RDFa on your web site, make sure you are not blocking any bot using the name Fetch or so similar:

This is the info I got from my log files, wondering why couldn't their tool fetch my pages when I was testing with their tool:

72.14.192.66 - - [31/Aug/2009:14:31:07 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 5294 "-" "PageFetcher-Google-CoOp;"

Good luck!

[Webnauts]

Some great news again, which I could not hold myself back from sharing: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Supporting Facebook Share and RDFa for videos

Enjoy,

John

[Webnauts]

I believe some members maybe did not understand what the topic is about here, so I thought of sharing here some additional information that every one can understand:

Intro to the sematic web: YouTube - Intro to the Semantic Web

I recommend everyone to check that out.

Enjoy.

[Doc]

Thanks for that link, John. I hadn't fully made the mental connection between the semantic web concept and microformats. It really opens up a lot of possibilities to fine-tune search processes.

Looks like I've got a lot of reading in my future!.