In my experience, if you basically follow the web accessibility
initiative ( http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/ ), you'll
help your site do better on the code side. Google bot is a blind
browser. So start with level 1 (roughly the same as section 508
compliance). You can test for 508 here:
http://bobby.watchfire.com
or
http://www.contentquality.com/Default.asp
Also, at the end of the day, the best thing you can do for SEO is
create great content that gets people linking to certain articles
with keyword linked text. Of course, this could change tomorrow with
an algorithm update.
Semantic markup and good page structure and error free valid xhtml/
css markup are far more important than what you stuff in your
keywords tag.
On Dec 5, 2006, at 9:31 AM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
Do either of these things actually *work* for SEO? Usually the
conventional wisdom about SEO is wrong, and the stuff that goes
into the head tag is getting less and less important. IIRC it seems
the best thing to do is simply have valid HTML markup, with proper
tag hierarchy (i.e. header tags followed by contents).
If "post - blog" is better than "blog - post", why do so many sites
use the latter?
And putting all categories and archives into the header seems a bit
excessive - that would be adding 20 lines to my header tag, and
again, does it actually *do* anything?
On Dec 5, 2006, at 4:01 AM, Frederic de Villamil wrote:
I was working on my typo blog yesterday evening and noticed 2 little
things that may help typo blogs to be better referenced
1/ in the <title></title> field, put the post title before the blog
title.
You just need to replace the page_title function in app/helpers/
articles_helper.rb by
def page_title
if @page_title
# this is where the page title prefix (string) should go
@page_title + " - " + (this_blog.title_prefix ? "#
{this_blog.blog_name || "Typo"}" : '')
else
this_blog.blog_name || "Typo"
end
end
The second one is to add the categories and archives as links in the
header :
<link rel="section" href="/articles/2006/12" title="December 2006" />
... same for categories
And I was too lazy to dive in the code yet.
--
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.tildesoft.com
_______________________________________________
Typo-list mailing list
[email protected]
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
--
John Athayde
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Meticulous | www.meticulous.com (work)
Honor by August | www.honorbyaugust.com (sound: rock band)
Rotoscope | www.rotoscope.com (sound: rock band)
Boboroshi & Kynz | www.boboroshiandkynz.com (sound: electronic)
Personal Weblog | www.boboroshi.com (play)
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the
Governor
November 11, 1755
_______________________________________________
Typo-list mailing list
[email protected]
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
