Board Optimization - [SEO] Add Microdata Breadcrumbs

Hello.
Before you find out what this mod does, you need to have some knowledge of Microdata.

Now its time to take advantage of this wonderful feature; and we will label our breadcrumbs to describe it's type to Google for better understanding and to presenting your site better in Google search result.

In order add microdata tags in our breadcrumb here is what we need to do:

(please take backup of your template before performing following steps)

Step 1:

Find and Replace everything in navbar_link template with the following code:

<vb:if condition="$show['breadcrumb']">
<div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
    <li class="navbit"><a href="{vb:raw nav_url}" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="title">{vb:raw nav_title}</span></a></li>
</div>
<vb:else />
<div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
    <li class="navbit lastnavbit"><span><span itemprop="title">{vb:raw nav_title}</span></span></li>
</div>
</vb:if>

Step 2:

Hit Save button !!

And That's it you are done. Now you just have to wait until Google show your website in search result like this:


Also check following articles for better understanding:

http://support.google.com/webmasters...8472&ctx=topic
http://support.google.com/webmasters...8472&ctx=topic
http://support.google.com/webmasters...8472&ctx=topic


Thank You

[evildon]

That one is really cool.
Applied that to my forum.

Thos who need to check if the code is working or now, try using Google Webmaster Rich Snippets Testing Tool here - http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

[tafreeh]

Thank you for that, but keep in mind that it takes some time to show expected result.
http://support.google.com/webmasters...493#enoughtime

[temsamane]

is this really increasing seo performance?

[tafreeh]

here is a good article that might answer your question:
http://kaidez.com/html5-seo-microdata/

[OldSchoolDSL]

Original 4.1.10 code

<vb:if condition="$show['breadcrumb']">
	<li class="navbit"><a href="{vb:raw nav_url}">{vb:raw nav_title}</a></li>
<vb:else />
	<li class="navbit lastnavbit"><span>{vb:raw nav_title}</span></li>
</vb:if>

Just making a note (public). Am installing this now and will compare the results

[OldSchoolDSL]

Upon 3rd review, not installing.

You'd really need to 1) Change the link to your own site 2) Have re-write rules for this (more so if you're using nginx)

[dtv100]

any chance to post code for vb 3.8 ?

[tarzan22]

ver

http://www.vbseo.com/f2/google-html5-microdata-51974/

[tafreeh]

ooo God.. Well, I m gonna leave it like that still... Maybe something magical happen.
Thanks for the info tho.. I did not pay attention about that.