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A Day in the Life of a quest engine kindly Web Page
In a previous description (which I cannot link to here) I wrote that a hunt engine cordial website is not the same as a hunt engine optimized website. I'm using that as a jump off point for this description on the topic of construction a hunt engine cordial website. The purpose is to plainly highlight a few of the aspects that include a Se cordial (not necessarily optimized) website.
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The Domain Name
For this series I figured we'd start at the top: the domain name. Many argue about the value of using keywords in the domain name and whether that will make any difference at all in the ranking algorithms. My opinion is if it does make a difference, it's not much. But I also believe that the full process of optimization is largely about doing a whole lot of "not much".
The smartest thing to do is make sure your enterprise name uses your keywords. And no, I don't mean you should name your enterprise No Doc Home Mortgage Loans Company. But if you sell mortgages it makes sense to use mortgages in your name, being sure you can procure the domain name as well.
Since there is truly not a lot you can do to "optimize" your domain or even make it hunt engine cordial so I'll leave you with links to series of articles I've written previously on Securing a Marketing Rich Domain Name. That'll give you some food for thought.
Title and Meta Tags
To reiterate again, I'm making a difference here in the middle of "search engine optimized" and "search engine friendly." They are two very separate things. making your website hunt engine cordial is largely a one-time task, while optimization of that website is an ongoing process. But in order to be effective with the optimization, your site must first be hunt engine friendly.
This installment I'll focus on the Title and meta tags, most specifically the description meta, but this can include the keyword meta, though that one is largely irrelevant.
I can pretty much sum up hunt friendliness of the Title tag and meta description as being two things
They are present
They are unique
You might be surprised to find how how often amount one is not done, even by experienced web developers. About a year ago we signed a client for Seo only to find that their programmers did not originate a way to schedule a unique title for each page. But it gets worse. They didn't even schedule a way to add any text whatsoever into the title tag. Their code looked like this:
One of the first changes we requested was to add a title to their pages to which they told us that such functionality is not ready and it will take a few months before the programmers can add that functionality. Can we say, "Your Fired?"
They chose not to fire their programmers so we fired them!
Many ecommerce systems we see use a global title tag over all pages. Well, step one is complete, the title is present. But now each of those titles needs to be unique for each page in order to accurately describe the content of the private page each is on.
When working with a database system, the smartest (read: most hunt engine friendly) thing to do is not to just make the title and meta tags editable for each page, but to allow for unique default verbiage to be automatically generated for the pages until keyword optimized text is created.
When seeing a possible client's website the other day we were involved when we saw that the title tags of each page looked to be typical default text. We contacted the developers to find out if these were editable and sure enough, they gave me the retort I was seeing for. They are editable for each page but default text is in place until those fields are edited by the client. Perfect!
If you don't use a e-commerce law for your website then you plainly want to go add unique title tags, description tags and possible keyword tags to each page. Don't worry so much about using keywords, that'll be your Seo's job, but for now, just make these elements hunt engine cordial by getting them in place.
Code Bloat
Code bloat is one of my minor amusements when I'm evaluating websites. I enjoy seeing at the source code of a web page and then scrolling down to see how long the code for the page is and mentally compare it to how long it should be. What I truly enjoy most is when I see a truly well designed page with very exiguous code. That makes me happy, but then I'm pretty truly amused anyway!
I'm not a coder myself, so if you ask me to institute a web page I'm going to use a schedule such as Dreamweaver to build it. But just because I can't institute code on my own, doesn't mean I don't know how to strip down the unnecessary junk from Html in order to produce a cleaner coded page.
The qoute with programs such as Dreamweaver is that they don't always originate the best or most streamlined coding structure. Unfortunately, many expert designers don't even know enough about code to go in and fix what these development programs create. To be fair to Dreamweaver, it isn't even close to the biggest offender of code bloat. That title, from my experience, goes to any goods from Microsoft. Especially those programs with a "turn this into a web page" feature. (If you ever want to see some of the worst code imaginable, originate a "web page" using Microsoft Word.)
What does code bloat have to do with hunt engine friendliness?
