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Cmb: Several markup changes. URL correction. Words2Watch corrections.

2022-11-13T18:44:36Z

Several markup changes. URL correction. Words2Watch corrections.

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	~~Meta-data~~ is information about the website in the header portion of the ~~webpage~~. This information is used by search engines to determine the relevance of the ~~give~~ page to the search request it is processing ~~at any given time~~. This data is ~~constantly~~ collected by various means by ~~all~~ search engines such as Google, Yahoo~~, Ask~~ and ~~others~~. The following ~~list~~ is a partial list of things to consider when building ~~and publishing~~ a ~~web site.~~		Metadata is information about the website in the header portion of the web page. This information is used by search engines to determine the relevance of the page to the search request it is processing. This data is collected by various means by search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. The following is a partial list of things to consider when building a website.

	~~GoDaddy hosting has a web site analysis tool to examine your site and report how each of these rules is violated. The report is shaky at best but it helps in identifying your~~ website~~'s weaknesses~~.

	== Title Tags ==		== Title Tags ==
	Well-constructed title tags contain the main keyword for the page, followed by a brief description of the page content. It will be less than 65 characters and avoid using stop words such as: a, if, the, then, and, an, to~~, etc~~. Your title tag should also be limited to the use of alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and commas.		Well-constructed title tags contain the main keyword for the page, followed by a brief description of the page content. It will be less than 65 characters and avoid using stop words such as: ''a'', ''if'', ''the'','' then'', ''and'', ''an'', ''to''. Your title tag should also be limited to the use of alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and commas.

	== Description Tags ==		== Description Tags ==
	Good description tags contain information about the page's content and persuade search engine users to visit your web site. They should be between 25 and 35 words in length.		Good description tags contain information about the page's content and persuade search engine users to visit your web site. They should be between 25 and 35 words in length.

	~~== Keywords Tags ==~~
	~~Your keywords meta tag should contain between 5-10 keywords or keyword phrases that are also found in page content~~.

	== Heading Tags ==		== Heading Tags ==
	Each page of your site should use at least the H1 heading tag for the search engines that examine it when crawling your site.		Each page of your site should use at least the ''H1'' heading tag for the search engines that examine it when crawling your site.

	== Page Content ==		== Page Content ==
	Pages should have between 300 and 700 words of descriptive content that contains ~~the~~ keywords ~~specified in the keywords meta tag for the page. A page's meta tag keywords should also be those that occur most frequently on the page~~.		Pages should have between 300 and 700 words of descriptive content that contains relevant keywords.

	== Proper Navigation ==		== Proper Navigation ==
	Each page of your site should contain links to ~~every~~ other ~~page~~ so search engine spiders can find every page. This is a critical step for the proper indexing and page rank distribution of your site.		Each page of your site should contain links to all other pages so search engine spiders can find every page. This is a critical step for the proper indexing and page rank distribution of your site.

	== Proper Sitemap ==		== Proper Sitemap ==
	It's important to use two site maps for your ~~website--an~~ XML version and a static version. The XML table protocol is explained in detail on ~~http~~://www.sitemaps.org. The static version should sit on a static HTML page and contain links to ~~every other page~~.		It's important to use two site maps for your website—an XML version and a static version. The XML table protocol is explained in detail on [https://www.sitemaps.org/ sitemaps.org]. The static version should sit on a static HTML page and contain links to all pages of your site.

	== Controlled Crawling ==		== Controlled Crawling ==
	It's important that search engine spiders find your [[Robots.txt file]] that guides spiders to pages and directories you want crawled and denies them entry to ~~protected~~ areas ~~of your site~~.		It's important that search engine spiders find your [[Robots.txt file]] that guides spiders to pages and directories you want crawled and denies them entry to areas that are off limits.

	== Duplicate Content/Tags ==		== Duplicate Content/Tags ==
	Because search engines treat ~~web sites~~ as a grouping of pages and not a single entity, each page on your site should be unique so that the tags and content differ between each page. Doing so increases the number of pages that will rank.		Because search engines treat websites as a grouping of pages and not a single entity, each page on your site should be unique so that the tags and content differ between each page. Doing so increases the number of pages that will rank.

	== Word Density ==		== Word Density ==

Wilsonge: −Category:Search Engine Optimization; +Category:Search Engine Optimisation using HotCat

2013-07-12T14:54:43Z

−Category:Search Engine Optimization; +Category:Search Engine Optimisation using HotCat

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Samwilsonau: /* Controlled Crawling */ Simplify.

2013-03-15T00:18:53Z

Controlled Crawling: Simplify.

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	== Controlled Crawling ==		== Controlled Crawling ==
	It's important that search engine spiders find your ~~robots~~.txt file that guides spiders to pages and directories you want crawled and denies entry to protected areas of your site. ~~More information can be found at * [[Robots.txt file\|Robots.txt]]~~		It's important that search engine spiders find your [[Robots.txt file]] that guides spiders to pages and directories you want crawled and denies them entry to protected areas of your site.

