Search Engine optimization- HTML TAGS

[freewebspace]

The 3 most important HTML tags in search engine optimization are title tags, header tags, and ALT text. Let's take a closer look at each HTML tag.

Title tags
Most of the major search engines give the most relevance to keywords in the title tags within the Web page. As such, every page should have a title tag. In general, I have found that short keyword rich descriptions in title tags work best.

Good title tag:

<TITLE>Search Engine Optimization</TITLE>
Not so good title tag:

<TITLE>SEO.com - Search engine optimization tips, tricks, news, resources, tools and much more besides!</TITLE>
Header tags
Many of the major search engines place a lot of relevance on keywords in header tags (H1, H2 and H3). As such I recommend that you sprinkle keyword rich header tags on your Web pages.

Sample header tags:

<H1>Search Engine Optimization</H1>

<H2>Search Engine Positioning</H2>
ALT text
Always include ALT text to describe the contents of an image. Use keyword rich descriptions in the ALT text, as some search engines index the keywords.

You will also provide a text description to visitors with slow download connections or have their images turned off. But to ensure that the text is visible, you must set the image's width and height dimensions.

The use of ALT text also enable visually disabled visitors using screen readers, or reviewers, to interpret the image on the screen. Images can be translated, only if there is alternative text describing the image.

Also consider adding a period "." at the end of the ALT text, so that someone hearing the page can tell where one image stops and another starts.

Sample ALT text within an image tag:

<IMG SRC="s.gif" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="100" ALT="search engine optimization.">

These are the optimization tips you need in the HTML tags

Next part is link popularity

[Djetamun]

<TITLE>SEO.com - Search engine optimization tips, tricks, news, resources, tools and much more besides!</TITLE>

Actually, this is a little too long a title. It will dilute the target keyword. Not to mention that the keyword itself, SEO in this case, is waaay too generic. But I suppose this is just an example, so ... :smile2:

You will also provide a text description to visitors with slow download connections or have their images turned off. But to ensure that the text is visible, you must set the image's width and height dimensions.

The use of ALT text also enable visually disabled visitors using screen readers, or reviewers, to interpret the image on the screen. Images can be translated, only if there is alternative text describing the image.

Also consider adding a period "." at the end of the ALT text, so that someone hearing the page can tell where one image stops and another starts.

I very much like these notes. I've always been a sucker for accessibility in Web design, and these notes are perfect for accessibility :smile2:



Thank you. Waiting for the next article :smile2:

[darky]

Actually, this is a little too long a title. It will dilute the target keyword. Not to mention that the keyword itself, SEO in this case, is waaay too generic. But I suppose this is just an example, so ... :smile2:

Actaully, it would just be truncated. Your title should be as short as possible and still hold your keywords. Search engines only read up to a certain about of characters in the title. I know that google truncates it after 66 characters and Yahoo! truncates it after 120 characters.

[spandan]

Dear freewebspace,
Your article (or may I call it post) Search Engine optimization- HTML TAGS is good. But your examples aren't the latest W3C recommendations. Here's what you need to change
- convert all tags and attributes to lowercase (like <title> instead of <TITLE>)
- use CSS
- add " /" to single tags (like <img /> instead of just <img>)

[ivenms]

The title plays a major role on search engines. But the url relating to the page also makes a large contribution on search engines expecially on google search engine. The page name should related with the page title. Normally, many of the site follows techniques like denoting pages by numbers. Now many of them are changed and making their pages with keywords.

Head tags also leads on search optimisation techniques.

[Napoleon]

Hmm, I found the same article here.
When you copy and paste an article, you should credit the original poster atleast. But, if you're the one who posted it there or if they copied your article, I'll apologize to you. But, if i'm correct, you should edit the post crediting the author or I'm going to complain to the mods.
http://www.1hour-search-engine-optim...html-tags.html

[sam2698]

Always remember to name the image like searchengine1.jpg, alt = searchengine. Also head tags do a lot of help. Buttons using CSS rank better than button images that have alt tags.

[frederick.ding]

Hmm, I found the same article here.
When you copy and paste an article, you should credit the original poster atleast. But, if you're the one who posted it there or if they copied your article, I'll apologize to you. But, if i'm correct, you should edit the post crediting the author or I'm going to complain to the mods.
http://www.1hour-search-engine-optim...html-tags.html

What a cheater. And this person has been doing this for so long...

I've been here almost 1 year, and this has been persistent and consistent behaviour!

[shi_2000_21]

The title tag is important but more imporant is meta tag the Description and Keyword tags are the most important tags for search engine indexing.

You can convert your meta tag to search engine friendly. There are lots of websites which provides meta tag checker and optimizer it density any errors in it etc.

http://www.sitereportcard.com/index.php