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

e-mail:  hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org
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Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data!
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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-goodrelations-ontology-1535287

Overview article on Semantic Universe:
http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-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_ISWC2009

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