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Ten things to consider when building a web page for SEO heaven

mattmaan — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:45:36 +0000

1. Choose the correct DOC TYPE. Pages will not validate with an incorrect DOC TYPE and your page may even cause browsers to flip out for no obvious reason.
2. Create a unique META description and title tag for each page that will reflect the real content of that page. Slow down and read the copy. Duplicate description tags may indicate to a search bot that the page may contain duplicate content.
3. Fill in the alt tag that accompanies any image. Again, validate,… the page will not validate without alt tags filled. It will also add much needed bot-readable keyword text to the raw code.
4. Give the filename for the page a unique name. Reflect the nature of the page’s content in the url.
5. More content! The more text on a page, the happier a search bot is and will spend more time there reading.
6. Avoid Flash, but if you must, keep it to a minimum and make sure it is not the most dominate part of your page. Yeah, the bots say the can read flash documents now, but there isn’t any evidence of that claim or of their accuracy if they actually do.
7. Try your best not to use tables. Seperate the design from the content as much as possible. This isn’t as important to search bots as many designers would lead you to believe, but let’s get with the times.
8. Add keywords to the keyword META tag. Just for old-time’s sake. It can’t hurt.
9. Turn off all of the CSS on the page and examine it. That is the way a search bot sees it. Does it make sense? Is it readable?
10. Finally, be relevant. Update often. Consider using WordPress. The era of instant search is coming,… or maybe it’s already here.

ecommerce doesn’t get much easier than this

mattmaan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:57:55 +0000

Just found this terrific video for anyone out there into WordPress and wanting an online ecommerce solution.

http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/08/create-an-ecommerce-website-with-wordpress-in-under-5-minutes/

Enjoy!

Basecamp by 37Signals.com makes project management easier

mattmaan — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:11:26 +0000

Basecamp by 37Signals.com makes project management easier.

WordPress.tv launches!

mattmaan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:39:54 +0000

This looks pretty cool. A virtual class room for mastering the art of self-publishing. Click on the picture for more. Enjoy!

WordPress Video Tutorials for the Novice and the Pro

mattmaan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:06:53 +0000

Here’s a nice collection of video tutorials for all of you bloggers and web designers out there. Thanks Speckyboy.

Testing the Insights Plugin for WordPress

mattmaan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:06:41 +0000

Vladimir Prelovac has written an interesting WP plugin called “Insights” which can be downloaded from his website here. Currently with Insights you can instantly search:

Your Blog

(creates a hyperlink)

Flickr

Returns about 30 Flickr images to choose from.

Youtube

This didn’t work so well. I still had to grab the code from Youtube myself. My search didn’t return any hits for The Soulbenders. (Infamous 60′s garage band from Grand Rapids, MI and a dear friend. Good job on the video Aris!)

Wikipedia

(creates a hyperlink)

and Google

First take: I think this is pretty cool. I think I’ll keep it Vladimir, Thanks!