according to it, my keywords is far from the Title tag. but the only thing between the title tag and the h1 tag is a whole list of css styles enclosed in a <head> tag. is there a way to move the css's? or it doesn't matter?
I really dont pay attention to the "little" things. So I cant really tell you if doing all these little things help. I just stick to the big ones <title>, Content, and links.
i have all three, but still not ranking well other than MSN. all my CSS are in an external file. there's this in it: <style type="text/css"> <!-- @import url("../presentation.css"); Code (markup): but all the codes still get listed.
This is the type of code I use to link to external .css files and it doesn't seem to show the css code when I view the source code... I dunno, is this what you're looking for? <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../presentation.css"> I'm using it on my baby keepsake footprint site (in sig) if you wana check it out.
Hehehe - I'm a newbie too! But I learnt CSS from a recent book I bought called "Creating Web Pages Bible"... It's a goog little (well 800 pages or so!!) book if anyone's interested. It goes through a lot of basic stuff so lacks depths but makes up for that by providing links to sites that have indepth tutorials... Did it work btw Devin09?
It doesn't really matter much, just apply what "Darkhodge" suggested above. I particularly pay attention to include title, keywords, and descrption, etc
Sounds like the "href" part of the code isn't set to the right place - you should double check that it is pointing at the right address. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="CHECK THIS PART"> Also you could give us the url of the website in question. We could try and take a look at it for you. (that said I'm cr@p at this sort of thing )
Maybe you can try to put the full path of the CSS file like "http://www.yourdomain.com/style.css" instead of "../style.css". Hope this helps.
Wait a sec, if you're talking about your Get Into College website you shouldn't just copy and paste the code I gave you!!! For the pages the following pages: You need this code: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="presentation.css"> Once you start placing the html files into other folders, such as "first_steps", "search", "applying" etc... you need to change the code. I can't really explain it very well so look below: == <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Replace this with..."> Top Level (...-guide.info/XXXXX.html) - "presentation.css" | |--first_steps (...-guide-info/first_steps/XXXXX.html) - "../presentation.css" | . . | | . . |----another_dir (...-guide-info/first_steps/another-dir/XXXXX.html) - "../../presentation.css" | |--search (...-guide.info/search/XXXXX.html) - "../presentation.css" etc... == Alternatively you could just place the following code in all your pages: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.admissions-guide.info/presentation.css"> Lol I should have said that earlier huh? But I do think the first method is better as it allows you to edit your .css file offline and see changes immediately. Another thing I noticed - you may want to blend in your link unit more... Some suggestions 1. Colour - Change the colour of the navigation titles, such as "First Steps" and "The Search Begins" to black. 2. Navigation Title Size - Increase the navigation title size a little bit to match that of the google link unit. 3. Alignment - Place the google link further to the left so it's in line with your other links. 4. 4 or 5 - If the link unit is a 4-link unit change it to a 5-link unit and this will decrease the size of the text displayed on the unit (except the title...). I would say increase the size of your nav links to match the unit's but I don't think that's advisable because of the fact that you're already close to the edge of the blue area + you don't want your links to go any lower down the page. 5. Line Spacing - This one I don't think you should do but you could make the nav links have a line spacing of 150% to match the spacing of the L.unit. 6. Alt Tag - Logo should have alt="keywords" not just alt="header".... maybe something about "college admissions" for your homepage and whatever other keywords you're targeting for other pages. This goes for your other images as well (but obviously watch keyword density) 7. META tags - You might want to add more. Your choice though! Well in fact everything I said above are just suggestions and you could ignore them! Anyway back to META tags... http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/advanced-meta-tag-generator/ Has a META tag generator if you want to use it. It also has loads of other useful tools! Anyway I hope that helped... I've got exams in less than a week so I better go study...