	== Duplicate Content/Tags ==		== Duplicate Content/Tags ==

Tom Hutchison: /* Controlled Crawling */ update link, moving robots.txt to robots.txt file to prevent rewrite problems

2013-03-10T16:01:10Z

Controlled Crawling: update link, moving robots.txt to robots.txt file to prevent rewrite problems

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	== Controlled Crawling ==		== Controlled Crawling ==
	It's important that search engine spiders find your robots.txt file that guides spiders to pages and directories you want crawled and denies entry to protected areas of your site. More information can be found at * [[Robots.txt\|Robots.txt]]		It's important that search engine spiders find your robots.txt file that guides spiders to pages and directories you want crawled and denies entry to protected areas of your site. More information can be found at * [[Robots.txt file\|Robots.txt]]

	== Duplicate Content/Tags ==		== Duplicate Content/Tags ==

Horus 68: /* Controlled Crawling */

2013-02-10T20:14:56Z

Controlled Crawling

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	== Controlled Crawling ==		== Controlled Crawling ==
	It's important that search engine spiders find your robots.txt file that guides spiders to pages and directories you want crawled and denies entry to protected areas of your site. More information can be found at ~~http://www~~.~~robotstxt~~.~~org/robotstxt.html~~		It's important that search engine spiders find your robots.txt file that guides spiders to pages and directories you want crawled and denies entry to protected areas of your site. More information can be found at * [[Robots.txt\|Robots.txt]]

	== Duplicate Content/Tags ==		== Duplicate Content/Tags ==
	Because search engines treat web sites as a grouping of pages and not a single entity, each page on your site should be unique so that the tags and content differ between each page. Doing so increases the number of pages that will rank.		Because search engines treat web sites as a grouping of pages and not a single entity, each page on your site should be unique so that the tags and content differ between each page. Doing so increases the number of pages that will rank.

Mvangeest: Added category

2011-01-08T18:13:16Z

Added category

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	Pages should contain 300 to 700 words of unique and descriptive content.		Pages should contain 300 to 700 words of unique and descriptive content.

	[[Category:Tips and tricks]][[Category:Article Management]]		[[Category:Tips and tricks]]
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Batch1211 at 11:08, 21 September 2010

2010-09-21T11:08:56Z

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	== Word Density ==		== Word Density ==
	Pages should contain 300 to 700 words of unique and descriptive content.		Pages should contain 300 to 700 words of unique and descriptive content.

			[[Category:Tips and tricks]][[Category:Article Management]]

Rodcaverly: List of 10 website characteristics to consider for SEO

2010-09-16T19:34:40Z

List of 10 website characteristics to consider for SEO

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	~~{{cookiejar}}~~		Meta-data is information about the website in the header portion of the webpage. This information is used by search engines to determine the relevance of the give page to the search request it is processing at any given time. This data is constantly collected by various means by all search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Ask and others. The following list is a partial list of things to consider when building and publishing a web site.

			GoDaddy hosting has a web site analysis tool to examine your site and report how each of these rules is violated. The report is shaky at best but it helps in identifying your website's weaknesses.

			== Title Tags ==
			Well-constructed title tags contain the main keyword for the page, followed by a brief description of the page content. It will be less than 65 characters and avoid using stop words such as: a, if, the, then, and, an, to, etc. Your title tag should also be limited to the use of alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and commas.

			== Description Tags ==
			Good description tags contain information about the page's content and persuade search engine users to visit your web site. They should be between 25 and 35 words in length.

			== Keywords Tags ==
			Your keywords meta tag should contain between 5-10 keywords or keyword phrases that are also found in page content.

			== Heading Tags ==
			Each page of your site should use at least the H1 heading tag for the search engines that examine it when crawling your site.

			== Page Content ==
			Pages should have between 300 and 700 words of descriptive content that contains the keywords specified in the keywords meta tag for the page. A page's meta tag keywords should also be those that occur most frequently on the page.

			== Proper Navigation ==
			Each page of your site should contain links to every other page so search engine spiders can find every page. This is a critical step for the proper indexing and page rank distribution of your site.

			== Proper Sitemap ==
			It's important to use two site maps for your website--an XML version and a static version. The XML table protocol is explained in detail on http://www.sitemaps.org. The static version should sit on a static HTML page and contain links to every other page.

			== Controlled Crawling ==
			It's important that search engine spiders find your robots.txt file that guides spiders to pages and directories you want crawled and denies entry to protected areas of your site. More information can be found at http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

			== Duplicate Content/Tags ==
			Because search engines treat web sites as a grouping of pages and not a single entity, each page on your site should be unique so that the tags and content differ between each page. Doing so increases the number of pages that will rank.

			== Word Density ==
			Pages should contain 300 to 700 words of unique and descriptive content.

Chris Davenport: New page: {{cookiejar}}

2008-06-19T19:22:59Z

New page: {{cookiejar}}

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