The other issue is that those top ranked sites have a lot of other sites
linking to them. Relevant linking also drives Google's search engine
rankings and a lot of other search engines have moved to that too.
It isn't just about the content picked up by the search bots, but the
massive number of
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
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
At the web shop for the U.S. House of Representatives, we recommend that
our offices use Dublin Core and a number of other meta tags. The
specific tags that we recommend are set out at
http://cao.house.gov/web-standards/best-practices.pdf#page=186.
Elliot
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
