There are certain elements of code that sould always be included when building your websites and blogs that will help the search engines love you and give you more limelight in the SERP's.
Step 1. Important HTML SEO Tags
Titel Tag:
<head><title>Keyword title here</title></head>
Header Tags (H1,H2,H3,H4)
<h1> Most Important Header Tag</h1>
<h2> Second Important Header Tag</h2>
<h3> Third Important Header Tag</h3>
<h4> Forth Important Header Tag</h4>
Step 2. Blod / Strong
<blod>Keyword</bold>
<strong>Keyword</strong>
Image
<img src="image.jpg" alt="Keyword" title="Keyword" />
Hyperlinks (Followed):
<a href="http://www.example.com/index.html" title="Keyword"> Keyword anchor text</a>
Hyperlinks (Not Followed):
<a href="http://www.example.com/index.html" title="Keyword" rel="nofollow"> Keyword anchor text</a>
Step 3. Basics...
That shows basic HTML that the search engine look for to determine what your site is about and what keyword it relates to.
They are all important and should be used on each page of your site if possible. The below shows recommended title tag syntex:
Keyword <category | website Title
Step 4. Search Engine Indexing Limits
It is always a very good idea to add your keywords to the page title, but do not overdo it by keyword stuffing as the title should not be more than 70 characters in length.
Page File Size:
No more than 150 Kelobytes(before images, attachment and CSS etc).
Number of Links:
No more than 100 unique links per page.
Title Tag:
No more than 70 characters in length.
Meta Description:
No more than 150 characters in length.
URL Depth:
No more than 4 for example -
Bad example- http://www.example.com/category/places/items/india/index.html
Good example
http://www.example.com/category/index.html
* The number of parameters in a url should be no more than two.
Step 5. Sitemap Syntax:
Like This......
<?xml version="1.0" encoding='UTF-8'?>
<urlset xmlns='http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9'>
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
<lastmod> 1987--05-25</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
The location of your xml sitemap should be set to a default location where the search engines will automatically look for it. These are as follow:
http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml.gz
http://www.example.com/sitemap.gz
If you are unsure about creating your own xml sitemap you can find out more and make your own for free at - http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Step 6: Don't Forget
Robots Syntax.
User-Agent:*
Disallow:/privatefolder/
Disallow:/privatefile.html/
User-Agent:Googlebot/2.1
Disallow:/nogoogle.html
Sitemap:http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
Robots meta tag:
<meta name="ROBOTNAME" contant="ARGUMENTS" />
Step 1. Important HTML SEO Tags
Titel Tag:
<head><title>Keyword title here</title></head>
Header Tags (H1,H2,H3,H4)
<h1> Most Important Header Tag</h1>
<h2> Second Important Header Tag</h2>
<h3> Third Important Header Tag</h3>
<h4> Forth Important Header Tag</h4>
Step 2. Blod / Strong
<blod>Keyword</bold>
<strong>Keyword</strong>
Image
<img src="image.jpg" alt="Keyword" title="Keyword" />
Hyperlinks (Followed):
<a href="http://www.example.com/index.html" title="Keyword"> Keyword anchor text</a>
Hyperlinks (Not Followed):
<a href="http://www.example.com/index.html" title="Keyword" rel="nofollow"> Keyword anchor text</a>
Step 3. Basics...
That shows basic HTML that the search engine look for to determine what your site is about and what keyword it relates to.
They are all important and should be used on each page of your site if possible. The below shows recommended title tag syntex:
Keyword <category | website Title
Step 4. Search Engine Indexing Limits
It is always a very good idea to add your keywords to the page title, but do not overdo it by keyword stuffing as the title should not be more than 70 characters in length.
Page File Size:
No more than 150 Kelobytes(before images, attachment and CSS etc).
Number of Links:
No more than 100 unique links per page.
Title Tag:
No more than 70 characters in length.
Meta Description:
No more than 150 characters in length.
URL Depth:
No more than 4 for example -
Bad example- http://www.example.com/category/places/items/india/index.html
Good example
http://www.example.com/category/index.html
* The number of parameters in a url should be no more than two.
Step 5. Sitemap Syntax:
Like This......
<?xml version="1.0" encoding='UTF-8'?>
<urlset xmlns='http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9'>
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
<lastmod> 1987--05-25</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
The location of your xml sitemap should be set to a default location where the search engines will automatically look for it. These are as follow:
http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml.gz
http://www.example.com/sitemap.gz
If you are unsure about creating your own xml sitemap you can find out more and make your own for free at - http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Step 6: Don't Forget
Robots Syntax.
User-Agent:*
Disallow:/privatefolder/
Disallow:/privatefile.html/
User-Agent:Googlebot/2.1
Disallow:/nogoogle.html
Sitemap:http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
Robots meta tag:
<meta name="ROBOTNAME" contant="ARGUMENTS" />