Ive read some articles that the footer is important in SEO. My question is it also tagged...like h1 h2 h3 etc. thanks
your question is a bit unclear. Are you asking whether you should use header tags in the footer? If thats your question, i would say that, generally speaking, no - you dont use header tags in the footer. The main reason footers are useful to SEO is because you quickly add site-wide keyword links to the most important pages of your site.
Footers can be very useful for search engines, because they provide an excellent place to provide a kind of mini sitemap. Remember you should be inter-linking every page of your site as much as possible. Keep this in mind when creating footer links.
A sitemap is the best place for a sitemap. Footers aren't at all "important". it's ok to put a few useful links there, Like maybe the terms, an about page and a page where people can contact you. But for anything else it's pointless and useless and ends up just looking spammy.
Footer is important because you can put there your important links, such as sitemap, link to us.... and other links that a visitor can quickly navigate.
Pointless? Useless? ...hardly. The footer is a great/easy way to take advantage of your site's internal linking potential. I don't suggest spamming the hell out of your footer - but 2 or 3 links to your most important pages can really improve your rankings.
for me, footer provides a little information about your site. you can do this by making links like, 'about us', 'contacts', 'site map', etc. depends on your strategy.
I disagree. What are google going to say? "wow this site is linking to it's self, Must be a great site if it's doing that".
It's a matter of distributing the pagerank among your site's pages. Google looks to see which pages in your site have the most internal links pointing to them and deems those pages with the most links the most important - which makes logical sense when you think about it. Internal linking principals work very similar to the inbound linking principals - just on a smaller scale (your website). You should really take some time to investigate internal linking strategies. IMO it is the most overlooked opportunity by webmasters and SEOs - and can have a huge impact on rankings.
I disagree. Linking structures are important for getting pages indexed, But they don't do anything for SERPS. Why would google think that you linking to yourself is a sign of quality?
Your missing the point here. The reason footers are good is because you can easily make changes site-wide - using keyworded links to the pages that you want to rank highly in the search engines. A footer is usually an include file that is common on every page of the site. Linking structure should be friendly to the search engines to make sure your entire site gets indexed - YES. But that is only scraping the surface of what you can achieve with your internal links. I suggest you read this to help you understand distributing the pagerank on your site. The basic strategy is thus: the pages that are targeted for your most competitive keywords should have the most internal links pointing to them - this will give them more of your site's pagerank and help them compete better in the SE rankings. This can usually be achieved quickly and easily by using the footer. However, you can achieve similar results by going through each page of your site adding links directly into the content where possilbe. - i generally reccomend doing a combination of both. I'm not sure how else to explain it, but if you aren't taking time to optimize your internal linking, you are missing out on better SE rankings.
Because a link is a link, regardless of where its coming from. Google counts links and distributes that "juice" via pagerank. If you're linking to yourself about "keyword", Google notices that and takes that into consideration when formulating the SERPs. Do a couple of searches in G for Inbound Linking or Internal Link Structure and you'll understand a little bit.
I agree with BILZ and Voasi on the internal PR value of a footer. If done properly, footer/header links can act just like any other links on a PRanked page. Do a Google search for "internal PageRank leak" for a bit more detail. For the original question: there isn't really an HTML tag that says "this is the footer of the page" although you can certainly create custom elements, etc. if you needed to. Not sure what the benefit would be though. I would think the SEs can identify common navigation elements throughout a site. I don't know what, if anything, they do with this information though.
Agreed and it should mostly be friendly to your users. At Text Link Center, we call this the "2 links - 2 points theory". We should have the video up late tonight or tomorrow. A link is not just a link. There are a billion factors. The rules are ENTIRELY different for onsite or offsite. The focus of onsite linking is to create a setup that both your visitors and spiders can easily navigate through to find all the good stuff on your site. The focus of offsite linking is to increase the value and trust of the page that link is pointing to by increasing the number of quality votes. If a link was just a link recip linking would be done by everyone. No very very few people still take the time to do it. Sure, this is how we detect useless links. Brandon
Hey there, Footers can be extremely useful. They can be used to distribute PR to other pages of your website. However, if used improperly, PR juice can be given to pages that are not important like terms and conditions, privacy statement, etc. If you use a nofollow link on these footer pages, then your other important pages will get more PR juice. Your PR juice should always goto the pages you want to show up high in the search results. Footers are also useful for displaying copyright information. Thats my two cents. Sincerely, Travis Walters
for the H1 H2 H3 tag you should these tag in an important spot such as the top of your page and becareful of using these tag you can get over optimize panalty