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Posted: April 12 2009 at 6:50am | IP Logged
techniner wrote:
SEO Tips & Tricks
This article covers TITLE TAGS, MAIN BODY CONTENT, and META TAGS (which is what you see below).
Search engines give more importance to some items in their ranking
algorithms. Following is a list of what items are given the most
importance to items that have the least importance, in search engine
rankings.
TITLE . 2.0
LINK POPULARITY . 2.0
THE MAIN BODY TEXT . 1.5
DOMAIN NAME . 1.0
KEYWORD PROMINENCE . 1.0
HEADING TAGS . 0.5
PROXIMITY OF KEYWORDS . 0.5
BOLD or ITALIC . 0.4
FOLDER or FILENAME . 0.3
META DESCRIPTION . 0.3
ALT TAG . 0.2
TITLE ATTRIBUTE . 0.2
META KEYWORDS . 0.1 TOTAL HIGHEST SCORE POSSIBLE = 10
TITLE TAG . 2.0/10
The title tag is an important part of a website. It is basically a
short description of the page, and the most important words should go
first. Every HTML (web page) should have a title tags and all tags
should be unique. It is recommended that you do not use the same tags
for multiple documents. Some tips to keep in mind when creating title
tags are:
It should always appear immediately after the opening <HEAD> tag
It should be specific keywords and phrases
If you use the same keyword
twice, do not use it right next to each other. (eg. <title>
Professional Marketing Tips . Tips On Marketing>), and do not use
one word more than twice.
Titles should be between 5-12 words (less than 60 characters).
Place primary keyword at the starting of the tag.
Try to minimize/eliminate the use of commas in this tag.
Strive for a keyword density of 25-35% for each keyword.
Always remember to close the tag (</title>)
All pages MUST have a unique and descriptive keyword phrase in the title.
Do not change the tag regularly.
THE MAIN BODY TEXT . 1.5/10
Use the following tips to increase the effectiveness of the main body
text. These tips also cover Keyword prominence (1.0/10), Heading Tags
(0.5/10), Proximity of Keywords (0.5/10), Bold or Italic (0.4/10), and
Alt Tag (0.2/10)
Make sure to put the most important keywords into a carefully crafted paragraph at the beginning of your HTML Page
Keyword Density: If the
page contains less than 500 words, keeping 1-3% of those words is
better. If the page contains more than 500 words, keep 3-5% of the
overall content.
Try to keep the word count of anywhere between 250 to 750 words per page.
Use CSS instead of font tags
Get rid of JavaScript in the code, and instead use an external file.
Keep image buttons as text links, or have image and text links.
Repeat page title in a heading at the top of the page, if possible.
Use heading tags (<h1>, <h2>, <h3>., <h6>). You can alter the way these tags look via CSS.
Keyword proximity: It
refers to the closeness between two or more keywords, Always try to
group words together that might be searched on as a single phrase by a
user.
Place some important keywords in Bold or Italic.
Use Alt tag to describe images.
Make sure the code of the homepage is not greater than 32k.
Try to keep max font size 11px or 12px. (2 or 3 in most web programs).
Avoid the use of nested loops in <table> structure.
Use W3C technologies and guidelines
Update your body text at regular intervals, as many search engines prefer websites which are updated regularly
METATAGS -
Meta Description (0.3/10), Meta Keywords (0.1/10)
Meta Description
Write it in sentence structure
Should be relevant to the similar 25-30 words (under 150 characters) description of the first text on the visible page.
Do not repeat keywords more than 3 times in the description tag, or use different forms of the keyword.
Minimize the use of stop words such as "and", "the", "of", etc.
Keyword phrases that appear earliest in the Meta description will generally receive higher ranking value.
Try to include this tag in all pages by describing the content, and try to be unique in all descriptions.
Don't fill your descriptions with only keywords.
Strive for 5-10% keyword density.
MetaKeywords
Keep it less than 130 characters for better results.
Start with the most important then least important.
Use keywords/phrases.
Do not repeat any one word more than three (3) times.
Do not place repeated keywords together.
Use keywords that will be actually found on the page, and ones that reflect the essence of your content.
Try to use small case in keyword/phrases
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Posted: April 19 2009 at 11:49am | IP Logged
Great Post! I like the breakdown. I am confused why a description would get a lower point rating though as I find it rather important when gaining position in the SERPS that the title and description play a major role in placement when you provide quality links.
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Posted: April 24 2009 at 4:31am | IP Logged
iTEAM.net wrote:
wolfe wrote:
should a 'front page' not use frames as far as using
content for search engines? website im working on is pretty much
graphical on main page.also,which frame of main page should i alter to
utilize the content if it is doable.
Hi,
Using frames on a homepage is not good for search engine optimization.
Try to avoid them whenever possible. When the search engine spiders the
page it has nowhere to go.
Search engines have trouble following frames, and they may only index the framed content page and not the navigation frame.
Indeed........avoid frames, excess use of tables, images, flash, javascript as it troubles for googlebot to crawl your webage......
The article are really important for those who are new comers in search engine optimization. I'll bookmark this post for reference and improvement purposes.
Are those tips and tricks applicable to all search engines? Because I think every search engines have their own unique algorithm measurement guidelines.< id="gwProxy" ="">< ="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" ="">
Okay, but I've got another good question. What item counts the most for SEO: alot of great content on many different pages on your web site or a lot of good high PR links to your web site?
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