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SEO using MicroFormat

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

MicroFormat is a way of using standard HTML tags to encode additional information into the page. This could be Geo data, calendar data, etc…
Example
In this example, the contact information is presented as follows:
<div>
<div>Joe Doe</div>
<div>The Example Company</div>
<div>604-555-1234</div>
<a href=”http://example.com/”>http://example.com/</a>
</div>
With hCard microformat markup, that becomes:
<div class=”vcard”>
<div class=”fn”>Joe Doe</div>
<div class=”org”>The Example Company</div>
<div class=”tel”>604-555-1234</div>
<a class=”url” href=”http://example.com/”>http://example.com/</a>
</div>
These specs are evolving [...]