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SCHEMA 201: REAL WORLD MARKUP FOR SUCCESS Frederic Chanut Managing Director, In Marketing We Trust Deck is on Slideshare: InMktgWeTrust

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Real world success, resources and action items to help SEOs make the best of Semantic web and microdata

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SCHEMA 201: REAL WORLD

MARKUP FOR SUCCESS

Frederic Chanut Managing Director, In Marketing We Trust Deck is on Slideshare: InMktgWeTrust

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AGENDA

‣ Quick introduction

‣ Available syntax and Vocabularies

‣ Examples of Schema.org Syntax

‣ Schema beyond SEO

‣ Facebook and Opengraph updates

‣ Tools and Useful resources

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Sending detailed information about the meaning of your

page content to search engines and other data consumers,

in a way that can be easily processed by computers.

AKA: Delivering code readable by humans while visualizing

what a machine might get out of the rich markup.

3 APPROACH

+ 30% CTR “Tests have shown a

30% increase in

Organic search-engine traffic

to websites using Microdata

or similar technologies.”

Paul Bruemmer

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HELPS RANKING

“ I wouldn’t count on that giving you a good ranking boost, although it can be a good idea to markup things in a rich structure just because, you

know…”

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“I wouldn’t necessarily count on that giving you any sort of ranking boost…I’m not going to take it off the table” – Matt Cutts

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Syntax and Vocabulary 5

MOST POPULAR SEMANTIC SEO

Sending detailed

information about the

meaning of your page

content to search engines

and other data consumers

in a way that can be easily

processed by computers.

– Good-relations.org

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WORTH KNOWING

Syntax and Vocabulary 6

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SCHEMA.ORG 8

Bookmark it

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DYI SCHEMA 10

Bookmark it

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LOCAL BUSINESS 11

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LOCAL RELEVANCE

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Structured Markup for relevance to enhance local user experience

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Semantic SEO as part of your internal search

INTERNAL SEARCH USE 14

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Semantic Web for SEO & Social via OpenGraph

SOCIAL MEDIA 15

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MORE ITEMS IN OG? 17

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OPENGRAPH FACEBOOK API 18

Bookmark it

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KNOWLEDGE GRAPH 19

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

Semantic Web is now a Best Practice

Test on small batch. Demonstrate value. Show how it is done

Identify right schema for your vertical

Think about changes to apply Schema at CMS level

Communicate to dev. and content important data fields you need

Explain the changes in site architecture

Don’t leave schema to dev. Decide what you want to do

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WP SEO Plugin | Yoast

Schema Creator Tool | Raven SEO

WP Schema Creator | Raven SEO

Rich Snippet Not Appearing | Google Webmaster Help

Google – Rich Snippet help form

Opengraph Overview | Facebook Developers

Ecommerce Semantic SEO | Good Relations

OTHER RESOURCES 22

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THANKS 23

Frederic Chanut

Managing Director, In Marketing We Trust

Twitter: @InMkgWeTrust

Slideshare: InMktgWeTrust