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Structured data markup

It has been long time enough for developers and webmasters and so called seo experts to do some homework about  structured data markup, have anybody here spotted any improvement on a website search rank after applying this structured data markup ? I mean like if you read a blog or a post or an article , or even had a personal experience with one of your websites , so we can get some review on the effect of using this markup in website vs not using it at all.

I have been reading and asking in google forums about certain technical things related to to avoid getting errors in google test tool , but until this moment i didn't get a direct answer on one simple question , what is the best practice for applying structured data markup on a FORUM software .
Last Edit: March 23, 2017, 08:34:44 am by sherif

Re: Structured data markup

Reply #1 –

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data

I seem to remember @Joshua Dickerson was talking about schema.org a while ago, there should a topic, let me see if I can find it.

ETA: there are at least 2:
http://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=2985.0
http://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=1844.0
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Re: Structured data markup

Reply #2 –

For some reason those topics has never grow into a detailed discussion, which I am trying to achieve here.
Since major known open source cms & forums have this markup already , why ElkArte ignored it ?
QuoteWhat is Google schema?
Schema.org is the centralized home on the web for the Schema project, a collaboration between Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Russian search engine Yandex (the one trying out search without links) to standardize structured markup. Mar 20, 2014
So its not only some google crap , it affects website search rank in those mentioned search engines as well .
If some users -including me- need to apply these tags in ElkArte , then there should be some topic here about which tags are suitable for a Forum , and what is the best way to insert these tags and keep them on even after upgrades
and that's why i posted that comparison table here in first post , to show what the others doing about it.

Re: Structured data markup

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Quote from: sherif – Since major known open source cms & forums have this markup already , why ElkArte ignored it ?
Do you want the honest answer or the fake one?
If the first: because nobody stood up to implement it? :)

Of course if you have ideas and you can suggest where to put what, it would be a huge step towards the implementation, because one thing is add "something" somewhere in the code, another is spend a lot of time reading documentation.
On the subject, I can do the first, but not the second. :)
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