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(Entry was posted by Steve Boni on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/04/2014).

Where is the best place to learn about microformats?

Are microformats important?  Are they the same as schema?
Where is the best place to learn about this??
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  • Steve Bonin: Are microformats important?  ;Are they the same as schema?
    Where is the best place to learn about this?
  • Bhupendra Rathore: learn it from here ... http://schema.org/
  • Steve Bonin: +Bhupendra Rathore ;Thanks
  • Andy Wigglesworth: There are three types...

    RDFa
    Microformats
    Schema

    Schema being the newest, we were talking about this in our hangout yesterday, while Google may or may not use any of this data, it is a good idea to implement.
  • Neeraj Kumar: I have seen that google #webmaster test all the three. However could not decide which one is best and should we use all the three or only one of them in a single website or blog! Can you help, +Andy Wigglesworth !
  • Andy Wigglesworth: I personally would recommend Schema.org - they seem to be actively updating it quite often!
  • Joseph Paulino: As quoted from support[dot]google[dot]com/webmasters/answer/1211158?hl=en: "schema[dot]org is a collaboration by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! to improve the web by creating a structured data markup schema supported by major search engines."
  • W.E. Jonk: Since it is +Tim Capper ;'s plan for 2014, I would go for it.... However Tim makes a great point about howto track conversions from it:

    https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/whats_your_seo_plan_for_2014
  • W.E. Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 01:21:00 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/where_is_the_best_place_to_learn_about_microformats

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