If all you care about is SEO then do whatever Google says to do ... • Aaron Parecki

Aaron Bradley https://twitter.com/aaranged • Jan 22
I know that you're a huge microformats fan Kevin, but among other things: 1) they're not remotely expressive enough for contemporary structured data requirements; 2) they're HTML-bound, meaning you can't provide data like this https://developers.google.com/actions/media/how-to/create-a-feed

If all you care about is SEO then do whatever Google says to do this year and you're fine. Today that's JSON-LD, tomorrow it's ???? I need to update this chart for 2020 but as we see, history keeps repeating itself. https://aaronparecki.com/2016/12/17/8/owning-my-reviews#historical-recommendations

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Wed, Jan 22, 2020 8:35am -08:00

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- Joe Crawford
Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- nystudio107 twitter.com/nystudio107
  
  When I think of "simple, reusable markup" it's JSON-LD, and not microformats, FWIW It's simple, highly reusable, and also unlike microformats, also scales, is highly readable, lacks the bidirectional fragility of microformats, and can easily be generated programmatically
  
  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 4:47pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  Frankly "linked data" is not a priority for me. There's plenty of useful structured data that is not LD, and tbh most developers who use JSON-LD don't even know about the LD part, they just copy the examples and wonder why they have "@context" everywhere
  
  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 4:43pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Kevin Marks twitter.com/kevinmarks
  
  I don't care about SEO, I care about simple, reusable markup with actual user needs and usecases. Hence h-feed and microformats, not custom cruft for each silo kevinmarks.com/partialsilos.h…
  
  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 4:42pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- nystudio107 twitter.com/nystudio107
  
  JSON-LD is the way. 😀
  
  Wed, Jan 22, 2020 4:41pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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