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The RDFA/SEO WAVE How to catch it & why Email: [email protected] Twitter: @BarbaraStarr

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The RDFA/SEO WAVEHow to catch it & why

Email: [email protected]: @BarbaraStarr

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The Schema.org/SEO WAVEHow to catch it & why

Email: [email protected]: @BarbaraStarr

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About me

• Decades working with Semantic Technologies in finance, government, insurance and more

• Currently – Major Online Retailer• SD Semweb organizer, assistant SF organizer, etc• Added goodrelations rdfa onto some 900,000 item

pages– Looking at all kinds of backlinks from many e-tailers

sites certainly demonstrated the necessity for structured data within web pages or a “less gameable” search solution.

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What I am going to talk about

• The Wave• How to catch it• Why• The catch?• Demo

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Some basic definitions

• RDFa - RDF in attributes • Rich snippets, embedded structured data on

html pages• Typically used initially by the search engines to

enhance displays in SERPs• Rich Snippets yield increase in CTR (Click

Through Rate)• Initial claim – no change in search rankings

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The WAVE

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The Wave

• Yahoo• Google• Facebook• Many others, but focus on SEO

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Adoption/Usage

• First used by Yahoo, Searchmonkey, Feb 2008• Full RDFa support• Products• News• Events• Video• Documents• Local

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The Demise of Searchmonkey

Continued Support for RDFA snippets

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Adoption/Usage - GOOGLE • Rich snippets introduced May 12, 2009

– Reviews– People– Events– Businesses and organizations– Reviews– Recipes– Breadcrumbs– Local Search– Video– Images – Products

http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#

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Rich Snippets

• Google now supports Rich snippets for– People– Events– Businesses and organizations– Reviews– Recipes– Products– Breadcrumbs– Local Search

http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#

MAY 12, 2009

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RDFa for videosSeptember 2009

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October 26, 2009

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EventsMar 12, 2010

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Recipes

April 13, 2010

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Facebook Opengraph protocol based on RFDa April 20, 2010

Enables “semantic Profiling” of users

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April 26, 2010

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Sept 2, 2010

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Sept 22, 2010

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Products – Nov 2, 2010

Included support for goodrelations vocabulary

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Peter Mika’s blog – Yahoo Analysis

Results prior to goodrelations announcement by google

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LOD Cloud Evolution

The wave of growth has been remarkable

Source maintained by: Richard Cygniak and Anja Jentsch. http://lod-cloud.net

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Mar 2008

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March 5 - 2009

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LOD cloud – Sept 22 2010

latest LOD cloud

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How to catch the wave

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How to catch the wave

• Add rdfa to your website• Either directly or using tools

– Great goodrelations support for rich snippet generation

– Wordpress plug ins and other tools available– Drupal support– Others

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Why – Benefits

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Benefits

• Increase in CTR• Visibility in search engine verticals

– Local search– Shopping

• Definite ranking increase for verified, validated data (e.g within product search)

• Visibility in other engines/apps consuming RDFa• Mobile usage – massive market• Strong need for structured markup

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Increase in CTR

• Yahoo performed a study that showed > 15% increase in CTR on some sites as a result of using Rich snippets

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Search Engine verticals

• Additional rewards for encoding rich snippets on your site.

• Search verticals leveraging consumption of structured data

• Products, recipes, places ..

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Visibility in local Search

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Visibility in new products consuming RDFA

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Consuming multiple microformats

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The Catch?

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So what is the catch or is there one?

• Adoption• Ease of use• Standardized vocabularies• Complex nesting of divs and spans• There is a need for standardized vocabularies,

so how can we now best leverage microdata and Schema.org?

June 2, 2011JUST IN TIME FOR SEMTECH 2011?

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RDFA VALIDATORS AND TESTERS

• RDFA official site:http://check.rdfa.info/• Sindice Inspector: http://inspector.sindice.com/• Yahoo Objectfinder:

http://developer.search.yahoo.com/help/objectfinder• Google rich snippets tester:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets• New tool in Gruff – Demo to follow

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Barbara StarrEmail: [email protected]

Twitter: @BarbaraStarr

DEMO

How to use allegrograph visualization to ensure your RDFa is correct

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July 16, 2010