If you don’t know what those words mean, you should, because these concepts are turning SEO on its ear. It is no longer enough to mark up your Web pages with HTML and hope for the best. Now schemas have been defined using microformats that produce rich snippets for your search results. If that sounds like a mouthful, then you should be boning up on the latest markup geekiness that Google has in store for you. It’s time to start coding tags that tell the search engines what your data means (it’s a price) not just how it looks (make it bold).
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This is what XML advocates have been pining for since the ’90s (and what old SGML folks like me were talking about in the late ’70s). It’s the semantic Web without the smart technology that reads minds. To learn how you can jump on this bandwagon, check out my latest post on Search Engine Guide, “Schemas, microformats, rich snippets, and SEO.”