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 […]
Barry Schwartz on March 12, 2010 at 9:27 am | Reading time: 1 minute
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 Google, go here.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.