[microformats-discuss] Microformat for blog-searchand characterizing

[Björn Seibert]

Good morning,

><title> is usually used for other purposes than solely the name of the
>site. Front pages will have keywords thrown in the <title> for SEO and
>deeper pages will have page names, post titles, keywords, you name it.
><title> is almost never equal to site name.
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But in case of the front page it should be only the title of the 
website/blog. Page topic, keywords and description provide other (SEO) 
information. But I also see a problem in using the <title> because 
unfortunately it's used for other purposes regarding SEO, too.

So there's no other way than placing this piece of information within 
the format. The title-attribute within the achor to the blog, as Robert 
Bachmann submitted, would be a good practice.

<a class="bookmark" href="http://example.org/blog" title="Blog name">Blog name</a>


Björn

>>>"Generator" would be
>>>optional.
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>>Perhaps there could even be a separate "generator" microformat, which would
>>make sense as an annotation on the *visible* "Built with XYZ" images/buttons
>>that people put on their sites.  I think "generator" goes beyond just
>>blogging.
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>You brink up a very good point here. I do not know how many people
>consciously apply generator info to their visible designs. Many
>mainstream packages use <meta name="generator"> to silently mark their
>pages. This bypasses an author tendency to remove programatic
>attribution from their visible designs. I wouldn't count on people to
>design sites with visible generator info. If it's not there by
>default, it probably won't be written in.
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>>>We might also define "founded" and "updated" dates as
>>>optional.
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>>I would suggest looking at the schemas in both ATOM and RSS as far as blog
>>related datetime information.
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>I'll check into that.
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>Thank you,
>Andy Skelton
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