Reducing code bloat no only cuts down on page download time, but it also makes it easier on the hunt engines as well. When spidering a page the hunt engines pull the entire code (or the first 100kb) of the page. Only later is that data parsed. By reducing download time the spiders, which are already fast, can burn straight through many more pages more quickly, quite perhaps indexing more pages than they would otherwise.
Once the pages have been spidered, the reduced code then makes it easier for the engine to parse the data. While engines have gotten much better about getting straight through the junk code, reducing the amount of code they have to sort straight through will only streamline their processes and potentially giving you an additional, albeit insignificant, advantage. Of course, we can argue about this all day, but the powers behind the hunt engines have stated numerous times over the years that anyone site owners can do to make the spider's job easier, the better. Take that any way you want.
There are a amount of things you can do to cut the code bloat of your website.
Css
Css has many benefits for programmers. For this description the most relevant one is that Css greatly reduces the amount of code on your page. This is especially true if you use external Css files but we'll get to that in a bit. First and foremost, any way is that Css can be used to eliminate duplicate on-page styles from the code. I'll furnish links to some how-to Css references but for now, just know that the amount of code that can be replaced using Css instead of tags is pretty significant.
One of the other great things about Css is that none of it truly has to be in the page code itself, but can be called from an external Css file. The web browser plainly has to download the file once and then that Css document will apply to every page on the website (assuming only one Css document is used.)
JavaScript
JavaScript itself is not a code saver but what you can do, like your Css file, is move the JavaScript into an external file. Again, just like Css, that singular JavaScript file will then be used for every page it is required to function on without having any additional download. Thoughprovoking the JavaScript off the page reduces code distance and page download time significantly.
There are a lot of other ways to cut code bloat and increase page download time. Some of these include compressing images, using text instead of images, removing nested tables, etc. I don't need to go into all of these just so long as you understand that bloated code plainly isn't valuable and the benefits of reducing and eliminating garbage code is worthwhile.
Headings
Some Seos will argue whether using keywords in Hx tags truly helps your hunt engine rankings. I'm going to bypass that discussion because there is an altogether separate conjecture for using permissible heading tags. plainly put, it helps the hunt engines understand the relative significance of separate textual areas of the page.
Many sites are content with just using a bold or maybe a bit larger font for their paragraph headings. But that tells the hunt engine very exiguous other than that singular line is of slightly more relevance. After all, any text can be bolded, colored different, or be made bigger in order to originate discrete inflections of tone, page scanability, or to call out safe bet points that are helpful. But ultimately, these things weigh small in the whole scheme of things.
Remember back to high school or college when you had to originate an shape of a paper before you even began to write it? Your paper outlines would look something like this:
Title
introduction
I. Point #1
... A. Sub Point #1
... B. Sub Point #2
...... 1. Sub-Sub point #1
...... 2. Sub-Sub point #2
... C. Sub Point #3
Ii. Point #2
... A. Sub Point #1
... B. Sub Point #2
...... 1. Sub-Sub point #1
...... 2. Sub-Sub point #2
... C. Sub Point #3
Iii. Point #3
... A. Sub Point #1
... B. Sub Point #2
...... 1. Sub-Sub point #1
...... 2. Sub-Sub point #2
... C. Sub Point #3
Conclusion
Now a web page is separate from a paper, but not by a whole lot. Using Hx tags properly on each page can tell the engine quite a bit about the page before it even breaks it down. That's where your headings come in.
When you do no more than bold your headings you tell the engine something about that line of text only. When you use Hx tags you tell the engines about the whole topic of the text directly below it. Using keywords in your headings is an added bonus as the hunt engines should then confirm that the headline does accurately describe the following text and together both should be given a bit of extra weight.
Here is how I shape a lot of the sites we work on:
Page Title
Main Headline
Sub-headline
introduction
First main point
... First Sub point
... Second Sub point
......... First sub-sub point
......... Second sub-sub point
... Hird Sub point
Second main point
... First Sub point
... Second Sub point
......... First sub-sub point
......... Second sub-sub point
... Third Sub point Third main point
... First Sub point
... Second Sub point
......... First sub-sub point
......... Second sub-sub point
... Third Sub point
conclusion
Or alternately:
Document TitleMain Headline
introductionFirst main point
... First Sub point
... Second Sub point
......... First sub-sub point
......... Second sub-sub point
... Third Sub point Second main point
... First Sub point
... Second Sub point
......... First sub-sub point
......... Second sub-sub point
... Third Sub point Third main point
... First Sub point
... Second Sub point
......... First sub-sub point
......... Second sub-sub point
... Third Sub point
conclusion
Should your document have that many headings and sub-headings? Probably not, but that's all considered by length. If its short than an will likely do the trick. As the document gets longer you need to break it up accordingly. I have to admit that I fail to do this routinely on this blog, but assuredly not for pages we optimize for our clients.
In fact, this should be done before a page even gets optimized. When developing the site, the shape format should already be prepped for page content. This is truly done using Css. plainly originate your style for each tag and then they are ready to be employed onto the site as the content developers and/or Seos get to it.
But going back to the engines, by using this buildings the hunt engines can read the text hierarchy. Seos talk about this when it comes to site architecture, but often fail when it comes to the page architecture. By providing this shape structure, we let the hunt engines know the layers of significance on each page, which help make the page much more cordial to the hunt engines and the Seos who have to do their job.
Navigation & Links
We recently had been working with a client to get them to remove their block of footer links. All the links were relevant to drive habitancy to their brand pages but it was plainly ugly. We recommended a few options, one of which was a "shop by brand" drop down menu. They were able to implement a drop down that associated to all of their brand pages but via their implementation of it none of the links were able to be followed by hunt engines spiders.
Sorry. Try again.
Search engine cordial pilotage and linking structures are the cornerstone of a hunt engine cordial website. This is the one area where, if all else is done right but you originate links the hunt engines cannot follow, you plainly won't get anywhere... Or very much beyond the home page, at least.
Web developers often institute pilotage links using flash or JavaScript. This can originate a exiguous extra flare for the website, which can be nice, but unfortunately, it is probative to hunt engines.
The bottom line, if hunt engines cannot result your links then they won't be able to crawl straight through your site in order to rank your pages. While this won't fully hinder your pages from ranking well you'll be severely handicapped and fully at the mercy of external links pointing to private pages. assuredly not a place you want to be.
There are a few ways to check to see if your links are spiderable. One of the easiest, if you use FireFox, is the YellowPipe Lynx Viewer Tool extension.
If you like the extra bells and whistles in your navigation, you will whether have to find ways to get what you want while creating hunt cordial links, which might be costly to find/develop workarounds, or be willing to compromise a bit. Cool nav features are cool, but nothing stunts enterprise increase like limiting hunt engine spiderability to your site.
On Page Content
About a year or two ago I had a possible client touch me to question about our services. They had heard a lot about us and were truly interested in using us for their optimization. But we ended up hitting a snap before we could get a covenant signed. In fact, I basically told them that we were not the ones to be able to help them.
What was the snag? Thy were unwilling to make any changes to the descriptive look of their website. They said they had poured thousands of dollars into the institute and they liked it exactly they way it was.
That's fair and understandable. When you poor so much money into developing the perfect website visibly, it's hard to come to terms with the fact that you may have to make changes to it in order to make it hunt engine friendly. That's the danger of designing without your Seo's in place providing feedback along the way.
The site in question contained about fifty words of text on the home page all embedded within an image. While most habitancy would be Ok with converting that to accepted text, in this case the text "layout" was perfect. perfect font, perfect line spacing, perfect character spacing, etc. It would have been impossible to duplicate it perfectly surface of an image. Unfortunately, that was a deal breaker for them.
And for us.
Making sure your text is indexable by the hunt engines is paramount. hunt engines cannot read text embedded in images. Sure you can load your alt attribute with a paragraph of text but that just won't give you the same effect. If the hunt engines cannot "read" your page, they have no way of knowing what's on the page. This makes it (near) impossible to rank for any given keyword phrases. In most cases the Title tag, meta description and alt tags won't be enough to compete for first page placement.
A great seeing institute is renowned for usability issues, but don't be so married to a "perfect" institute that you have to throw out hunt engine marketing as a viable option. Work with both your designer and Seo to originate a hunt engine cordial website that is Thoughprovoking to both hunt engines and visitors.
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