Common Coding Errors that are Bad for SEO

According to Bing Webmaster Center’s Rick DeJarnette some of the most common errors that can tank a site include: An invalid mark-up code – To make sure that your mark-up code is valid use a validator such as the W3C Markup Validation Service. Of course when validating you should know which errors to look out for by asking the following questions: * Does your file contain a document type declaration (DTD) statement? * Are all of your tags closed properly? * Are your tags written in lower case ... 0 Comments

Consistency in SEO

Consistency is very important in SEO. Without consistency the effectiveness of all your efforts will be lessened a great deal leading to wasted time and effort. For maximum effectiveness make sure you are consistent in: Posting frequency – this goes for sites with blogs. Consistency does not mean daily posting but at least have something new each month or each week for your readers (and search engine spiders) to read. Remember to use keywords though (consistency again!) because the blog is meant to serve fresh content for spiders to crawl and you want them ... 0 Comments

Importance of Site Structure

One of the biggest mistakes yet most common mistakes of new websites is not having a good site structure. It is a huge mistake not only because it can affect your users as they navigate from page to page but also because it can affect your site’s SEO. Site structure for the user: If your site is unstructured navigation can become confusing because jumping from page to page would be like leaping from portal to portal with no sense of direction. Structure is needed so that visitors can know where they are in the ... 0 Comments

Do You Want Traffic? Pay Attention To Blog Design!

You do realize that I am talking about traffic to your blog and not traffic on the streets, right? If you are still thinking terms of the latter point, then I suggest you go back to the earliest posts in this blog and learn a bit more about SEO and blogging. Anyhow, I think that traffic is one of the most important things – if not THE most important – that bloggers ... 2 Comments

Bloglines Perks for Everyone – Part 2

Last post we discussed Bloglines' perks for ordinary bloggers. This time we'll be touching on the perks it offers to developers. According to their website there are different uses for the Bloglines Web Service especially when it comes to developing applications. Some of the uses include: *Desktop aggregator developers can use these calls to sync aggregators across multiple computers, while at the same time giving their users access to the most full-featured web-based aggregator available *The Bloglines Web Service can be used to develop more advanced notifiers *Feed and subscription data can be incorporated into blogs and ... 0 Comments

Metrics for Success Part 4

Last installment!! 5. Entry Pages - Keep a close eye on your entry pages. This will reveal which pages are contributing much to your site. You will see which ones attract the most number of visitors, which of the pages actually get visitors that stick, and which pages visitors usually leave as soon as they get to it. This will give you an idea on which pages need improvement. 6. Popular Pages - Find out which pages get visited and revisited most often. You are interested in the pages that get most traffic and the ... 0 Comments

White Hat SEO

There is a saying that goes ?The good guys always finish last.? Perhaps that is why there are people who resort to black hat methods to get their page rankings up. Yet there is such a thing as ethical SEO, as featured in a previous post. Ethical SEO does not mean you will not get your site high up in search directories nor will it take you forever. In fact, it guarantees lasting results. Just as there are black hat methods, at the other end of the spectrum we have white had methods. ... 0 Comments

Black Hat Methods

SEO is meant to get a website to the top of SERPs. There's nothing wrong with SEO at all and is in fact a good thing. The only time SEO becomes unethical, which I've warned about in a previous post, is when supposed "SEO experts" use black hat methods. Black hat methods are simply techniques used to improve a certain page's ranking that are not acceptable according to search engine guidelines. Such methods are usually deemed unacceptable because they are deceptive and often lead to sites with content unrelated to the keywords typed in by the user. Two of the most ... 0 Comments

How Far Will SEO Take You?

Last post I said that I'll be discussing some ways wherein you can SEO for directories. However, I decided to put that off till next time and tackle the important subject on SEO and your expectations and its limitations. It is true that SEO plays a vital role in web design and that if you do hope to get to be on the first page of SERPs you'd better employ good SEO techniques. But just how far can SEO really take you? We know that with SEO you website has a greater chance of being indexed ... 0 Comments

SEO in Perspective

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is all the rage with website owners and developers. However, more and more website owners are going overboard and forgetting what SEO is really supposed to be about. In the pre-search engine era people had to remember website URLs or use directories to go to the website containing the information they need. With the advent of search engines finding information became much easier and people found themselves automatically using search engines as the portal to getting whatever it is they need on the internet.

As search engines gained importance website ...

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