Back in the day (which might just be last year), keyword tag stuffing was simple. Tip: Check your page title tags and navigation. Keywords were stuffed in title tags, meta tags, navigation, content, anchor text, URLs, domains, if there was a place...
Core optimization, like a descriptive title tag, included meta description, crawlable content and a crawlable site architecture are the first steps to creating AFC. A couple of years ago, Scott Stratten of "Unmarketing" book fame (a great read) was...
This is non-essential content that will likely carry a duplicated title element and should at the least contain a canonical tag in the page source of each page promoting the ranking focus to the absolute page.
Similar to Google Authorship, linking your Google+ page using the rel=publisher tag on your site not only helps you build relationships with friends and followers, but also gives Google information they can use to determine the relevancy of your...
After fetching each post's title tag, (necessary because some older articles had numeric, rather than keyword based URLs) I was able to use textalyser and Wordle to visualize the relative frequency at which major terms occurred from 2010 to 2013:
The title of the app determines the URL and title tag of the web page the app is hosted on. Choose a title for the app that reflects the brand and also the app’s function. The two SEO elements to focus on for mobile apps and the app stores are...
You can check out a previous post of mine that explains how one line of code could destroy your SEO, and one of the cases I covered explained how a broken canonical URL tag yielded catastrophic results for an ecommerce provider.
Vary Page Title (Headline) and Title Tag This is more for engines than users, and mixing up the keywords, modifiers, stems in your page’s heading and title tag helps your assets rank for a broader basket of keywords, allowing your content to work...
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"!
Google publicly stated that they ignore this tag, but Yahoo still uses it as well as other search engines. You can enter your Google+ profile URL and the plugin will add the rel=author tag on all of your pages and posts for Google Authorship.
If the anticipated result is just a traditional blue link, then I want to make sure that the title tag and description tag are meaningful enough to get the click. Enterprise SEO, Mobile of all global Internet traffic.
Some companies began churning out a lot of low-quality, thin content that was heavily optimized (from a title tag standpoint). The poor SEO tactics actually worked for a period of time until enough data was available, and until Google rolled out...
A title tag which includes the category name (or related primary keyword “vampire books”), listed first as an exact match before the brand, as Google reads title tags from left to right, placing more importance on the first term.
Review your keyword density (yes, this still matters greatly), title tag, URL, image alt attributes, and meta tags. On-site SEO discussions are typically dominated by technical debates about how search engines analyze and store HTML.
This is a stylized price tag link that opens up to a dialogue box which gives the consumer more details about the product along with showing product images. Tell ‘em in the Title The titles for each of the annotations have been altered from the...
Optimizing your title tag and the description meta tag can be extremely useful however in providing additional information to the search engines on how a particular page should be indexed. When Google recently announced it was (sort of) bringing...
You don't need to stuff your title tag with words just to fill it up. The over-zealous SEO in us all would want to write a title that looks something like: Without a compelling title and the direct and indirect SEO benefits it provides, you won't...
One simply put a frequently searched keyword phrase on a page and in a title tag, linked to it, and watched the search referral flow until the end of time. The fundamental tenet of organic search engine optimization (SEO) is that great content...
This is typically a shocking experience for business owners, and will show you the pages indexed on the site that contain the target keywords in the title tag (i.e.site:example.com intitle:keywords). They also often come with a price tag that many...
Short, for SEO purposes (title tag/URL) If the article isn’t doing as hot as you thought it would, switch it up – as important as nailing the perfect subject line is for e-mail marketing, so too is the title crucial for enticing readers to read...
