I have been mentioned, within my blog, about SEO Strategies so I will give you 9 general recomendations which will help you to position your portals and developments at the top of the rankings:
- URLs or Links Optimization: When Googles, or any other seach engine, indexes a page, it also uses the info at links to that page, as well as it does to the links within the page. Try to include in the link text or in within the URL any word who might be significant!!. For example if using wordpress select the option which include the title of the post in the url, and not the ID.
- Bloguer PageRank: Create not less than 3 contents in your blog in the weekly basis, and try to get linked by other bloguers, ....links from other sites do always help. I still remember a friend who created 10 blogs and linked one to the other..., this trick helps a little at the beginning but who is able to maintain 10 blogsss??. I still laugh at him when I meet him and joke about that funny idea.
- Microformats or microtags: These are XHTML standard solutions used for specific cases. Some examples can be
rel="nofollow"which google will discard for a vote to that page in the pagerank, or addingrel="tag"to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink is an author-designated "tag" (or keyword/subject) for the current page. - Tags: Always include tags in all your contents. Those will be registered by all the tags search engine (del.icio.us, digg, reddit, flickr, technotati, etc.).
- Social Networking/Media: You have many friends, ..more than you might think, ..so publish your site by your name at msn, facebook, Googletalk......
- Use the Personalized search engine by Google.
- Wikis: Set the name of your Portal at any wiki!!. Start with wikipedia.
- Peek on your visitors: which words are used by your visitors to get to your portal??. Used those words to increase your post or contents about those topics.
- Friendly Titles.
Tags??. What do you mean with tags??. Maybe the tags cloud which is at many blogs??
ResponderSuprimirI mean meta tags. For example:
ResponderSuprimir<meta name="description" content="SEO strategies, 9 stretegies to conquer the search engines" />
<meta name="keywords" content="SEO" />
Yes, meta information is esential for SEO purposes, but you have to review your SEO guidelines, I think you need an update! hehe
ResponderSuprimirFor example, nofollow attribute is not effective anymore, at least not in the same way as it was before.
I´ll send you some information my friend.
Keep going!
Cheers
Oh my god!!, ..life goes so fast!!.
ResponderSuprimirYou are half right, I mean nofollow attribute is becoming less effective for sculpting a site's PageRank, but it is still effective because it works as it always has.
At any case I just used it as an example for explaining microformats, ..actually if you want my opinion I never considered as a tag as many people do, but always as an attribute, ..and i do not use it often.