Mark Up Languages - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about mark up languages.
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Structured Data First Steps: Adding Schema Location Markup to Your Website
- by Carrie Hill, Search Engine Watch, October 16, 2012. "Markup and microformats are becoming extremely important to local rankings. Schema.org was created last year to create a common language between major search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo that identifies types of content given to search engines via websites. We are just on the cusp of the possibilities with schema, but the reality is, if you don’t start now, you're going to be behind.
We'll start with the basics: adding schema markup to the address on your website or blog. If your business is location or service area dependent, having an address on your website is imperative..."
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How To Use Rich Snippets, Structured Markup For High Powered SEO
- by Eric Enge. Search Engine Land, November 7, 2011. "I recently received a question from a reader asking about the way search engines were using microformats and other forms of structured markup.
Today, I am going to address that topic from the perspective of its impact on SEO. What is particularly interesting about this topic is that structured markup provides publishers a way to provide the search engines information about their website(s)..."
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Employing Microformats & Structured Data For Enhanced Search Engine Visibility
- by Aaron Bradley. Search Engine Land, September 29, 2011. "With the introduction of the schema.org vocabulary, much attention has been focused on the benefits of employing structured data for improved visibility in the search engines.
The mostly widely cited and easily verifiable of these benefits is the generation of rich snippets: a specially formatted search result block that includes information specific to the type of resource being referenced.
Might there be other SEO benefits to using structured data?..."
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Schema.org
- "This site provides a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search engines including Bing, Google and Yahoo! rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages..."
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Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Draft Published
- W3C, 3 December 2009. "The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0. he primary goal of this document is to bring the advantages of Web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice response applications. VoiceXML 3.0 is a modular XML language for creating interactive media dialogs that feature synthesized speech, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, telephony, mixed initiative conversations, and recording and presentation of a variety of media formats including digitized audio, and digitized video..."
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Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Published
- W3C, 2 June 2009. "The Voice Browser Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0. VoiceXML 3.0 is a modular XML language for creating interactive media dialogs that feature synthesized speech, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, telephony, mixed initiative conversations, and recording and presentation of a variety of media formats including digitized audio, and digitized video. The primary goal of this version 3.0 is to bring the advantages of Web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice response applications..."
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Markup as a Craft
- By Garrett Dimon. Digital Web Magazine, January 8, 2007. "Markup is the technical foundation of front-end code. In one way or another, it influences or is influenced by design, content, accessibility, CSS, DOM scripting, and more. The quality of your markup will affect the quality of related code, and even the cost of implementing or maintaining that code. Your markup might be good now, but following the guidelines in this article will help bring it to the next level..."
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Guidelines for creating better markup
- by Roger Johansson. 456 Berea St, April 12, 2007. "... a list of what I think are the six most important guidelines for writing better markup..."
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Last Call: VoiceXML 2.1
- W3C, 15 September 2006. "The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1. Comments are welcome through 6 October. Fully backwards-compatible with VoiceXML 2.0, version 2.1 standardizes eight additional features implemented by VoiceXML platforms: data, disconnect, grammar, for each, mark, property, script, and transfer. Refer to the summary for changes since Candidate Recommendation, including modification of the foreach element. Visit the voice browser home page..."
This category last updated: 17 October 2012