Which one should I use Schema.org or Microformats.org

[FisnikSylka]

Hi,

I would like to know which one is better to use Schema.org or Microformats.org

My CMS doesn't support Schema.org attributes, I can only use Microformats.org documentation, but I wanted to knwo if Schema.org is better one, so I will change my CMS and use another one.

[Devanur-Rafi]

Hi there,

There is nothing that you will be losing if you use the markup by microformats.org. However, to the possible extent, try to use schema.org as it is the standard that the 3 biggies in Search Engine landscape (Google, Microsoft and Yahoo) have come-up with. For more,

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1211158

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

[FisnikSylka]

Thanks Rafi, I was just reading it, I found that Google Support some markup of both of them, however google is giving more value to Schema markup.

Thanks

[Devanur-Rafi]

You are most welcome my friend. Your point is true to some extent as they want to bring in an uniformity in this case and they may tend to be biased towards the new standard a little bit so as to push it hard towards being widely accepted. So if you can, please switch over to the markup by schema.org or if lot of work has already been put in to this, you can just leave it as it is. Personally, I would switch over to the new standard by all possible means if there were a chance.

Good luck.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

[FisnikSylka]

Thnx again Rafi, I will need at first to use only microformats.org markup till I change my CMS to support Schema.org attributes, better to have one microdata than none.

Best regards

[Devanur-Rafi]

No problem friend. If you remember the same happened with XML sitemaps standard. In the beginning there would be little resistance but going forward, the standards will be accepted and respected!!

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.