While watching a video on how to tie shoelaces (most of us do it the wrong way, resulting in sloppy looking bows that come undone), I realized this could be applied to website optimization. Specifically, a good number of people have the right idea when it comes to (source code) titles, but they set it [...]

It’s “common SEO knowledge” that your meta description does not help your Google rankings. I’m not so sure I agree with this assessment, though. The meta description is the snippet that shows up in a Google search below your title. If you don’t have a description in your source code, Google will pull a snippet from [...]

Meta tags are located in your source code. The head portion of your source code should contain 3 meta tags: title description keywords For best results list them in the order shown below: <title>SEO – Learn Search Engine Optimization</title> <meta name=“description” content=“Learn search engine optimization to obtain the highest Google and other search engine rankings possible!”> <meta name=“keywords” content=“seo, search engine optimization, search [...]

The following information comes straight from Google. Multiple content values We recommend that you place all content values in one meta tag. This keeps the meta tags easy to read and reduces the chance for conflicts. For instance: <META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”> Unnecessary content values By default, Googlebot will index a page and follow links to it. So there’s [...]