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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 up backwards, making sloppy work of their SEO and sabotaging their efforts.
Let’s say you sell socks and your CMS insists on putting your site name on every page. Make this change…
Instead of this: Marathon Sports …
Google, Meta Tags, SEO Tips »
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 the content of the site, which may not be what you want to show up when you’re trying to get a searcher to visit your site. So it is important to pay attention to that …
Meta Tags, Robots Tags, Source Code »
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 engine rankings, google rankings”>
</head>
Your description should be an interesting description of your product or service, using your most important keywords. It should only be a couple of sentences long – take a look at how …
Meta Tags, Robots Tags »
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 no need to tag pages with content values of INDEX or FOLLOW.
If you use both a robots.txt file and robots meta tags
If the robots.txt and meta tag instructions for a page conflict, Googlebot follows the …
