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Archive for April, 2006
Drive It - Convert It! - #4 (podcast): Search Engine Optimization - Part 2 - On-Page Coding
Friday, April 28th, 2006
In Search Engine Optimization – Part 2 we discuss On-page Coding. What steps should we take in coding our website to gain in search engine rankings.
Click the “more” link below for a full transcript of the show.
Here is a summary:
(Note: In this podcast, on occasion I refer to the “Content” meta tag. That should be the “Description” meta tag. I guess my “Content is King” theme from Show #3 stayed with me a little too strongly. Sorry for any confusion.)
The code you use on your web pages was designed to tell users more about that page. Thus, it also tells search engines more about your page. Over the past 5 years the importance of that code has diminished somewhat, but it is still a valuable tool for both the viewers of your page and for the search engine crawlers.
First it’s important to have an understanding of the web itself and how it works. I briefly discuss and explain the following:
1) What is the Internet
2) Web Page Technology
3) How crawlers crawl
4) HTML – the language of the web
5) Specific on-page coding
Within Item 5 – Specific on-page coding, I take a look at 7 items that can help you to higher rankings:
1) Title Tag
2) Alt Attributes
3) Headings tags (like an H1 tag)
4) Meta tag – Description
5) Meta tag – Keywords
6) Internal linking structure
7) Clean code
This is not a tutorial but is meant to give you an understanding of the relative importance of on-page coding, it’s likely importance in the future, and some of the top areas to examine if you want to pursue your on-page coding in more detail.
If you’d like to get more into the details, there is one excellent resource at www.seomoz.org. I also recommend frequenting www.searchenginewatch.com and www.webmasterworld.com.
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