SEO Tips: On-Page Optimization

Only the search engines can answer that one.

Each of the search engines "could" do a lot of things.

 

Good post but I disagree with targeting one keyword to a page. It is much easier to target several similar keywords to one page. If I target 'web design UK' do you think I should make another page for 'web Design Company'?

 

Yes, that definitely calls for two pages if you want to win both SERPS.

I agree that it is "easier" to target serveral keywords to one page. However, it is not "more effective" to do so.

Do you want to compete or do you want to win?

 

The tip you gave concerning making images on your pages links to the page that they are displayed on came as completely new to me and thanks for the great tip. My only question is if we could simply use "#" in the link and it would have the same effect concerning onpage optimization. I am saying this because I don't want my visitors to have to reload the page when they click an image thinking its a link. For example on my site i could do:

<a href="#"><IMG SRC="Images/appetite.jpg" alt="Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction Discography" title="Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction Discography"></a>

After being clicked the image link would stay on the same page without having to reload the page. Do you see any problems with this Mr. Will Spencer, or anyone else?

 

My web design home page ranks for at least 10 competitive keywords in Google. I don’t see any point in just targeting one keyword per page.

 

James:

That # idea is pretty interesting; I never thought of that!

 

Sorry, but could anyone please explain why. I have surely read this "rule" before, but I've never seen it being actually thoroughly explained.

Yes, I've also read something similar in some SEO-related article back then, however, it stated that the best page-size is if it's <100 KB; IIRC because of the way search-engines cache the documents.


tayiper

 

Why? Because the search engines weight H1, H2, H3, etc... the "why" is "because the search engines say so!"

The search engines use these factors in their ranking algorithms, so we use these factors in our page design.

Some search engines will only read the first 100KB of a page.

There is a lot of room between 500 words and 100KB.

 

Yes. Remember that spiders don't read graphics or flash or sound files. You can pack a heck of a lot of text into 100kb.

 

Thanks for posting these tips.

 

Nice stuff mate, learnt a lot

 

This is a good idea, but don't you normally put the title attribute in the with the link rather than the image:

<a href="#" title="Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction Discography"><IMG SRC="Images/appetite.jpg" alt="Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction Discography"></a>

This was actually something I was going to comment from the original post, I think it goes a long way to giving you another "edge" when you give a title attirbute to ATLEAST the sitewide links, often in your nav bar.

Other than that top post, I personally think the majority of this stuff is twice as important as the off-page optimisation. If you create a quality site that other people actually find useful people will naturally link to you because you are a great information source or service, so off-page optimisation at least in my opinion is more about working on your on-page content anyway - but that's just my spin on it.

 

Burta:

According to my test at Do search engines index title attributes on links?, none of the major search engines index title attributes on links.

 

Very true, it is simply because webdesigners and programmer don't use the title tags for the link / "a href" tag. It doesn't serve a purpose doing that except for documentation.

What is important is the ALT attribute in the Image Tag. This is important because it gives a text value whenever there is a browser that has been set to turn off the images, for faster browsing. It is more reasonable for search engines to crawl or put into their database the Alternate Text, than the title.

 

Nice post, but I think Inter-linking posts is also important for on-site SEO.

 

Hello Friend,

Really good tips for on page optimzation , i will follow your rule .

 

Thanks for sharing with us important tips of seo optimization.

 

this thread have seo kings..thanks for shearing your vast knowledge of on page seo.

 

Does the underscores replacing hyphens not effective sure?

 

Thanks for sharing that post Minstrel and to you too Will for nicely summing up on-page SEO strategies.