Yesterday i was in the Universal and Blended Search session at SES San Jose. Shashi Seth from Cooliris provided what i thought was a rather interesting statistic: in the typical search, searchers hit the “next page” link less than 20% of the time. This means that less than 20% of searches actually get to the…
Tag Archive: Search Engines
Stop Wasting Your ALT Attributes and Make them Work for You
When providing SEO advice on the topic of website design, we often warn against placing important content into images. This is because search engines can’t read images like a person can. To them, an image with text is just an image. They really have no idea what the image is or if, in fact, it…
How to Fix the Bloated (Tables and HTML) Code that is Jacking Up Your SEO
Yesterday I discussed code bloat by looking at how we can move style sheets and JavaScripts off the page in order to clean the coding up quite a bit. I this third post about cleaning up bloated code I wanted to address Tables and other typical causes of bloated HTML.
How to Fix the Bloated (CSS and JavaScript) Code that is Jacking Up Your SEO
Last Thursday I started a conversation about how code bloat can effect your site’s performance with the search engines. Today I’m going to map some specific types of code bloat and very briefly, and non-technically, show you you can eliminate the bloat to improve your pages performance for both visitors and search engines. There are…
How to Fix the Bloated Code that is Jacking Up Your SEO
There are a lot of little things that can junk up your code, but, for the most part, the search engines don’t really care. It doesn’t matter to them if your HTML validates or if you keep your code “clean” or not. When it comes to analyzing your pages for search engine rankings, none of…
How to Move to a New Domain With Minimal Ranking Loss and Downtime
Moving your site to a new domain is remarkably similar to moving to a new physical address. In some cases it’s much easier, you don’t have to pack up, or load or unload a U-Haul truck, but there are other considerations that you have to take into account to make sure your visitors continue to…
Directory Links = Paid Links. Or do they?
As the debate over paid links continues to wage a lot of innocent business owners get caught in the crossfire. They often hear bits and pieces of information and then have to make decisions based on that information. Rarely is the average business owner as fully informed as the average SEO. Heck, even the average…
How to Create Effective Site Navigation that Leads Visitors to Your Most Important Content
When performing a site architectural review, one of the first things I look at is the site’s main navigation elements. This includes top, side and footer navigation. Together, they all play an important role in both the ability of the search engines to properly spider your website, as well as allowing your visitors to find…
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