My SEO Tips

[NYCBORN]

These are all over the net but I will just briefly post some that I find to be valuable.

1) Unique Titles for every page.
2) Proper usage of Headings, H1, H2 ect. giving proper weight to keywords.
3) Alt tag used for images.
4) Good balance of content to keywords. Don't spam keywords it could adversely affect how Search Engines see your page.
5) Using Keywords in the directory/path or filename.
6) Build backlinks on relevant sites with proper Anchor for increased keyword rankings.
7) Use nofollow tags on links to pages that have no relevance or duplicate content.
8) Don't duplicate sites? Can totally screw you up. (Not 100 percent sure of this but I tested it on a .com and .net domain and it screwed me for a couple months.)

Feel free to addon or correct.

[mawt]

I use php includes on my site... how do I have a unique title for each page? Do i take the title tag out of the header and add it to the page which the content is on?

[minnseoelite]

If you know PHP you can have the pages Title tags generated from where ever you choose whether it be the pages H1 tag or whatever. I dont know PHP myself so I don't know how to call these functions but typically the H1 tag is considered the pages main title so having the Title Tag generated from this would make sense.

[NYCBORN]

You have your header in a include? Might want to separate the title and meta info for each page so that it is unique.

[grace]

thanks for the tips :) my title is also in my header include..i don't have the time to name each page something different haha

[Kasami2k4]

Tyyy lots NYC =p

[mawt]

I thought the point of using includes was so the info was the same... lol. but i think i might change it now.

[fapsian]

thanks for the tips :) my title is also in my header include..i don't have the time to name each page something different haha


Same here.

However, is there a way to have your directory name as your title tag???

[grace]

Same here.

However, is there a way to have your directory name as your title tag???

What directory name? the public_html folder? how would you rename that to your title if it's like really long haha.

[minnseoelite]

You can have your Title tag generated from what ever source you choose, you just have to create the needed code for it.

[fapsian]

I meant, if my layout was in Beyonce folder, would it be possible to show it as Beyonce Myspace Layout - thats what I meant when I said - {title} Myspace Layout

[minnseoelite]

Yes as long as you create the needed PHP code for it

[grace]

Yes as long as you create the needed PHP code for it

what is the code?

[minnseoelite]

sorry i stated a few posts back i dont know how to write PHP code....i am sure if you posted a thread asking for PHP help someone here could help you with that part there are a few programmers on here

[nsmchris]

In MSRS, you can split URL2FOLDER and then get a folder name based on its depth.

i.e.

$folders=split("/", $url2folder);
title=$folders[4];

chris...

[Greg-J]

<?=$meta_title?>

Then set your variables before the page loads.

[Assailant]

You have to find out the variable...for example your title tags should look something like this

<title> <? echo $page; ?> </title>

or something like this:

<title> <? echo PAGE_TITLE; ?> </title>

[Jordan]

^ I tried the above methods, but wouldn't that mean you'd have to have the variable before the include so it shows up? im prolly not makin sense.

[Assailant]

it depends on how your script is setup...I coded mine to work off a template system for convenience.

give me more details of what you're trying to accomplish so I can help you

[Ajay]

question about duplicate content...

I duplicated a site earlier and it totally messed up my rankings :/

I'm just wondering if i have dupe filenames of just images on two different sites, are the search engines going to penalize me? or can i get away with that.

[minnseoelite]

question about duplicate content...

I duplicated a site earlier and it totally messed up my rankings :/

I'm just wondering if i have dupe filenames of just images on two different sites, are the search engines going to penalize me? or can i get away with that.

Search engines cannot read images but they can read the file names and image ALT tags, as well as folder names, and any similar text on the pages so if those are the same then yes it will potentially hurt you and cause your pages to end up in the supplemental results

[Ajay]

Search engines cannot read images but they can read the file names and image ALT tags, as well as folder names, and any similar text on the pages so if those are the same then yes it will potentially hurt you and cause your pages to end up in the supplemental results


gahhh! that's not good. a lot of the filenames for images on my site are the same, since I just moved over a bunch of glitters. I guess I have to put a block on robots.txt and rename a bunch of crap.. thanks for the info.

[minnseoelite]

well if your new site has not been indexed yet you probably have a couple of days to change things around before google even visits your site.....generally google will only crawl about 2 - 3 pages per visit

[Ajay]

well if your new site has not been indexed yet you probably have a couple of days to change things around before google even visits your site.....generally google will only crawl about 2 - 3 pages per visit

Yeah, I caught it in time, hasn't been indexed yet. phew.

[Selena]

Back to the title thing, to solve that problem for me I just set my title as

<?php echo $title; ?>

and then on the top of each page, above the include for my header i have

<? $title = 'Sitename.com - Whatever I want my title as';?>

Pretty easy way for those of you who don't feel like using the other method.

[NYCBORN]

Very nice and easy to do Selena, thanks.