Micro Formats for Better Local Search Engine Optimization
Posted by Cincinnati SEO on May 26th, 2009It has been almost two weeks since Google has announced that they are in fact parsing micro formats. This is exciting news for local SEM. Microformats allow for the precise identification of certain data, mainly the address (location), in the source code. Learn more about Micro Formats Also, go to the link and find a handy automatic Hcard creator tool for the not so code savvy.
Yahoo First?
Yahoo has been using microformats openly for months; I would like to point out that in this instance it is Google who is behind the leader for once and Yahoo who has led the way. Either way, detailed tags are great and the continuation of the local algorithm will continue to enhance the effective user ability of the internet in our lives, and that is what it’s all about.
