I would like to make the author of a page appear in Google Rich Snippets.
Is it possible to do that with Microformats?
See the "People" microformat documentation for Google Rich Snippets. Here's the overview of how the snippets work. After filling in the vCard, make sure to submit it to Google so it gets picked up.
Note that it's still an experimental feature and it appears they're mostly focusing on reviews and social networking, so you're not at all assured that they'll display the vCard you add, or will know that it's the page author. But it's easy enough to add.
Sample (from the documentation above):
<div class="vcard">
<div class="fn">John Smith</div>
<span class="nickname">Smithy</span>
<span class="url">http://www.example.com</span>
<span class="org">ACME</span>
<span class="adr">
<span class="locality">Albuquerque</span>
</span>
<span class="title">Engineer</span>
Darryl
</div>
According to Google's guidelines seems to be better when you use rel=”author” authorship declaration. Highly recommended in the case of news websites, blogs, or opinion sites (http://www.kozelben.hu/)...
AFAIK it's only done for Google Scholar and there's no other way yet.
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I have a page for Mobile application details and features, but the app itself is not implemented yet and not available on any store, so I don't know the size,version,rating etc..
The question is can I render the page with dynamic Schema.org markup, which means to build now for example as an Article markup, and once the app is live the page will be built with MobileApplication ? Can I do this and Google will like it and understand it? if not, what can I do for my case?
#if(IsAppLive){
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/MobileApplication">
}
else{
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article">
}
Yes, but Google will only scrape and index one version. It won't register a second version until it re-scrapes, which can take up to two weeks.
I want to add schema.org to my site, I've read some guides for that and I understood the way I should do that. But should I add these tags for example for images and url:
<figure itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject">
<a itemprop="contentUrl" href="someurl" rel="bookmark">
<img src="someurl"/>
</a>
</figure>
to all my images, all my urls, all my pages or there is a way to do that globally for my site?
Yes, they are meant to be added to all your tags. That way you show search engines the semantic relationship between every item on your webpage.
If you don't use any programming or frameworks, you need to add them by hand.
It is a good practice to always validate them while developing to see how Search Engines will see them: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
Google displays links to pages in its search results by taking all the text inside an tag as the link. So this:
<a href="#">
<span>1</span> This is a great story
</a>
displays in Google search results as:
1 This is a great story
Is there any way to tell Google to index a specific part of the link text, e.g.
<a href="#">
<span class="dont-index-me">1</span>
<span class="index-me">This is a great story</span>
</a>
So I can have just: 'This is a great story'.
Or is the only option to change the markup:
<span>1</span> This is a great story
No. Google will index an entire page's contents. there is no way to tell Google to ignore part of a page. There are black hat techniques, of course, but those just get you banned if you get caught and aren't worth the risk.
just change the markup (2nd solution) ie. move it out of <a> tag
I'm new to SEO and heard that using microdata tags in html can dramatically improve SEO. So, for one of my pages, the schema type is an organization... in particular a sports team. One of the properties for a sports team is the members. So, I have the following code:
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam">
<span itemprop="name">New York Yankees</span>
<span itemprop="members">Derek Jeter</span>
</div>
The "members" itemprop has to be a person itemscope (http://schema.org/Person). What is the format for nesting one itemscope inside of another?
From the Google article on microdata tags:
The example below shows the same HTML, but in this case, it includes the address property.
<div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Person">
My name is <span itemprop="name">Bob Smith</span>,
but people call me <span itemprop="nickname">Smithy</span>.
Here is my homepage:
www.example.com.
I live in
<span itemprop="address" itemscope
itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Address">
<span itemprop="locality">Albuquerque</span>,
<span itemprop="region">NM</span>
</span>
and work as an <span itemprop="title">engineer</span>
at <span itemprop="affiliation">ACME Corp</span>.
</div>
Here's how this sample works:
The address property is itself an item, containing its own set of properties. This is indicated by putting the itemscope attribute on the item that declares the address property, and using the itemtype attribute to specify the type of item being described, like this: <span itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Address">.
I would add that microtags are in their infancy, so you cannot guarantee that the specification will remain intact for very long. I personally predict that the blackhat SEO guys are going to be all over this, and it'll be a headache for Google to keep up with the tricks. So, whilst they might provide you a temporary SEO boost, don't rely on them too heavily.
On a more positive note, I can certainly see these microtags being useful for non-SEO purposes, especially in the field of screen-readers. Fun stuff!
A rich snippet example from Schema.org http://schema.org/AggregateRating:
<html>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<img itemprop="image" src="dell-30in-lcd.jpg" />
<span itemprop="name">Dell UltraSharp 30" LCD Monitor</span>
<div itemprop="aggregateRating"
itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
<span itemprop="ratingValue">87</span>
out of <span itemprop="bestRating">100</span>
based on <span itemprop="ratingCount">24</span> user ratings
</div>
</div>
</html>
But http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets won't show a preview.
So, the following words from http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146645 are just lies?
New! schema.org lets you mark up a much wider range of item types on
your pages, using a vocabulary that Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! can
all understand. Find out more. (Google still supports your existing
rich snippets markup, though.)
It is working absolutely fine.
Google is not obliged to show you preview every time, and here it shows an error when I inserted your give example from schema.org:
The following errors were found during preview generation:
This page does not contain authorship or rich snippet markup.
I have done it in my website's news pieces and it shows fine.