Friday, January 05, 2007

Some SEO tips for your site

Some SEO tips for your site



Every sites has to have more backward links to itself in order to have bigger PageRank™ and better place in SERP - Search Engine Results Pages.

Before you start to make your site popular make sure you follow these optimisation rules:



  • First: The site has to be compliant to standarts of W3 consortium. Keeping these standarts will not only let more browsers inteprete your site's pages the "better way", but provide backward links with higher PageRank™. The more pages has your site, the more backward links


  • The more backward link, the higher PageRank™

  • Use descriptive alt attributes of img tags and descriptive title attributes of href tags. Search engines (especially Google) index the content of alt and title attributes. Sometimes alt attributes are the only way to describe a picture/foto.

  • Meta tags are must! If you don't know how to construct them you can use a Metatag generator. Creating meta tags must not to be just to have them. There are some rules which are:

    - relevance between the title tag of the page and its content meta tag;

    - relevance between the description meta tag and the content of the page;

    - relevance between the keywords meta tag and the content of the page;

    In other words the title tag, keywords and description meta tags has to be relevant to page content. Do not use descriptions or titles like: "We are number one" or "The best of the best". Avoid keywords that do not present in page content. You can keep these rules by creating dynamic meta tags. You can use Metatag analyzer to check if everithing with your pages is OK.


  • Sometimes webmaters face the problem how to remove session ids like PHPSESSID= from their sites' URLs. Beside the security risk, session ids in URLs can lead to indexing the same page as many pages and search engines could treat this like duplicate content and punish your site. There are some methods to fix this:

    1.If you have access to settings in php.ini set session.use_trans_sid = 0;

    2.In php files like this: <? ini_set('session.use_trans_sid','0'); ?>, but that is not always possible and depends on the PHP version you use;

    3.By using apache directives: php_value session.use_trans_sid 0;


    If there are already indexed URLs containing PHPSESSID and your web server is Apache you can get rid of those URL's this way:


    Options +FollowSymlinks

    RewriteEngine On



    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^PHPSESSID=.*$

    RewriteRule .* %{REQUEST_URI}? [R=301,L]

  • Include in your robots.txt the following line:
    Disallow: /*PHPSESSID


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posted by SEOist @ 2:42 PM