Using rich snippets with a CMS?

[iain]

My site uses the webEdition CMS that is split between templates and documents (pages). A template responsible for a number of documents. If I wish to use rich snippets, how and where can I add the microdata as I can't do it on a page per page basis?

My CMS documentation and its developer forum doesn't give any information on this but I'm hoping its a common problem for open source CMS's and there is an easy fix.

I live in hope!

Iain

[Keszi]

Hi Iain,

First of all, there are 3 types of rich snippets markup formatting:

1. Microdata
2. Microformats
3. RDFa

Now Google says on their Rich Snippets page that they recommend the first one (Microdata)

In your case, in order to have apply the rich snippets you will need to edit the templates of your CMS.

For example if you want to add the review for a page you will mark-up the correct dynamic code that displays your reviews.

I am not really familiar with webEdition, but if you need help, shoot me a private message and we'll figure it out together, ok?

Greetings,

Istvan

btw: the example from Google's people rich snippet

My name is Bob Smith, but people call me Smithy. Here is my home page:
[www.example.com](http://www.example.com).
I live in Albuquerque, NM and work as an engineer at ACME Corp.
My friends:
[Darryl](http://darryl-blog.example.com),
[Edna](http://edna-blog.example.com)

it should look like:

```

  My name is Bob Smith, 
  but people call me Smithy.
  Here is my homepage: 
  [www.example.com](http://www.example.com).
  I live in 
  Albuquerque, 
    NM 
  and work as an engineer
  at ACME Corp.
  My friends:
  [Darryl](http://darryl-blog.example.com), 
  [Edna](http://edna-blog.example.com)

```

```

Now your job, in order to have it with your CMS is to find the code that outputs this and mark-up the code itself with correct microdata information.