I did an update on this site at the weekend, around the genealogy stuff. I added some structured data on the family tree pages, sometimes called microdata. It's not noticeable to humans but as no humans actually read the site (only me and loads of scraping robots) I thought I'd improve the bits of the site that are just for robots. What this means is adding attributes to the data to more clearly indicate what that content is. So this is not just some text rambling on about some stuff, this is info about a PERSON, and the PERSON has a NAME, and these are their PARENTS and these are their CHILDREN etc. I'm using schema.org/Person 1 for this and have applied it to every page that has a family tree on. So for example the homepage and Dad's page and my page. Apart from Dad and myself we've kept everyone else who is still alive in the family private, so for example the site says he's my dad and I'm his son, but we don't list details for Mum or Kez or Nan or anyone else. For someone whose privacy we don't have to worry about like James Cole Clarke there should be a full set of data. Not sure how or even if someone else can use this data (and I'm not 100% sure it actually works for genealogical data) but there it is. I'll include it here as an illustration
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so now this page has some structured person data on it too... I can tell this by testing this page in Google Webmaster Tools structure data section. If I test the page it says something like
Person
name James Cole [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke)
birthDate [1866](/wiki/#1866)-05-01
deathDate [1938](/wiki/#1938)-08-08
parent
http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/18/james-cole
name James [Cole](/wiki/#cole) CLARKE
birthDate [1824](/wiki/#1824)-07-01
deathDate [1865](/wiki/#1865)-11-28
parent
http://www.clarkeology.com/names/tribe/20/sarah
name Sarah [Tribe](/wiki/#tribe)
birthDate [1824](/wiki/#1824)-05-23
deathDate [1887](/wiki/#1887)-09-05
homeLocation
England
children
http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/53/james-cole
name James Cole CLARKE
birthDate [1888](/wiki/#1888)-09-13
children
http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/54/agnes-sarah
name Agnes Sarah CLARKE
birthDate [1891](/wiki/#1891)-09-18
deathDate [1893](/wiki/#1893)-11-28
children
http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/42/edward-john
name Edward John CLARKE
birthDate [1904](/wiki/#1904)
children
http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/43/sarah-edith
name Sarah Edith CLARKE
birthDate [1908](/wiki/#1908)-08-13
deathDate [1998](/wiki/#1998)-10-13
children
http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/3/ronald-leslie
name Ronald Leslie CLARKE
birthDate [1911](/wiki/#1911)-10-23
deathDate [1982](/wiki/#1982)-10-17
children
http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/44/harry-cecilThere's a problem (no not the boringness of this all) that the top level report from Google Webmaster Tools does not give the same result as individually testing a page. It says Missing: homeLocation for all of them... WAT? homeLocation is not required, and anyway it is there (I added it to try and make the error go away). Also it's not crawling all of my family tree pages, only those I've submitted explicitly. Here's the report:
Page URL,Last Detected,Index,Name,No. of Errors,Errors
names/clarke/14/james+cole,9/3/16,#1 of 1,James Cole CLARKE [1866](/wiki/#1866) - [1938](/wiki/#1938),1,Missing: homeLocation
names/[samways](/wiki/#samways)/17/fanny+alice+grant,9/3/16,#1 of 1,Fanny Alice Grant SAMWAYS [1873](/wiki/#1873) - [1953](/wiki/#1953),1,Missing: homeLocation
names/clarke/1/barry+leslie,9/2/16,#1 of 1,Barry Leslie CLARKE [1947](/wiki/#1947) -,1,Missing: homeLocation
[blog](/wiki/#blog)/14/board.html,9/2/16,#1 of 3,Thomas [VOKES](/wiki/#vokes),1,Missing: homeLocation
blog/14/board.html,9/2/16,#2 of 3,Thomas VOKES,1,Missing: homeLocation
blog/14/board.html,9/2/16,#3 of 3,Thomas VOKES,1,Missing: homeLocation
,9/2/16,#1 of 1,Barry Leslie CLARKE [1947](/wiki/#1947) -,1,Missing: homeLocation
names/[mahon](/wiki/#mahon)/157/clare+[france](/wiki/#france)s,8/25/16,#1 of 1,Clare Frances MAHON [1978](/wiki/#1978) -,0,
names/clarke/437/henry+patrick,8/25/16,#1 of 1,Henry Patrick Clarke [1887](/wiki/#1887) - [1931](/wiki/#1931),0,
names/tribe/20/sarah,8/21/16,#1 of 1,Sarah Tribe [1824](/wiki/#1824) - [1887](/wiki/#1887),0,
names/samways/45/john,8/21/16,#1 of 1,John SAMWAYS [1848](/wiki/#1848) - [1925](/wiki/#1925),0,
m/424,8/20/16,#1 of 1,Barry Leslie CLARKE [1947](/wiki/#1947) -,0,
names/clarke/79/charles+[valentine](/wiki/#valentine),8/20/16,#1 of 1,Charles Valentine CLARKE [1883](/wiki/#1883) - [1912](/wiki/#1912),0,
names/grant/46/matilda,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Matilda GRANT [1853](/wiki/#1853) - [1933](/wiki/#1933),0,
names/clarke/18/james+cole,8/18/16,#1 of 1,James Cole CLARKE [1824](/wiki/#1824) - [1865](/wiki/#1865),1,Missing: homeLocation
names/[rainey](/wiki/#rainey)/41/john+william,8/18/16,#1 of 1,John William RAINEY [1888](/wiki/#1888) - [1945](/wiki/#1945),1,Missing: homeLocation
names/lyman/40/gertrude,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Gertrude LYMAN [1891](/wiki/#1891) - [1973](/wiki/#1973),1,Missing: homeLocation
names/clarke/3/ronald+leslie,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Ronald Leslie CLARKE [1911](/wiki/#1911) - [1982](/wiki/#1982),1,Missing: homeLocation
names/rainey/57/samuel,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Samuel RAINEY [1860](/wiki/#1860) -,1,Missing: homeLocation
names/lyman/689/eliza,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Eliza Lyman [1859](/wiki/#1859) -,1,Missing: homeLocation
names/clarke/7/paul+leslie,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Paul Leslie CLARKE [1972](/wiki/#1972) -,1,Missing: homeLocation
names/[windebank](/wiki/#windebank)/548/simon,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Simon Windebank [1657](/wiki/#1657) -,0,
m/22804,8/16/16,#1 of 1,Thomas VOKES,0,
names/windebank/332/eli,8/15/16,#1 of 1,Eli WINDEBANK [1810](/wiki/#1810) -,0,
m/47,8/15/16,#1 of 1,Charles Valentine CLARKE [1883](/wiki/#1883) - [1912](/wiki/#1912),0,
names/unknown/536/fanny+lillia,8/14/16,#1 of 1,Fanny Lillian [1840](/wiki/#1840) -,0,These guys have the same issue 2, so hopefully it's just some new hiccup and will be resolved soon.
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