Comments on: Improve Your SEO Part 3 – Attention To Detail http://tutorialblog.org/improve-your-seo-part-3-attention-to-detail/ High Quality Photoshop Tutorials, Wordpress Tips and other Great Things... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:27:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Nick - http://tutorialblog.org/improve-your-seo-part-3-attention-to-detail/#comment-25300 Nick - Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:37:47 +0000 http://tutorialblog.org/?p=3139#comment-25300 "By having all your JS in one aggregated and compressed file you minimize the number of HTTP requests required" correct me if im wrong but isn't the web designed to make HTTP requests? you seem to be missing the point of the websites!! “By having all your JS in one aggregated and compressed file you minimize the number of HTTP requests required”

correct me if im wrong but isn’t the web designed to make HTTP requests? you seem to be missing the point of the websites!!

]]> By: Karen - http://tutorialblog.org/improve-your-seo-part-3-attention-to-detail/#comment-25299 Karen - Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:34:23 +0000 http://tutorialblog.org/?p=3139#comment-25299 Nice Tutorial very informative! Nice Tutorial very informative!

]]> By: Jezz - http://tutorialblog.org/improve-your-seo-part-3-attention-to-detail/#comment-25298 Jezz - Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:30:22 +0000 http://tutorialblog.org/?p=3139#comment-25298 Adam, what are you talking about, "Actually the contrary. Googlebot is very smart. Don’t try and out-think it" your talking utter nonsense the whole point is that you are telling the bot if its a picture, PDF or a html file etc, so it can process your page quicker. Just because this isn't mentioned on word press documentation doesn't mean its a lie! you should actually go out an research this stuff before you make bold nonfactual statements like that! Adam, what are you talking about,

“Actually the contrary. Googlebot is very smart. Don’t try and out-think it”

your talking utter nonsense the whole point is that you are telling the bot if its a picture, PDF or a html file etc, so it can process your page quicker. Just because this isn’t mentioned on word press documentation doesn’t mean its a lie! you should actually go out an research this stuff before you make bold nonfactual statements like that!

]]> By: dalin - http://advomatic.com http://tutorialblog.org/improve-your-seo-part-3-attention-to-detail/#comment-25291 dalin - http://advomatic.com Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:53:51 +0000 http://tutorialblog.org/?p=3139#comment-25291 You are right on about the back-linking and splash pages. But I strongly disagree with the remaining points in this blog post. I would even go so far as to say that this is SEO FUD. Google hasn't been very explicit in describing how they work with javascript. There hasn't been a Google Webmaster Central blog post about "This is all the details of how we deal with Javascript". We only get little bits here and there. It seems that googlebot doesn't read some types of Javascript, and that which they do, isn't really parsed, only searched for links for further spidering. By having all your JS in one aggregated and compressed file you minimize the number of HTTP requests required and that single file is then cached by the browser/googlebot for the duration of the session. If you're following the rules of semantic separation of content/style/behaviour and using JS for progressive enhancement, then this shouldn't be a problem. "For example always end your URL with .html or .php so that bots know what language your web page is written in." I don't understand why that is important. Unless my site is about PHP or HTML chances are I don't want to turn up in searches about those things and I don't want to confuse Googlebot in thinking that my site is about those things. Whether you made your site in Java or PHP has no bearing on your SEO. When it comes down to it SEO is 99% about three things: * Write good quality copy. If you want to show up in searches about recycled paper products. Than have lots of clear well-written copy about recycled paper products. * Well structured content. Semantic markup is key. Use header, list, paragraph etc. tags appropriately. Structure your page and URLs in a way that makes sense. It needs to make sense when JS, CSS and images are turned off. * Backlinks. Backlinks from highly ranked sites are more valuable than low ranked sites. Generally more backlinks means higher rankings. If you want to increase your SEO, better to work on improving that 99% instead of worrying about the hundred other things that make up that last 1%. "The key here is to remember that Googlebots are stupid, so don’t make them think." Actually the contrary. Googlebot is very smart. Don't try and out-think it. You are right on about the back-linking and splash pages. But I strongly disagree with the remaining points in this blog post. I would even go so far as to say that this is SEO FUD.

