I agree - no matter what Matt Cutts said in Sept 2009 I have seen evidence of the keyword meta tag still playing a factor as well as 2 other Google Engineers (admittedly prior to Sept 2009) giving conflicting info I will give an example of Google seemingly using the keyword meta tag Please Google (bear in mind I use Google.co.uk mostly so the results will likely be different for you) > hire the best saerch engine optimiser (note the typo there) Yes it's optimiser not optimizer for us in the UK But the point is - relevant to this thread - SAERCH is only present in the keyword meta tag! Go figure that one then if what Matt Cutts claimed in Sept 2009 is true??? Look for hire-seo.com
Exactly, even if Google don't use META data anymore, you should still have it there, google isn't the only search engine, you need to think about Yahoo, Bing, etc.
Not only that Xero SEO as I have just shown there is evidence there of Google also not ignoring meta tags, not even the keyword one!
"On Page" SEO artlessly refers to the argument and agreeable on your web website pages. Basically alteration your page and agreeable so the Search Engine can acquisition your webpage if a surfer is analytic for your web sites accurate topic.
I'm more interested in knowing how Google Caffeine works. Once I know that, I can adjust the onpage and offpage seo accordingly.
Hello, There are two type of Search Engine Optimization that ON Page optimization and OFF Page optimization. As compare to Off Page Optimization that On page optimization is far more due to it's importance at the view point of search engine optimization. On page means that You have to do something in your website in order to make it search engine friendly. At the view point of Search Engine Optimization that On page is so important as compare to Off Page Optimization.
Also there can be few more onpage optimization techniques as follows - 1. Placing keywords cloud there on landing pages 2. Onsite search implications 3. RSS implementation 4. Anchor text based internal linking 5. G webmaster tools implementation
Google isn't the only search engine, why optimize your website for Google? Why not optimize it for all search engines? Meta tags are useful and should still always be used.
On site is making sure your infrastructure friendly for the search engines and optimizing the efficiency. Off site is building your business through a variety of marketing efforts that also generate links connecting to your website.
That to Xero - I optimise for them all and pretty much get similar results on the big 3 (which is about as far as I check - though I "very" occasionally check the UK's 4th Ask) I also optimise (optimize) for both UK and US English to.
Off Page SEO does exist, SEO is divided into two parts. - On Page SEO, content, HTML, the way your website works. - Off Page SEO, generally link building methods, so backlinks.
On-Page Optimization factors: title tags heading tags (h1/h2) description alt attributes (use for describing images) keywords content robot.txt sitemap
* Make sure that all of your web pages can be indexed by search engines - make sure that they all have at least one link from somewhere on your site. * Make sure that you have unique content on every single page. * Make sure that your meta-tags are arranged correctly - your page title tags and description tags should describe the content of your different web pages. The page title tags should be less then 68 characters and the description tags more detailed but less then 148 characters. * Make sure you label the different headers on your web pages using H tags. * Make sure that your web page URLs are SEO friendly, use mod re-write for Linux and Apahche hosting or use IIS redirect for Windows. Ideally make it so that the URLs describe your content i.e. use domain.com/blue-widgets.php as apposed to having something like domain.com/product.php?cat=146. Use hyphens or underscores to separate words in the URLs. * Make sure that the links within your site are complete i.e. if you are linking to the blue widgets page link to domain.com/blue-widgets.php as apposed to just blue-widgets.php. * Make sure that you use descriptive URLs for your images i.e. use blue-widget.jpg as apposed a bunch of numbers and or letters .jpg. * Make sure that you label all of your images with descriptive alt attributes. * Make sure that you make good use of anchor text links within your content - if you have a page about blue widgets, use the phrase blue widgets in the text that links to it. * Make sure that there is only one version of your site - 301 redirect all non www. URLs to the www. ones or vice versa. * Make sure that there is only one version of your homepage - 301 redirect the index or default page back to domain.com. * Use the rel="nofollow" tag in the links to websites that you do not trust, you think maybe using spamming techniques or you do not want to help in the search engines. * Make sure that your code is valid, in some instances bad code can lead to search engines not being able to properly read a page. Use the W3C validator to check your markup. If you follow these guidelines you are on your way towards good on page SEO and to good rankings in the search engines.
Creating Meta tags Header Tags Robots.txt Sitemap.xml Alt Attributes These all are Onpage SEO techniques.
On page is all about proper meta tags like meta title, meta description, meta keywords, content of page and proper hi tags.