I was wondering if naming your webpage helps towards the like if Im making a tutorial website, should I name the pages x_tutorial.html or just x.html? what would be better (ie make me more prone to pop up in searches?) Thanks!
ok sounds good What would be the advantage of doing example.com/tutorials/descriptive-short-name... over... example.com/descriptive-short-name/ The whole site will be tutorials, so it may be redundant as I have tutorials in my main domain name address... but Im always up for an idea that would make me higher in the search rankings! thanks for your reply!!
I dunno, it's all up to you - maybe in the future you might want to have, say, /snippets/how-to-show-ip-address-in-php or /downloads/icon-collection/ - better than moving a large amount of links I guess.
The meta title of your page is the single most important item you can do for seo. The actual filename is not all that important.
Ok so for example then... <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>SMFtutorials.com</title> <meta name="description" content="A comprehensive list of soap and craftmaking tutorials" /> <meta name="description" content="soapmaking tutorials, craftmaking tutorials, etc............(I would add more)" /> Is that the best way to set it up like that? Im really new to this whole web design thing (as if you couldnt tell, lol) or would there be a better way? Thanks!! Just making sure I understand everything correctly!
<title>Soapmaking tutorials - SMFtutorials.com </title> <meta name="description" content="A comprehensive list of soapmaking tutorials" /> <meta name="keywords" content="soapmaking tutorials, tutorials, SMF tutorials, soapmaking, .../> Page Title and meta tag description are usually shown in search engines results pages (SERPs). So, it is better to have them optimized for each one of your webpages. Choose relevant words that you think will be catching the user's eye in SERPs
I would do: <title>SMFtutorials | What this page is about</title> Example: <title>SMFtutorials | Six Easy Steps for Making a PhotoShop Widget</title> Keeping the entire title to less that 65 chars.
If someone searches for tutorials, then the first page will appear higher in the search results. Search engines rank pages having the searched keyword in URL, title higher, especially in the domain name. If you have "tutorials" in the main domain name, that's great! You need not add it in every page's name as it will be somewhat redundant.
awesome! Im going to apply that logic to the whole site Thank you very much! I am probably 1 to 2 days away from launch... and google adsense just approved me for advertising!!! SWEET! EDIT: and to add... Ive got 4,600 members of a forum I moderate at chomping at the bit for me to finish this listing lol... so I will surely have some traffic coming in
I would put the tutorial name before the site name, because SE's can and will trim it down - the user would rather see "six easy steos for making a photoshop widget" than "yoursite | six easy steps for making..."