Half’s SEO Notebook

Just think of annotations like a del.icio.us or FURL save. Every annotation then consists of URL you want to save, and tags. For example, if I wanted to save cnn.com, the data I’d be saving using del.icio.us would look like this:

• URL: http://www.cnn.com/
• tags: news, liberal-bullshit

All you have to do is translate that into Google Co-op speak:

<Annotation about=”http://www.cnn.com/”>
<Label name=”news”></Label>
<Label name=”liberal_bullshit”></Label>
</Annotation>

You also have the option to specify all urls under a specific directory, or all urls that match a number of keywords, instead of annotating a site page by page. You can also add additional information, like comments and score (only one url per domain will show up per query, so score helps to clarify which URL you prefer). And of course, for annotations to work, they need context. I’ll stop here though, since I need to grab some breakfast, plus I want to stay true to the title of this post.

Google Co-op Annotation references: Google Co-op Topics Developers Guide