Hi all,
I'm just curious to know what other people do these days with the header of
their document? What is best practice for:
- Good search engine rankings
- Best charset for English text (utf-8, right?)
- Do we need robots - all anymore?
- Any Accessibility issues? (Can't think of any)
- Does
Hi Paul
I recently read a interview with SEO expert Frank Paul. The gist of the
interview was that description, title and keywords were just as important today
as they have ever been. This lead me to go read his website and find out in
more detail what the interview only skimmed the surface
2009/7/23 Paul Collins p.coll...@twentyfirst.com:
- Good search engine rankings
- Best charset for English text (utf-8, right?)
- Do we need robots - all anymore?
- Any Accessibility issues? (Can't think of any)
- Does anyone bother with descriptions, keywords anymore?
- Dublin Core
Btw, the minimal valid header for *HTML5*:
!DOCTYPE html
html
head
meta charset=utf-8 /
title Your Title Goes Here /title
/head
I really love the simplicity of this.
Cheers
Gregorio Espadas
http://gespadas.com
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Paul Collins
Hi Paul
From an SEO perspective there is great value put on keywords and titles
providing they reflect the content within the document.
However if the keywords are over proliferated within the document the index
engines tend to pick up on this and mark them down as 'suspect'
Content is king!
I am agree with Paul's comment, there are numbers of meta tags which need to
be use from SEO point of view. I will describe few here:
- Google may provide one meta tag to verify your website ownership
- Yahoo will also provide the same
- You can use geo target meta
Thanks for your replies everyone...
I didn't know Metadata had any influence at all anymore! Thanks for letting me
know... Need to get back onto my own sites and add it :)
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Good question—I’d like to see what some other responses are. Even with
the advent of HTML5 I’m still firmly in the XHTML 1.0 Strict camp
currently and typically add to the head you illustrated:
• meta http-equiv=content-language content= /
• link rel=license href= /
…along with a few other
Hello,
Could anyone please give me information about IE8 and testing for
accessibility and 508 compliancy? If anyone has links to this
information that would be very helpful too.
Regards,
Kevin
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This might be pushing this slight off ‘standard’.
I noticed the question asked about headers and ‘good search ranking’. In
respect to the title tag one of the most useful and simple optimisation
for search is a clear and descriptive title. This is often what users use
to make decisions on the
There's some interesting info and referenced articles on this Sitepoint
blog concerning HTML5
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/07/24/google-html5-and-standards/
Don't feel totally comfortable with Google setting standards 'by
default' to suit their operational requirements...but maybe
Do a search for something small to medium scale, for instance a
doctor's surgery, a restaurant, a musician, a theatre etc. (I guess a
large proportion of internet searches are for things like this). Now
have a look at the number one entry returned in your search engine and
examine the
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