Goodrelations Presentation from SemTech 2010

SEO, RDF and GoodRelations An Implementation by a Major Industry Online Retailer Martin Hepp Email mhepp@computer.org Twitter @mfhepp Skype mfhepp Web http://purl.org/goodrelations/

What’s SEO, Really? 2

1. Being visible for potential buyers 3

2. Articulating the value proposition But: Often flattened to just the price tag… 4

3. For a large number of items Example Number of Products BestBuy > 400 k Amazon > 4 Mio. Typical small shops 1 … 10 k items 5

Semantic SEO Using product master data to articulate your value proposition over the Web 6

Semantic SEO: Immediate Effects •  Improved Yahoo Rendering •  Google Price Info •  Ranking / Information Entropy 7

Semantic SEO: Near-term Effects •  Linking Datasheets & Offers •  Linking Offers & Location Info •  Semantic Affiliate Marketing 8

How-to: Shop Recipe •  Put basic RDFa in "about" page •  Put RDFa template into "item" page template •  Make sure you have a sitemap.xml •  Extensions –  Data dump in RDF/XML –  Exposing own categories & feature vocabulary 9

Effort •  15 – 30 lines of additional markup per template •  Data mapping •  Validation •  Quality control 10

Page Size and Loading Time: No Problem Main Page (KB) Product Item Page (KB) HTML Total HTML Total Regular BestBuy Amazon 102 187 815 736 236 286 1536 712 Pages eBay 54 445 75 849 Mean 114 665 199 1032 Main Page Product Item Page Increase Minimal HTML 1,40% Total 0,24% HTML 1,31% Total 0,25% by GoodRelations Full 2,19% 0,38% 3,22% 0,62% in RDFa With Features n/a n/a 6,03% 1,16% 11

Experiences •  Relatively straightforward to do •  Easy, if site / templates are already up-to- date –  Valid Markup: XHTML / HTML 5 –  sitemap.xml 12

Conclusion •  Use SEO & SearchMonkey effect to justify effort now •  Practically no impact on page speed & traffic •  One type of markup serves current SEO, Yahoo, Google, and the Web 3.0 13

Resources •  GoodRelations Snippet Generator –  http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/grsnippetgen/ •  GoodRelations Quickstart Guide –  http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelationsQuickstart •  Magento Extension –  http://bit.ly/cZEVQV 14

Contact Martin Hepp Email mhepp@computer.org Twitter @mfhepp Skype mfhepp Web http://purl.org/goodrelations/ 15

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Goodrelations Presentation from SemTech 2010

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