One chapter is dedicated to title tags, meta tags, headers, and file names. Search Engine Watch recently caught up with Jones to ask him what makes the book so special. It talks about putting a team together and how to find resources like industry...
Does my summary, meta description or excerpt clearly and accurately explain what people can expect to find if they click a link on a social site or search engine? For video content, is it easy to watch, clear in high resolution, etc.
Animated GIFs, a dated color scheme, duplicated navigation (as images at left, as text at the bottom of the page), badly written meta descriptions, non-optimized title tags, product images that you can’t click on for more details or to go to a...
There are still those companies that ask large sums of money to update meta tags on a website and that’s all they do. Updating meta tags is probably the easiest and most ineffective task any SEO can do, it really is the bare minimum.
Also, since your page name is also a part of your meta description, you might not want it to make it too long and overshadow that. To edit your About information to make a great meta description, go to your page and Edit Page > Basic Information...
We had an errant meta-refresh tag on the site that accidentally doubled our stats for a few days and also we forgot to add conversion tracking to one of our key business goals. Exactly 6 months ago, we re-designed and re-branded Search Engine Watch...
On page triggers (language, keywords, meta data, images etc.are they present? My name is Dave and over the next few months I shall be bringing my own geeky style of SEO to you, the fine readership of Search Engine Watch.
One might argue that meta descriptions have some impact on search rankings, if Google chooses to utilize them in the search results, but meta keywords died several years ago. Meta tags have a huge impact.
The new presentation makes the sitelinks larger and brings in the meta description and destination URL. Make sure you have a good meta description that looks professional when just the first 40 characters are shown.
HubPages announced it is using the new rel=author meta tag, so they are separating based on author, not topic, and are using 301 redirects from the original page to the new author subdomain. Veteran SEO Mark Jackson, Search Engine Watch contributor...
When would someone use "noindex, follow" in a robots meta tag? Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Feb.to 19, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
Why Won't Google Use My META Description? Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Jan.to 29, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
It is notable that Bing will officially support the rel=canonical meta tag, which handles duplicate content issues, in January or February of 2011. Watch visual search to be big in 2011. They have control of the press (can you think of a day in a...
already in the pipeline, Twitter, at the time, gave a cryptic hint, saying: "Companies will emerge that provide all manner of rich data and meta-data services around and in Tweets. Meta-Data: Tags, Annotations
These are: robots.txt directives meta robots tags XML sitemaps nofollow link attribute rel=canonical meta tag internal linking One topic that wasn't covered was Google's preference for webmasters to not exclude duplicate content with robots.txt or...
News flash: it's not all about title tags and meta keywords anymore. I talked with Siroker at SES Chicago 2009, and you can watch my video interview below to get an idea of what he will say at OMS 2010.
On October 1, 2002, Danny Sullivan, provided a second opinion in Search Engine Watch in "Death of A Meta Tag. Time passed, Sullivan left Search Engine Watch to start Search Engine Land and Search Marketing Expo, and way too many search engine...
Google Asserts That Keyword Meta Tags are NOT Used in Rankings Posted by Nathania Johnson Sep 23, 2009 Over at the Google Webmaster Central blog, Matt Cutts is reminding people that Google doesn't use keyword meta tags to rank sites for its main...
However, I have to go through and manually complete the meta's for about 6,000 category levels. News from the Search Engine Watch Blog Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions
However, I have to go through and manually complete the meta's for about 6,000 category levels. News from the Search Engine Watch Blog Search Engine Watch Experts Columns Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions
