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...
Cutts also suggested that you could run tests to experiment with different meta descriptions on high traffic pages to see if it results in more visits. For more on meta descriptions, see our posts "Crafting Your Ad For Google Organic" nd "How To...
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. Duplicate meta descriptions from page to page will not get you anywhere.
Bad meta tags, keyword and dynamic URL issues, customization, and the inability to optimize at page level have caused huge headaches for search marketers. Another example of significant and positive impact of writing SEO friendly content on search...
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. Similar to the canonical URL tag, the meta robots tag can be both greatly helpful, and incredibly destructive.
Pay attention to the title tag and meta description of your page. 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...
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. Take the list, get your baseline rankings, and compare it against a broad set of...
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.
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
The use of keyword-rich Meta data: Page title and meta description tags. One problem: there is a missing element that could hinder the effort - consideration for how users search for and find government service online – where's the search engine...
The keyness factor can be derived from the context of the terms, terminolgy and text used in the content of URl, title, headings, anchor text of the inbound links, alt text used on images, schema codes, meta tags, microformats and body text.
Next time a senator or Forbes writer or whoever has a pen in hand and a lack of understanding about how search engines work blames SEO professionals for the poor state of affairs for users, you can mention to them in this day of meta data, big...
