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 .
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
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 ?
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.
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. :)