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    Google Adds Microdata Support For Rich Snippets

    The Google Webmaster Central blog announced a third markup language supported for Rich Snippets. In addition to microformats and RDFa support, Google has added microdata support, which is part of the HTML5 specification. Here is an example look at Microdata in HTML5 for use in Rich Snippets: To learn more about Rich Snippet support in […]

    The Google Webmaster Central blog announced a third markup language supported for Rich Snippets. In addition to microformats and RDFa support, Google has added microdata support, which is part of the HTML5 specification.

    Here is an example look at Microdata in HTML5 for use in Rich Snippets:

    Microdata Google

    To learn more about Rich Snippet support in Google, go here.


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