Rich snippets: Concert dates in Google. This is the first of a two-part series. Also see: • Why Google Authorship matters to your business Guest post by Selena Narayanasamy Director of Strategy Development, BlueGlass Interactive If you’re not familiar with rich snippets, they’re data, included in the code of a page, designed to summarize the content […]
Semantic Web
Top 10 Predictions on What’s Coming Up Next in Social Media
At the beginning of the month I was asked to speak on a panel that discussed social media, social networks and “what’s coming up next.” In research for this discussion, I came up with a few insights on what I foresee coming up next in the world of social media. Here are my top 10 […]
The benefits of structuring your data using microformats
Google’s Rich Snippet Testing Tool Last week we discussed how the Semantic Web relies upon markup languages that tag Web content, making it easier for machines to interpret. This can be accomplished in a number of ways, including tagging content as structured data or linked data. Today we’ll take a look at marking up your […]
The Semantic Web: An explanation in plain English
An example of Google Rich Snippets. The Semantic Web is a big step toward Web 3.0, where the ultimate goal is to make Web content more machine-friendly and thus, in turn, more useful to humans. Most websites are produced using HTML, which is a markup language used to make a website “look” a certain way. […]
Web 3.0 demystified: An explanation in pictures
Socialmedia.biz contributor Deltina Hay now has a featured column on Technorati called You’ll Be Back: Search Optimization & Survival. The column focuses on search optimization as it applies to the entire Web: search engines, social search, mobile search, the semantic Web, etc. You can read the articles right here on Socialmedia.biz every week. In this […]