What is Schema.org?

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What is Schema.org?

Jiteendra Sampathirao · Answer

Hi suthish.. Nice post...

Suthish Nair · Answer

Ok.. i think in future all the companies will implement these standards in their websites.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Of course I am being only partially serious. Seriously speaking, what I meant is that developers do what they are told. It is my point that the people that tell the programmers what to do that would be concerned about the marketing issues. Please however don't take that too seriously.

Suthish Nair · Answer

But, if a site needs to be " recognized by major search providers" then the developers need to include these schemas and html tags into their sites.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

It is a marketing thing. Developers don't need to be concerned about it. The site " provides a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search engines including Bing, Google and Yahoo! rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, "....

Vulpes · Answer

Ah, so you did. I wondered why the text was blue ;)

Suthish Nair · Answer

yes.. i just posted it as a link only.

Vulpes · Answer

Well, it's the first I'd heard of it but evidently it's a new organization which has been launched this month and jointly sponsored by (the unlikely bed-fellows) of Bing, Google and Yahoo. Its purpose is to create a 'structured data markup schema' for web pages to help these search engines to produce better search results. For further info, check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema.org http://schema.org/docs/faq.html#0

What is Schema.org?

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