Article Idea:
Effective SEO through good code structure
suggested by Adriana Iordan on 2006/10/16
How to have good structure of the markup from an SEO and usability perspective?
Some basic information about improving the source code to rank better in search engines and increase the user friendliness:
# Avoid classical 404 error pages # Keep away from orphan pages # Use 301 redirect pages # Create a sitemap # Don’t overuse dynamic pages # Put .CSS and JavaScript into external files # Make sure you have well formatted [X]HTML
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6 people said yes. | 2 people said no.
Anders Gustavson
2 Reputation points
Posted 2006/11/16 @ 09:40AM with
It would be a good idea to also include something about structuring the pages semantically right, ie usinhg h-tags for headings and ul/li for lists etc.
Adriana Iordan
34 Reputation points
Posted 2006/11/19 @ 09:55AM with
Also: * Adding Header Tags * ALT tags for images * Link Titles * bulleted lists and tables * w3c and SEO
Livia Labate
20 Reputation points
Posted 2007/03/06 @ 18:34PM with
I’m thinking this is all old hat – thought it would be nice to have it in an article format for those who are not familiar, but really, the meat of the problem these days is beyond the page. I’d like to see that type of discussion/guidance on SEO when you are not dealing with easy to manage things like HTML pages. Point 5 above is a really innapropriate advice since more and more the industry is making use of more dynamic methods and is getting positive results out that.
Christina Wodtke
540 Reputation points
Posted 2007/03/07 @ 00:10AM with
We don’t current reprint articles—what are you proposing?
Adriana Iordan
34 Reputation points
Posted 2007/03/15 @ 03:27AM with
Sorry for the late reply.
Yes, HTML pages are easy, that’s why I wrote another article about search engine optimization of Flash content:
http://www.avangate.com/articles/flash-seo_55.htm
I am aware of the level of your audience. The article I mentioned was just basic information that I intend to take as a starting point.
Richard Johnson
0 Reputation points
Posted 2007/05/21 @ 12:30PM with
And where did you want to go with it? What would be the final benefit statement to the reader? What is the real world application. It would be great to specifically address point 5. This would help companies struggling with handling SEO on their dynamic sites.