HI all, I have some questions and needs some assistance with the subject of this post. I would like to obtimize my pages the best possible for SEO. I'm creating a few subpages on my site. Is there a maximum amount of characters which I should watch out for. For example, for seo, a clear subjective title is good.. I have a couple of pages with numbers and letters which add up to about 25-27 characters. Would this be ok? Can I add dashes to seperate the words? For the title of my subpages, May I add my site name/url on ALL of the subpages with a dash or pipe afterwords for the actual subject of the page? (for eg Hockeycard.com... title would be {Hockey Cards | Wayne Gretzky Cards}). My url is two rich keywords, if I add this to the title of all of my subpages, will google punish me? For the above eg, would I be punished for using Hockey Cards as part of the title on all of my pages? As for Meta...would I be able to repeat generic rich keywords on all of the pages or should I just use maybe 3 or 4 unique meta keywords on each page? Will my seo decrease if I use very generic keywords on all of my pages (eg, hockey cards, cards, etc) on ALL pages? When interlinkink...is it better to use the full URL or can I use the short form? eg, long url would be <a href = "http://www.blahblah.com/blah.html">link</a>......as opposed to short <a href="blah.html">link</a> Thanks
Here is a good guide for length suggestions of title & meta data: http://www.seomoz.org/user_files/SEO_Web_Developer_Cheat_Sheet.pdf For the title, you would be fine with up to 70 characters. You can add the site name to each page's title, but it isn't recommended. You would be diluting the weight of other keywords in each title. You wouldn't get penalized for this though. You don't really need to worry about the meta keywords tag. Try to make it unique for each page, but don't spend too much time on this. You would be better to exclude this tag rather than repeating the same keywords one each page. For your linking, you can either use absolute or relative. As far as I know, the search engines should treat both linking styles the same. If you exclude the domain name, the search engines will know that the actual link includes the domain name.