One chapter is dedicated to title tags, meta tags, headers, and file names. The third edition of his "Search Engine Optimization: Your visual blueprint for effective Internet marketing" is fabulous for budding SEOs, and still proves to be a great...
You can control title tags, meta descriptions, content on the page, navigation, internal linking structure, etc. On January 15, 2013, Facebook released Graph Search, which is the social network's first attempt at a serious search engine.
Core optimization, like a descriptive title tag, included meta description, crawlable content and a crawlable site architecture are the first steps to creating AFC. When you look at SEO through a user lens certain components of the search engine's...
For more on meta descriptions, see our posts "Crafting Your Ad For Google Organic" nd "How To Use HTML Meta Tags". Cutts also suggested that you could run tests to experiment with different meta descriptions on high traffic pages to see if it...
If these non-important pages are getting indexed you can now start making preparations for robots.txt exclusion, meta robots usage, or at the least canonical tag utilization. Perhaps you'll find that you need to redirect a lot of pages or use...
Google helps you to improve the user experience and performance by reporting duplicate meta descriptions, missing title tags, and non-indexable content among other things. Search engine optimization (SEO) professionals, web designers, and bloggers...
Meta keywords are pretty much ignored by search engines nowadays, but if you still use them, make sure it talks specifically to that page and that it is also formatted correctly. Focus on Your Meta Data Too
Bad meta tags, keyword and dynamic URL issues, customization, and the inability to optimize at page level have caused huge headaches for search marketers. With the rapid adoption and renewed interest in content, part cause and part consequence of...
Meta noindex (follow, nofollow): Nice way to exclude content from searches You can’t truly have a successful search engine optimization (SEO) program without evaluating your performance over time and knowing how potential technical issues can...
SocketAnalytics automatically tracks meta data from a webpage that can be used to analyze visits to specific type of content and how that content is impacting overall revenue generation for your website.
DF: First off, make sure you have the lang tags (meta language tags) installed to tell us what language/region on the content on the page is targeting. DF: Again, not applicable to one engine, but to all:
On the organic side, there are no guarantees on how long it will take Google to index SEO-related changes, such as title tags and meta descriptions, and even then Google may change what appears in the search results.
Using the meta robots tag, you can instruct the search engines to not index a certain page, not follow any links on the page, etc. Recommendation: First, check if you are implementing the meta robots tag.
Listing the full name of the hotel as the first part of the title tag and meta snippet creates a bold repetition of the original query, adding in some dynamic insertion into the snippet also grabs a users attention - "See 281 candid photos"!
If you do, you end up with a bunch of low quality pages in the index.Finally, I like to write my own meta descriptions, so I uncheck that last box, however, if you are passing this blog off to your client, or have guest bloggers posting on the...
Make sure that each piece of content has an optimized title tag, keyword-focused copy, strong meta description, and optimized inbound links from related content. Slowly but surely, almost everything that used to constitute search engine...
Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide information about a web page for the search engines and website users. Title tags are part of the meta tags that appear at the top of your HTML inside the < head> area.
Review Your Robots.txt File; Assess Your Meta Robots Tagging Additionally, run a site scan with a tool such as Screaming Frog to assess if there are any pages on your site you are excluding via a meta robots tag.
Most Liked: #Runnerup How To Use HTML Meta Tags by Kristine Schachinger So, by way of saying thanks to our contributors at Search Engine Watch (SEW) for all the great content they produced this year, I wanted to see if there could be a reasonable...
Duplicate title tags and meta descriptions often happens as a result of CMS software or content teams that are unaware of the ramifications of this duplicate content issue. Duplicate Content - Title/Meta Content
