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When I was first learning to develop websites back in 1999 opening external links in a new window was an accepted technique. But that was 1999 and the 90′s were for the internet what the 80′s were for hair. Since then we have come a long way with web standards, usability, and accessibility. However, like [...]
I know that it will sound cliche, but unique, quality content really is the best way to make your website a success. Even with all of the tweaks to algorithms on the various search engines, it’s obvious that content really is king when it come to SEO. The good thing about that is that content [...]
The nefarious keyword tag has created more confusion and stress in webmasters and SEOs alike than any other meta tag. Endless questions of who supports it, who doesn’t, how many keywords should I use, do I use commas or not, and thousands more are asked on webmaster forums every single day. There have been a [...]
The /robots.txt file is simply a text file on your root directory that tells all “good” robots (the ones that aren’t fishing for email address of other spammy pursuits) what parts of your site to not index. By default all content that is accessible to a search engine spider is considered fair game. Because of [...]
Today were going to talk about something that you may or may not have any control over. The URL structure of your website. I am going to make the assumption that you are using one of the more popular content management systems and give some simple tips for each. If you’re not then I would [...]
One of the main problems that arise when doing SEO, updating content, or when redesigning a site, are URL’s that no longer work. When this happens not only are your customers subjected to broken links, but all search engine value the old page had is lost. Best practice is to take those old URL’s, and [...]
The description meta tag is intended to provide the text search engines should use along with your title when displaying search results. Of course, as with most things in SEO this does not always happen. Many search engines, Google included, will sometimes create their own description that they feel better match the search query. Descriptions [...]
Canonicalization is the term Google uses to describe the process of picking the best URL when there are more than one for the same content. For example the typical website homepage i.e. http://www.sample.com normally has four possible URL’s. Those four links would normally be … http://www.sample.com http://sample.com http://www.sample.com/index.php (or whatever) http://sample.com/index.php So what we have [...]