Hi, I heard about microformat in seo. I need more details about microformat. If anyone knows more. Kindly provide the details of microformat.
A microformat is a web-based approach to semantic markup that seeks to re-use existing XHTML and HTML tags to convey metadata and other attributes. This approach allows information intended for end-users (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, calendar events, and the like) to also be automatically processed by software. Although the content of web pages is technically already capable of "automated processing," and has been since the inception of the web, such processing is difficult because the traditional markup tags used to display information on the web do not describe what the information means. Microformats are intended to bridge this gap by attaching semantics, and thereby obviate other, more complicated methods of automated processing, such as natural language processing or screen scraping. The use, adoption and processing of microformats enables data items to be indexed, searched for, saved or cross-referenced, so that information can be reused or combined. Current microformats allow the encoding and extraction of events, contact information, social relationships and so on. More are being developed. Version 3 of the Firefox browser, as well as version 8 of Internet Explorer are expected to include native support for microformats. Technical example: XHTML and HTML standards allow for semantics to be embedded and encoded within the attributes of markup tags. Microformats take advantage of these standards by indicating the presence of metadata using the following attributes: * class * rel * rev (in one case, otherwise deprecated in microformats) For example, in the text "The birds roosted at 52.48, -1.89" is a pair of numbers which may be understood, from their context, to be a set of geographic coordinates. By wrapping them in spans (or other HTML elements) with specific class names (in this case geo, latitude and longitude, all part of the geo microformat specification): The birds roosted at <span class="geo"> <span class="latitude">52.48</span>, <span class="longitude">-1.89</span> </span> machines can be told exactly what each value represents and can then perform a variety of tasks such as indexing it, looking it up on a map and exporting it to a GPS device. source: wiki
First I have heard of this but I seem to understand the basics of it thanks to the post #4. I have done a little C# programming in my time so it looks like the attributes of the tags are linked to specific ways of processing the data rather than just taking the data at face value it recognises it as a particular type.
Have u heard before Wikipedia? I got the information from there only. You can check here - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat
Currently there is no SEO advantage in using any of these concepts as the SEs don't support them. Today, they just takeup character count.