Yahoo's SearchMonkey markup language has helped websites gain more visibility within Yahoo's search results.  I would like to see an easy integration of this markup language, possibly via a Yes/No switch in the Admin dashboard.

The service is free from Yahoo.

http://developer.search.yahoo.com/help/objects/product

AmeriCommerce has quoted this at approximately $1050.  Is anyone else interested in DevShare?

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Dave

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AC,

This should be a FREEBIE to us all. Anything that helps us get better indexation adds to your SEO offering, and to our revenue, which keeps us in business, which makes us happy AC customers.

 

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It appears Yahoo's SearchMonkey has died with the addition of Bing organic results. http://www.ysearchblog.com/2010/08/17/news-about-our-searchmonkey-program

It appears RDFa and Microformats will be the method moving forward.

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Dave

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Dave:

It appears Yahoo's SearchMonkey has died with the addition of Bing organic results. http://www.ysearchblog.com/2010/08/17/news-about-our-searchmonkey-program

It appears RDFa and Microformats will be the method moving forward.

This was our fear.  Be sure to add the other formats to http://myamericommerce.com/vote.aspx so other members can vote on it.  And if needed be able to pull a devshare together if it needs to be rushed through.  The new feature voting arena is where we will be pulling all of this together and looking for what the community wants us to do and how bad they want us to do it.

http://myamericommerce.com/vote.aspx

 

 

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Dave:

It appears RDFa and Microformats will be the method moving forward.

Google officially announced support of Rich Snippets for eCommerce sites: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/11/rich-snippets-for-shopping-sites.html

PLEASE consider adding this markup as a feature before the holiday shopping season.  I have suggested it for voting:  http://vote.americommerce.com/forums/25843-feature-ideas/suggestions/1191343-add-google-s-rich-snippets-product-markup

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the link you gave seems to indicate your snippets will go up if you submit your products via a feed to google base. Ac provides that fucntionality natively, so indirectly it looks liek you should be good.

I strongly urge everyone to submit to google base/shopping/froogle/whatever they call it now .. a real important source of traffic for us

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Two negatives with using the Google Shopping feeds for rich snippets.

1.  AC does not support external imaging for Product Feeds.  (This excludes us immediately)

2.  Google wants canonical tags on product pages. (This also excludes us)

Note: Product page canonical tags can now be implemented by adding <link rel="canonical"  ##ITEMFULLURL## /> to each product's Head Tags (meta) box.

"For Google to make use of Merchant Center feeds for rich snippets, you should also use the rel=”canonical” link element on your product pages. By adding rel=”canonical” to your pages, Google can match the URLs in your feed to the pages found by our crawler."

 

The benefit of hard coded RDFa Rich Snippets should be seen across all search engines soon, regardless of feed availability, or quality.  The semantic web is coming, so we might as well jump on board.

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Dave

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The semantic web of structured data is coming.  Here is another blog post regarding Google's recent increase in use of structured data: Structured Data Poised to Influence SERP Position

It would benefit all AC customers to have structured data tags built into the platform.  GoodRelations is a format adopted by Google for ecommerce sites to markup product page data.

Google Webmaster Central: Product Properties: Using GoodRelations markup

GoodRelations homepage

This is becoming increasingly important in the search landscape as search engines look for better ways to aggregate and display data.

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Until AC adds this as a feature, what is the easiest way for us to do it manually?

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Dave

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Dave, did you write an entry for this in the voting?  I think this is going to be an excellent opportunity for both AC to differentiate and for clients to get better indexing and traffic. 

Hi jlk,

It appears I forgot to include the link.  You can vote here:  http://vote.americommerce.com/forums/25843-feature-ideas/suggestions/1191343-add-google-s-rich-snippets-product-markup

I wouldn't mind throwing my hat into a dev-share if others are willing to help out.

 

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I just voted a few points towards it.  The markup itself is not tremendously difficult if you use GoodRelations but it does seem that the doc type in the header and some other elements need to change which are hard coded into AC's template.  Having the markup within the code of AC would surely get them some recognition within the semantic community and be a big competitive advantage for them.  I don't know of any hosted solution that is thinking about this stuff right now.

AC, any further development here?  Would you consider adding rich snippets to the code?  I know of some other CMS and ecommerce systems that are now doing it and it seems to be helping with rankings quite a bit.

+1 on this. integratin on markup languages will find useful on today's task.