Using RDFa and Microformats for Search Engine Optimization

Gary Eckstein Internet 4 competitive advantage, foaf, google, meta data, microformats, relationships, rich snippets, search engine consultant, Search Engine Optimization, semantic, semantic web, wolfram alpha, WordPress, xfn, yahoo

The use of Microformats and RDFa is becoming more commonplace among search engines. Yahoo has been indexing and using RDFa and Microformats meta data for a short while and now Google has ‘come to the party’ (although Google use of the data will be limited for now – and calls RDFa ‘Rich Snippets’). Microformats and, [...]

Feb 11, 2009

Add FoaF to Your Web Page

Gary Eckstein Social Media 0 foaf, microformats, mybloglog, rdfa, rich snippets, xfn

Following on from my previous post ‘Friend of a Friend, the Semantic Web and Web 3.0‘ , it is worth adding how FoaF may easily be integrated into any Web Page (including Blog Posts in WordPress, Typepad, Drupal or any other platform). One of the challenges of FoaF is it’s simple to have many RDF [...]

Feb 7, 2009

Friend of a Friend, the Semantic Web and Web 3.0

Gary Eckstein Social Media 2 deep web, foaf, people search, rich snippets, search, semantic web, web 2.0, web 3.0, xfn

Current People Search engines and sites make assumptions as to the relationships between data and people. The word assumptions is critical here as, although some of the People Search Engines search Web 2.0 sites as well as the standard search engines and the deep web, the data returned are a best guess of their relationships. [...]