Myself and a colleague were discussing microformats today and we started wandering off on a tangent about the following.
Would microformats be the way forward to mark defined areas of a web page for the sake of search engine spiders? When anyone looks at a web page the instinctively break it into navigation, content, advertisements etc. What if we had standard names (microformats) to wrap these areas in to work in conjunction with the sitemaps.org standard in aiding the spiders to differentiate between the content area and, say, text-ads area. You could then delve deeper into the XML file of your sitemap and tell it visit certain pages every day and then specify which section of that page they should concentrate on. I'd be interested in hearing if this a good use of microformats and whether it's worth pursuing. Regards, Dave Mead _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
