Basic Search Engine Optimisation Tips

[elmerpc]

Thanks for the excellent tips Temi. I think your list is all about on-page optimisation?

[NickE83]

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[johnafrankllin]

I would like to do some corrections

1. Use Meta tags correctly; here is a basic skeleton of the minimum aspect of meta tags you should complete:
Title:

Title is not a meta tag

5. Try and valid you HTML tags and eliminate any errors

3. The two sites I had a look at today, use image navigation, this is not bad BUT if your navigation is text based, its even better.
If you must use image-based navigation use Alt Attribute rather than alt tag, if you use images then adding the alt attribute is a waste of time (from an SEO point of view but not a usability one), unless the image is a link. If the image is a link then the alt attr text becomes the anchor text. (Thanks to OWG for correcting this).
use alt tags to optimise each navigation item.

How will you validate the HTML according W3 if you are not using Alt.
Also if you just put Alt="" to validate the HTML, I think this is what the waste of time.
Also never forget that the Text in Alt attribute do crawled by search engine spiders. check the cached page's "Cached Text" of any web page. You will find the Text in Alt Tag.
I'll Say that Alt is a Tag
reference: <alt>descriptive text goes here</alt>

[camp185]

Here is a site I like to use to check meta tags. It also has many other great functions.

Meta Tag Analyzer

[kavitakarki]

Hello temi,
Its Nice posting Thanks for it temi.

[Handsome]

Thanks Temi but i can't understand the point number 10

whats that?

[cheekyman]

Hi There,
After creating websites for a number of years!
I have found three main factors to be considered:
Title
Description
Image Alt Tags

The Title shows up in the search engine as the main heading of the searched topic.
Then the Description below should have keywords inserted relating to the main Title.
Image Alt Tags should always be filled in for Image Banks/Searches your website will show up with the image location.

PDF’s: It’s the Title of the PDF that’s shown in Google, on the search page it might come under another heading.
Forums are the same: It’s the Title of the thread that appears in the search.
The tab in the browser shows the Title to each page!
The way to check is to view the source of the page and you’ll find the Title again relates to the search.
Regarding keywords: I have never found a search especially in Google based on keywords alone! The keywords appear in the Title every time.
(I read years ago that Google disregards Meta Keywords and have always found this to be true)
The “Title & Description” must be inserted into every page relating to the contents of that particular page.

Cheekyman

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[Robdale]

Simple Tip....

Try to make a search engine friendly design according to the tips given on Google Webmaster Guidelines.