Comments on: 10 SEO Tips Everyone With A Website Should Know

By: dimaks

dimaks — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:28:12 +0000

Thanks for these tips. They are basic but they are the very foundation of any successful SEO ventures out there.

By: James Lloyd

James Lloyd — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:37:22 +0000

Thank you for the tips. This is very well written.

Also, I totally agree that meta tags have really fallen off for Google. A site should still have them, but they really don’t change much as far a Google is concerned.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:47:52 +0000

Thanks a lot for the tips. Great info.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:55:26 +0000

In my experience, meta tags still matter a great deal, altho’ i didn’t know about BOLD.

By: Melayu Boleh

Melayu Boleh — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:14:53 +0000

These are great tips and good thing that I am implementing all of them. I can attest that those are real effective tips that anyone in the internet marketing business should employ.

By: Matt Stenning

Matt Stenning — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:15:23 +0000

Is it good practice to do a internal link back to the same page at the bottom of your page on your pages keyword?

By: Geld Winnen

Geld Winnen — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:20:00 +0000

These are some really useful tips. Thanks and greetings!

By: Zoekmachine Optimalisatie

Zoekmachine Optimalisatie — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:00:04 +0000

I think that this page has a good score. I was looking for some articles about using of bold and strong tags and arrived here.
It is very clear and good explained without going into more details. It looks to me as 10 golden tips for anyone who wants to start with SEO. Thank you!

By: Jag (SEO) Follow

Jag (SEO) Follow — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:02:42 +0000

Great tips for newbie SEOS, cheers

By: Free tutorials

Free tutorials — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:26:44 +0000

thanks for ur TIPS, I have used almost every but Bold, Strong and Emphasis Tags.

By: Albert

Albert — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:59:59 +0000

I still believe in meta “description” tag. If that conveys clear message then the possibility of CTR will be high even in natural listing from search engines.

By: Bluetooth

Bluetooth — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:14:16 +0000

Absolutely fine Dave davis. I always follow this standards for my website but I feel the most important factor which we should never forget is unique content which is the root of any website.
In my seven years of experience I found many techniques for making website appear looks google friendly with respect to visitors.
Also as you said that internal linking should be accurate and the greatest benefit of this is teleportation. ( being an seo you are well aware of it)
Even I was not aware of that but after long research I came to this conclusion.
Thanks dave again for this helpful information.

By: Jurgen Jessurun

Jurgen Jessurun — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:47:42 +0000

I also just stumbled across this page. Great advice, but very standard.

By: Todor Christov

Todor Christov — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:17:29 +0000

Thank you for the advice. I am trying to follow almost all of these rules but it is always useful to read them and remind them once again.

By: Zoekmachine Optimalisatie

Zoekmachine Optimalisatie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:46:50 +0000

It seems that this page good score because i was looking for some articles about using of bold and strong tags and come here.
It is very clear and good explain without going into more details and it looks to me as 10 golden tips for anyone who start with SEO.

By: Aage

Aage — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:20:05 +0000

Thanks for the advice.
I had no idea that search engines recognized and gave weight to bolding, nor that a main keyword in the domain name was important.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:14:05 +0000

Just came across this article and although it was written nearly a year ago all the points mentioned remain valid today. It just goes to show how basic and honest white hat techniques will never fail you if done correctly. Even if Google’s Algorithm changes you can bet on most of these simple techniques staying strong.

Great Advice!

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:58:42 +0000

Just stumbled across this page. Some great advice here!

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:35:25 +0000

Geza, I wouldn’t reccomend it. I would however advise as I said, use XML to parse all text into a nice readable format by engines and users without flash.

Better yet, avoid using flash for text output and navigation. You can create a fantastic looking flash site using standard HTML and navigation.

By: Geza Szekeres

Geza Szekeres — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:11:20 +0000

thanx for the neat list!
does anybody know more about mirror pages? i’ve heard sumtn like if you have mosty flash content (like webapps n stuffs) it’s recommended to build a mirror of the complete architecture and content which will be read by robots only.. is it possible to develop such a virtual site like this, for strictly non-human purposes? or i’m just dreaming.
thx in adv
cheers, geza

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:00:40 +0000

Maybe I was a little hash on avoiding flash completely, but if you do not know what you are doing and do not really need flash, it’s best to avoid it.

About linking to authority sites, I am firm believer that this holds weight, but due to the ten point limit I set in the title and the fact that it is a deep, research driven topic, I decided to leave it out (Along with MANY others).

Thanks for stopping by Erigena.

By: erigena irish web design

erigena irish web design — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:06:26 +0000

good post Dave, however you left out the old ‘link to authority sites” gag (which I think is reasonably important)

regarding “avoid flash completely”, I feel this is not the best advice (however good for novices).. providing [non-flash] equivalent content is what is required, and of course using the accessibility features of flash is essential.

By: Learn SEO

Learn SEO — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:52:00 +0000

I am surprised that there is no "dynamic linking" in that list.

For some resaon many SEO experts use it on there own sites but then don't promote it to there customers. Works great for increasing not only ranking but all PageRank.

Personally I have found that most webmsters don't want to spend the extra money to dynamically link their site, especially if a large site.

Be interested to know what others think about it here?

Cheers, Chris

By: Express

Express — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:15:26 +0000

You’ve written a very good list of advice! Thanks.

1) I’ve noticed that MSN really favours you if you have keywords in your domain! (more then Google)
4) I’ve followed what Matt Cutts from Google was saying on strong/bold issues. First he said Google favoures “strong” a bit but some time later he said that they changed the rule and that strong and bold are completely the same for Google.
9) I agree if by penalty you mean your content might not show in the search results on that particular copied page but it’s hard to image duplicate notent can do other harm .Sites can have duplicate content for perfectly valid reasons like a version of the page for mobile and many others and it would be funny to penalize them. I tend to believe that the duplicate content gets filtered in the search results but doesn’t penalize your site.

By: Jon Eastwood

Jon Eastwood — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:54:16 +0000

Hello Dave,

Are keyword density, keywords meta tag and PR of web page not important?

Jon

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:16:18 +0000

You’re always very welcome to pop in at an time :)

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:40:15 +0000

@Cormac, thanks for the comment. I think I will do an experiment on two brand new domains on a zero competition keyword, or something along the lines of that to see if the effect is even measurable.

@Richard, thanks for the comment too. I was actually making the noodp tag into an image to solve that problem. Content here is basic and will be basic for a while so I have something to refer back to with more in depth posts (Most of which are already written). At least now I have somewhere to rant and rave and not go crazy on other…. search engine optimisation blogs ;)

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:22:29 +0000

Good to see you’re up and running Dave :)

Nice post. Google are increasingly using the META title and description as part of their duplicate content filter. Using the same METAs throughout your site will probably raise a flag.

PS there’s a meta in here that’s breaking validation :)

By: Cormac Moylan

Cormac Moylan — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:55:14 +0000

Yahoo and MSN give a lot more weight to meta tags than google. I don’t think Gbot even reads them but i read somewhere that Slurp! spends 30% of his ‘botting’ on meta tagging.

By: Elaine Burke

Elaine Burke — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:36:52 +0000

Thats assuming your lucky enough to have a dmoz listing.Some of us are not quite as fortunate.