Comments on: Technical SEO Issues for Developers

By: Nishan Khednah

Nishan Khednah — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:39:44 +0000

Great stuff. This has been so useful to me. Thanks for all this coverage its much appreciated. :)

By: Joe Hall

Joe Hall — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:40:51 +0000

I am glad to hear someone talk about MicroFormats, I think that we will see an expanded use of them soon especially with Enhanced Listings.

By: Jen Lopez

Jen Lopez — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:36:21 +0000

Lisa: Funny! I wonder what that makes me? Technical SEO is my strong point AND I’m a smart ass. But you have mad blogging skills. I tried at Pubcon and utterly failed! Thanks again, looking forward to a week of great info from you.

By: Patrick Sexton

Patrick Sexton — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:25:58 +0000

Christy, I am Pat and here are some answers to those questions…

What are CSS tabs?
These are tabs made via css rather than images, some examples here:
http://unraveled.com/projects/css_tabs/

What are MicroFormats and RDF?
Microformats – These are code that basically can be read by humans and machines, a great description can be found here..
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/05/04/microformats-what-they-are-and-how-to-use-them/

RDF – stands for Resource Description Framework:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/01/24/rdf.html

Knee sock obsession:
Lisa will have to answer that, but me and Lisa have a website kneesockz.com where she has photos of her in all ofher knee socks, as in dozens and dozens of knee socks, to learn more about her obsession I suggest:
http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2009/01/23/lisa-barone-is-a-raging-knee-sock-fanatic
or you can search Google for “sock fanatic” and it will take to the same article about her :) (really)

By: Todd Weise

Todd Weise — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:19:09 +0000

Christy, CSS Tabs are UI/interface “devices” that allow a developer/designer to provide multiple “panels” of content on a page, without having to refresh the whole page (example: http://stilbuero.de/jquery/tabs_3/).

Using Tabs, we can output content into an HTML document (good for crawlers), but using the CSS and Javascript cabilities that browsers give us, we can control the experience the user has with that content and show them a little at a time.

A tab is obviously a visual device, you can use the same technique using other visual devices, but the key is that the content is within the HTML document itself when the server delivers it back to the browser.

Microformats are HTML conventions/patterns developers can use behind the scenes of a page to give the content more meaning. (http://microformats.org/wiki/what-are-microformats)

By: Mario P

Mario P — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:18:21 +0000

Christy ,

See:
Re: css tabs http://htmldog.com/articles/tabs/

Microformat is an approach to semantic markup that seeks to re-use existing xhtml tags to denote certain attributes that can be later scanned/used by software such as location, calendar data etc. It’s a way of making more with existing data in a way. Same with RDF, it makes more clear code by using existing code snippets.

Re: knee sock obsession I wouldn’t know other than that they look cute!

Thanks for the cover Lisa, even if we in the same room

By: Christy Correll

Christy Correll — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:39:53 +0000

Yes, many thx to Lisa for the live-blogging, and to @jennita for letting me know about it! Really appreciate the efforts of both you ladies :)

That said, I have a few questions:
1) What are CSS tabs? (I am on the marketing, not dev, side of SEO and am just starting to learn CSS.)
2) What are MicroFormats and RDF?
3) Why/how the knee sock obsession?

@denverish

By: Lisa Barone

Lisa Barone — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:14:37 +0000

Jen: I can guarantee you that I understood very little. Technical SEO is not my strong point. Being a smart ass is. Thanks for the comment, though. :)

By: Jen Lopez

Jen Lopez — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:44:16 +0000

Thanks Lisa! This is a great way to keep up with the conference without being there. Seems to me like you understood quite well what they were talking about. Much appreciated!
@jennita