What are microformats

[avigma]

I have heard about microformats but don't much about them. what are these and how these can be used for seo. what role microformats play in getting high ranking. I am so confused with all these questions. Please help me.

[nathan.joshua]

Microformats provide software with specific information about what it is reading.

There are many forms of Microformats.

In SEO the rel="nofollow" is a microformat. Why is it a microformat? Because rel="nofollow" gives specific information about the link software is reading.


The new craze in Google is 'rich snippets'. Where additional information about a website is displayed in search results next to the corresponding website.

These results can be shown in many different ways. Reviews, Google+ profile image, Votes, Items, Prices, etc.

To learn more about Rich snippets, see this: support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170

To test your rich snippets, see this: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

[hitsandy]

Micro formats are web based communications that explains web data.(If you’re heard of vCard – .vcf files – then you’re already familiar with the concept of microformats, albeit the microformat version is hCard.)

[Faith]

Microformats provide software with specific information about what it is reading.

There are many forms of Microformats.

In SEO the rel="nofollow" is a microformat. Why is it a microformat? Because rel="nofollow" gives specific information about the link software is reading.


The new craze in Google is 'rich snippets'. Where additional information about a website is displayed in search results next to the corresponding website.

These results can be shown in many different ways. Reviews, Google+ profile image, Votes, Items, Prices, etc.

To learn more about Rich snippets, see this: support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170

To test your rich snippets, see this: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Thank you for this information.
I tested the rich snippets for my site and came up with this:

Google search preview
The following errors were found during preview generation:

This page does not contain authorship or rich snippet markup.
Extracted Author/Publisher for this page
Page does not contain authorship markup. Learn more.
Extracted rich snippet data from the page
hfeed

Warning: At least one field must be set for HatomFeed.

hfeed

hentry

Warning: At least one field must be set for HatomEntry.
Warning: Missing required field "entry-title".
Warning: Missing required field "updated".
Warning: Missing required hCard "author".

hentry

Warning: At least one field must be set for HatomEntry.
Warning: Missing required field "entry-title".
Warning: Missing required field "updated".
Warning: Missing required hCard "author".

What can I do to have my site contain authorship, or rich snippets? Thank you in advance for any help.

Faith

[Andra131]

Good information about the subject but what means 'rich snippets'