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Martin,

I own a Web 3.0 discussion Group on LinkedIn. Can you give me a link to a
news item or so (with this mail as content) which I can post in the group?
Love to do some marketing for you guys.

Regards,

Gert Mentens

Van: goodrelations-bounces at ebusiness-unibw.org
[mailto:goodrelations-bounces at ebusiness-unibw.org] Namens Steven Forth
Verzonden: donderdag 10 december 2009 14:56
Aan: martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org
CC: goodrelations at ebusiness-unibw.org
Onderwerp: Re: [goodrelations] GoodRelations + RDFa have huge impact on
Google Rank and CTR

Game Changing Martin

We need to get this news out there, it will lead to a huge shift in
behaviors. Could be a tipping point for the whole sem web.

Hats off ...

Steven

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Martin Hepp (UniBW)
<martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:

Dear all:

In his talk at the Search Engine Strategies 2009 conference in Chicago this
week, Jay Myers, Lead Web Development Engineer for Best Buy, Co., Inc.,
reported very surprising effects of adding GoodRelations and RDFa to their
products pages:

1. GoodRelations + RDFa improved the rank of the respective pages in Google
tremendously. 

In fact, if you try the query "BestBuy Ferris Bueller" on Google, then the
page

    http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/y/products/7590289/ 

comes on rank # 1 ahead of the much more established page

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Ferris+Bueller%27s+Day+Off+-+DVD/7590289.p?skuId
=7590289
<http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Ferris+Bueller%27s+Day+Off+-+DVD/7590289.p?skuI
d=7590289&id=47476> &id=47476

This indicates a strong effect of GoodRelations + RDFa on Google's
appreciation of a page. It is particularly surprising since the age of a
domain has now a huge influence on ranking in Google (older ones get a much
higher ranking), and the semantically augmented one is only something like
eight weeks old.

2. Jay also reported a 30 % percent (!)  increase in traffic on the BestBuy
stores pages, e.g.

http://stores.bestbuy.com/1895

since they have been augmented by GoodRelations + RDFa rich mark-up. 

3. Yahoo observes a 15% increase in the Click-through-Rate (CTR). 

Nick Cox from Yahoo also recently reported that augmented search results,
e.g. those with GoodRelations / RDFa in Yahoo get a 15 % higher
Click-through-Rate (CTR).

So in short: While better visibility in traditional search engines is of
course not the main intended effect by adding GoodRelations & RDFa rich
mark-up, 
I think these findings are so substantial that any SEO / SEM consultant
should apply it - now!

Patterns for simple copy-and-paste are here:

    http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Rdfa4google

A full cookbook of mark-up recipes is being maintained at

    http://tr.im/cookbook

All developer resources are at

    http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations

Best wishes

Martin Hepp

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e-business & web science research group
universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen

e-mail:  hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org
phone:   +49-(0)89-6004-4217
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twitter: mfhepp

Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data!
=================================================================

Project page:
http://purl.org/goodrelations/

Resources for developers:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations

Webcasts:
Overview - http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/
How-to   - http://vimeo.com/7583816

Recipe for Yahoo SearchMonkey:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey

Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: 
"Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology"
http://www.slideshare.net/mhepp/semantic-webbased-ecommerce-the-goodrelation
s-ontology-1535287

Overview article on Semantic Universe:
http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webma
sters-get-ready.html

Tutorial materials:
ISWC 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in Brief: A Hands-on
Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey 
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Web_of_Data_for_E-Commerce_Tutorial_ISWC
2009

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