Google hasn’t been very explicit in describing how they work with javascript. There hasn’t been a Google Webmaster Central blog post about “This is all the details of how we deal with Javascript”. We only get little bits here and there. It seems that googlebot doesn’t read some types of Javascript, and that which they do, isn’t really parsed, only searched for links for further spidering. By having all your JS in one aggregated and compressed file you minimize the number of HTTP requests required and that single file is then cached by the browser/googlebot for the duration of the session. If you’re following the rules of semantic separation of content/style/behaviour and using JS for progressive enhancement, then this shouldn’t be a problem.

“For example always end your URL with .html or .php so that bots know what language your web page is written in.”

I don’t understand why that is important. Unless my site is about PHP or HTML chances are I don’t want to turn up in searches about those things and I don’t want to confuse Googlebot in thinking that my site is about those things. Whether you made your site in Java or PHP has no bearing on your SEO.

When it comes down to it SEO is 99% about three things:

* Write good quality copy. If you want to show up in searches about recycled paper products. Than have lots of clear well-written copy about recycled paper products.

* Well structured content. Semantic markup is key. Use header, list, paragraph etc. tags appropriately. Structure your page and URLs in a way that makes sense. It needs to make sense when JS, CSS and images are turned off.

* Backlinks. Backlinks from highly ranked sites are more valuable than low ranked sites. Generally more backlinks means higher rankings.

If you want to increase your SEO, better to work on improving that 99% instead of worrying about the hundred other things that make up that last 1%.

“The key here is to remember that Googlebots are stupid, so don’t make them think.”

Actually the contrary. Googlebot is very smart. Don’t try and out-think it.

]]> By: Christen - http://iconolith.com http://tutorialblog.org/improve-your-seo-part-3-attention-to-detail/#comment-25283 Christen - http://iconolith.com Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:33:32 +0000 http://tutorialblog.org/?p=3139#comment-25283 You seem to have covered all the SEO basics, but I've been curious of how services like Google Trends and Google Insights can be leveraged to anticipate search terms and track how users change their queries over time. In the past I've only been using the stats belonging to the sites I'm working on, but these tools provide such a broader view of the big picture that it seems there is a wealth of insight to gain from them for SEO. I'm curious if anyone else has thoughts or experience on these tools. You seem to have covered all the SEO basics, but I’ve been curious of how services like Google Trends and Google Insights can be leveraged to anticipate search terms and track how users change their queries over time. In the past I’ve only been using the stats belonging to the sites I’m working on, but these tools provide such a broader view of the big picture that it seems there is a wealth of insight to gain from them for SEO.

I’m curious if anyone else has thoughts or experience on these tools.

]]> By: Chris G. - http://westwardstrategy.com http://tutorialblog.org/improve-your-seo-part-3-attention-to-detail/#comment-25266 Chris G. - http://westwardstrategy.com Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:30:55 +0000 http://tutorialblog.org/?p=3139#comment-25266 The only exception I would add to Chris' comment above is to make sure you remove the session id from your url. Other than that he is correct, you can have arguments after a question mark. However I would not base your entire site on a structure like so: http://foo.com/index.php?page=2 and http://foo.com/index.php?page=3, and http://foo.com/index.php?page=4. You have no hierarchy in that sort of structure. The only exception I would add to Chris’ comment above is to make sure you remove the session id from your url. Other than that he is correct, you can have arguments after a question mark. However I would not base your entire site on a structure like so: http://foo.com/index.php?page=2 and http://foo.com/index.php?page=3, and http://foo.com/index.php?page=4.

You have no hierarchy in that sort of structure.

]]> By: Chris - http://tutorialblog.org/improve-your-seo-part-3-attention-to-detail/#comment-25263 Chris - Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:47:10 +0000 http://tutorialblog.org/?p=3139#comment-25263 The part on URL structure is dead wrong. Google is capable of spidering dynamically-generated content, so saying that anything after a ? in the url will be ignored is false. Quote from Google Blog: "If you have a dynamic URL which is in the standard format like foo?key1=value&key2=value2 we recommend that you leave the url unchanged..." Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls.html The part on URL structure is dead wrong. Google is capable of spidering dynamically-generated content, so saying that anything after a ? in the url will be ignored is false.

Quote from Google Blog:
“If you have a dynamic URL which is in the standard format like foo?key1=value&key2=value2 we recommend that you leave the url unchanged…”

Source:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls.html

]]> By: jenny - http://tutorialblog.org/improve-your-seo-part-3-attention-to-detail/#comment-25256 jenny - Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:00:52 +0000 http://tutorialblog.org/?p=3139#comment-25256 Really useful tutorial thanks very much! Really useful tutorial thanks very much!

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