[thelist] Gray Hairs - Google Mini

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 10:03:45 CST 2006


> >  Don't make your site all graphics.

You don't say! And there I was using GD to render JPGs from Databases
all these years.
> Just as a matter of interest, what _are_ the latest SEO techniques?
>
> I regard the following as broadly helpful for SEO, but has anyone a more
> definitive or current set of guidelines?
>
> 1. Nice to have a common keyword in the domain name - but not in the
> "free.get-your-hot-sex-viagra-doodads-here.com" sense
> 2. Keyword rich titles
> 3. About 200 words of well-written copy, including about three natural
> occurrences of relevant keywords
> 4. keywords within anchor tags linking to documents whose titles include
> the same keywords
> 5. keywords near anchor tags linking to relevant documents
> 6. Non-reciprocal links from respected sources that use relevant
> keywords within or near the anchor text

Sounds like a good enough list.

You forgot headings though, or is that what you mean by titles? There
is one title, and six levels of headings. There is also the title
attribute, which - I guess - is not indexed. I found that the stuff
contained in the site's H1 pretty much gets found quickly - at least
with my blog.

Proof: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ugly+border+around+image

One other thing especially in the case of google is to use the google
sitemaps (http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en_GB/navigation.html)

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Chris Heilmann
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