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How to add strong SEO info in word press website? Please need full answer. Thanks. I want to make my website easily to be search regarding TAGS or search keywords, related to my website. I want my web to be on first search page. Thanks
There are plenty of SEO plugins available for WordPress, some better than others, but in order to truly optimize your site for search engines, you need to get a firm grasp on SEO practices in general. You'd have to learn what type of content you want, html structure, links, etc. Your best bet is to search and read plenty of articles about website SEO, and then, if you've got specific questions, ask them instead.
A quick search returned a few resources produced by Google:
How Google Search Works
How Does Google Search Work (Youtube Video)
Steps to a Google-Friendly Site
Mozilla has created a nice Beginner SEO Guide as well.
Something else to keep in mind is that Google recently announced changes to searches on Mobile Devices. If your site is not optimized for mobile devices, your ranking will drop. So make sure to build a responsive site.
SEO is a constantly evolving aspect of the web, so you will also need to continually follow industry trends in order to maintain strong SEO.
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I'm rather new to webdev, and I quickly got the impression that all websites should be made screen reader accessible. Documentation is written with a tone that seems to exert that the website must be made screen reader accessible as the default choice. I've read about how to make it accessible, but nothing about why. I suspect that anyone asking "why" will be shunned as insensitive, discriminating, etc., none of which is relevant to the objective of this question.
I ask for an unbiased and objective list of pros and cons of making a website screen reader accessible. This is to inform webdevs interested in this (including myself) on when and why they should or shouldn't make their website accessible. Here is what I have so far:
Pros:
Website is accessible to users using screen readers
Compliance for companies that require accessibility
Cons:
Additional development time/expense
Additional markup -> bigger files -> hosting costs
Full compliance restricts layout/design
What other considerations are there, direct or indirect? Does making a website screen reader accessible make it somehow better even for unimpaired users? Are non-accessible websites without any accessibility requirements ever penalized?
Good accurate markup in HTML will get this for free - along with accurate rendering in browsers.
It also aids search engines.
The design should be left to CSS. The screen readers do not care about this.
Also blind people, partially sighted customers are not to be sniffed at.
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I've seen some websites where the number of keywords in a single HTML meta tag was 1284 and I was wondering if this is good in terms of improving SEO. Obviously having a few keywords is good but is it always more keywords = better SEO?
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What you have to remember is that search engines are designed to rank the best websites the highest, not to rank the website that wants to use the best SEO the highest. A website that appears original, genuine, and a good site for users (which is what search engines like) will do far better than a website that looks like it's trying to deceive search engines. Listing a lot of keywords, would look deceptive to search engines and would be frowned upon.
There is a saying in SEO, content is king. It makes a lot more sense to focus on original, authentic content that is beneficial to users rather than just overloading keywords. Search engines like those kinds of sites.
In addition, the top search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo do not use the meta keyword tag anymore. That tag has lost most of it's relevance to SEO.
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I know there are more posts like this. None of them seem to answer my question though.
Let's say i have two websites. One is a Wordpress site, the other is a self scripted html site.
Both websites are the same in text and so.
The websites just contain a couple of pages with good keyword-rich text. No fancy things.
If i place both websites online, which one will rank out higher in Google?
PS: I know Wordpress has a lot of fancy plug-ins for SEO. I am not counting these in this equation. People say things like: "Google just likes Wordpress's structure. But a couple of HTML documents are much easier and faster to crawl."
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It would be difficult to ascertain which would rank higher without seeing the code of both websites side by side. If you do publish both websites together to test then you will probably be punished for having duplicate content.
WordPress's HTML structure and semantics have been created with
accessibility in mind which is what Google would give weight to.
If you use friendly and relative filenames/URLs as WordPress does,
this is also a plus.
If you use simple HTML files as #Paul D. Waite mentions above then
indeed this will be faster to crawl than dynamic pages like PHP.
I would conclude if your website is relatively simple and you don't need to update it regularly then, a static website would rank better as it's just content and none of the fuss.
Don't forget inbound links will play a big factor in your page rank.
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I am planning redesign of my page (4-5 years old with pagerank 3-4). There will not be any URLs changing, meaning that the same content will stay under the same URL. But I am still bothered, because I heard that changing HTML structure on whole page can have some effect, mainly negative. But there is no way of changing design and layout of the page without changing HTML structure.
Could you please sum up all the things to take into account when redesigning website search-engine-friendly-way ?
I could go into some detail but basically check your site with this to get a detailed breakdown: http://nibbler.silktide.com/ Before and your test site (Preferably on a test domain ie. test.mywebsite.com).
Basic things not to do are: Do not use html tables for anything but displaying data in a grid, do not use semantic html where not needed this is used to highlight things as important.
Order of importance tags on a page
H1 < H2 < H3 < B
Make sure your html is valid and you have all the appropriate meta-tags in place as per the w3c standard you choose for your design.
Content is key, keyword density and page themes are what are important don't dilute a page, if you are going to add a new page.
Make sure you add a site map and submit to all search engines and have a robots.txt file pointing to your local xml sitemap.
For everything that you didn't understand that I said google the phrases in bold and you will find more detail of implementation.
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I wondered what would be the markup to achieve the following on google, somehow they recognize the menu items and show it as part of the search result but I couldn't find an easy way to do it.
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Basically, you are asking how to cause "sitelinks" to appear for your website. Unfortunately as far as SEO is concerned, there isn't any special markup you can use to make these appear. They will be shown if Google's algorithm determines it is appropriate to show them, otherwise, they won't be.
For more information, see the following help article from the Google webmaster tools:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334&topic=8523
There isn't anything special about the markup. Google needs to be able to crawl the site and be able to determine the site's structure based on how pages link to each other. In addition, you can tell Google how the site is structured by submitting a sitemap to them. This is a simple step you can do to encourage Google to build this structure in their search results. Be patient for the results to occur, however, as it can take a while.
A good site navigation tree (logical) and breadcrumbs on the internal page, may help google to check right your "menu". HTML5 too maybe a good idea to say to search engine "Hi. I'm the nav".