Rhemaranch Blog

November 7th, 2007

Important components in SEO

Before building a website its important to plan your SEO.
I will list few important components that will improve your position on search engines.
MetaTags
This is one of most important component to most search enignes.
description: this tag is used to give a description of the site.
keywords: list of keywords, separate either by commas.

MetaTags located in the heading of the page <HEAD>….</HEAD>.

Example:
<HEAD>
<meta name=”description” content=”Your desc goes here.”>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”keyword1, keyword2, keyword3, keyword4″>
</HEAD>

Title Tag
This element defines the title of the document, its very important to use a good
title and your can add few keywords in your title - its can help.
The title tag will appear in search engines as your document title.

Title Tag located in the heading of the page <HEAD>….</HEAD>.

Example:
<HEAD>
<title>My website - all about xxx, xxx, xxx</title>
<meta name=”description” content=”Your desc goes here.”>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”keyword1, keyword2, keyword3, keyword4″>
</HEAD>

How your website will look in search engines:

My website - all about xxx, xxx, xxx (Title Tag)
Your desc goes here. (Description Meta Tag)

<H1> to <H6> tags
The <h1> to <h6> tags define headers. <h1> defines the largest header. <h6> defines the smallest header.
Search engines see the text between this tag as more important.

Headers tags located in the body of the page <BODY>….</BODY>.

Example:
<BODY>
<H1>Your website name</H1>
<H2>Your slogan</H2>
<H3>Category name</H3>
</BODY>

URL
The URL is very important SEO component.
Domain with keyword will get ranked higher.
Example:
http://www.name.com.

The inner pages are important too, keywords in your pages name will help your too.
Example:
http://www.name-seo-web-directory.co…directory.html
http://www.name-seo-web-directory.co…directory.html

If your are useing dynamic pages like PHP you can use Mod_ReWrite,
more info your can find on apache web site

Robots.txt
This file must be accessible via HTTP on the local URL “/robots.txt”.
The following example “/robots.txt” file specifies that no robots should visit /tmp and /admin.html
# robots.txt for http://www.name-seo-web-directory.com/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /admin.html
ALT tag
This tag shows search engines the images description and the text will appares when the image
file is not shown

Example
<img src=”/images/enter.jpg” alt=”Enter to name seo web directory” />