All You Need to Know About SEO

You're welcome.

You're absolutely correct. They know what the various HTML elements are intended to be used for, and when a Web page uses those elements correctly, the search engines can better (and easily) understand what the page is about and thus rank it accordingly.

One of the cases where Firefox is doing the right thing. The alt="" attribute is only supposed to be visible if the image cannot be displayed. Internet Explorer gets it wrong (as usual) though, treating it both as "alternate text" and a "text based tool tip".

 

Ok

Mystery solved

But, in your opinion, is it incorrect to use the title attribute for the images? If it is useless, I'll save some coding

 

Very informative. Thanx

 

No, you can use them - in fact, I often do. Mainly as a description of the image. For example, if my image showed a litter of six week old Jack Russell Terrier puppies (Irish Jacks, not the Parsons ones), I'd use the alt="' attribute to state that it's a litter of Jack Russell Terrier puppies. Then I'd use the title attribute to state that it's a litter of six week old Irish Jacks (and if they're almost ready for adoption, I'll state that in my title attribute as well).

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My rating 10/10

 

Dan,

I read over your thread and it was great! 10/10!!

I have a question though. I understand that google loves content, as do all search engines. I run an ecommerce site, with very little content (as in articles, news, postings, etc.) All of my content is in the product descriptions themselves. How would I optimize this for search engines?

The site is BurnerSports.com if you want to have a quick look.

Is the next step to simply input the keywords, change the page titles, and get backlinks? I guess I am asking for the best way to optimize an ecommerce site.

 

Is this the same site you asked ssandecki to look at in the services board? If so, he and I will pretty much give you the same answers.

 

Yes, I asked him about doing a site analysis. I know you 2 are very well respected on these boards, so the opinions from both of you would be great. If you feel your answer will be the same as ssandecki, than I guess you don't have to answer. It's up to you, 2 heads are always better than 1.

 

Dan Schulz we are most thankful for your post

A pleasure to read it

 

I'm pretty busy at the moment BurnerSports - can you give me a few days?

 

Amazing stuff, Dan. You are spot on with your approach. You cut out all the fluff. I love it! Keep it up man!

 

Hey dan Thx for this great post

I need one help so please help me
The help relates for using WWW or NON-WWW
I am having a Forum and i can see indexed pages in both URL's www.yoursite.com and http://yoursite.com
But the WWW version is having more pages indexed as compared to NON-WWW
I am using VB forum
SO shall i use redirect from all non WWW to WWW ?
will there be any problem further for my site in Page Rank and Indexing pages ?
Also if i can see result for indexed pages for both version is it recommended to have a redirect to only one version i.e WWW.Yoursite.com ?

Please help me in this matter

Thanks again for this great post

 

Definatlely pick one and redirect the other to it. I prefer the www. version myself, and thus use this in my .htaccess file (I only host on Apache servers).

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php?$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

Replace domain.com with your domain name and TLD, while leaving everything else intact.

 

Just did what you said
And my all links are now in WWW format
thanks for the help
You Rock !!

 

You're welcome.

 

A competitor company in my niche bought some PR7 links and every other month it SOARED in the SERP. So don't tell us that paid links don't rule the search. They do that pretty well.

 

Were those links the only things they did? Was their organic SEO starting to kick in? Were they originally "sandboxed" or otherwise flagged for human review previously? Or were their other links contributing and becoming more valuable?

Don't just assume - always conduct your own research.

 

Yeah, those links were the only things they did, before purchasing their site was #7-10 in the SERP, after - #1, and they have received sitelinks from the Google recently. That's the way how the big G react to paid link reports, sent by me several times.

 

Ok. That doens't exclude other factors, such as any existing incoming links maturing. Besides, if they're buying links, why haven't you reported it to Google yet? (Assuming you haven't yet, of course. And yes, I know about assumption being the mother of all -------.)

 

$250 Link (yes, i know how much it cost, thanks TLA) doesn't seem any of links maturing. As i said i reported in Google several times, but there are no results. What we are talking about, if another site, on which each second paragraph contains only blend of keywords without any commas feels in SERP pretty fine too. And yes, spam reports to Google don't helps to drop out it too.
So what i want to say? You wrote right sings in the article, but black and "gray" methods still work. There is no fair in SEO and if you don't wanna be beaten by competitors you should use all set of them. Especially in niches where content doesn't matter at all.