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10 Ways To Extend The Reach Of Your Site
10 Ways To Extend The Reach Of Your Site by Titus Hoskins Successful websites extend their reach far and wide! They build links, connections, partnerships, or use whatever means they can to extend the reach of their sites. By extending their...
3 High-Impact Article Promotion Techniques
Well-written, tightly-focused articles are in high demand by thousands of online publishers. Why? Because publishers view good content as a value-added asset, enhancing their own brand awareness and deepening relationships with clients and...
Beat rising click fraud with articles
Recently there was an interesting article in Newsweek magazine about click fraud. It seems that what has been the most effective way of advertising online, by far, is now under serious threat. The Newsweek article tells the story of a European...
Building Your Own Authority Website
Lately, a lot of articles talk about achieving better search engine ranking by building an authority website. So what is an authority website and how do you go about building one? In general, authority website is a large website full of resources...
How I Increased my site traffic by 75% in 30 days
1. Page Title – Google likes a good page name. If you look at the top ten listing for any search term you will see that the name of the page is often more important than the domain name. The page name is the unique factor that will prompt web...
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SEO - keywords - meta tags
We have dealt with the categories of visible and sometimes visible text. That only leaves text that is not visible to the user. The two categories of entries here are meta tags and html comments.
Meta tags are largely historical in context. They have been so overdone by people practicing SEO on sites, that they are not given that heavy an emphasis by search engines. That being said, they still have a purpose and can add value. IF they support the visible and sometimes visible text, then there is every reason to believe that they add value. However, if there are keywords or description that don't support your visible or semi visible text, then there is every reason to believe they are ignored at best, or used to penalize
your ranking at worst.
Html comments are a bit of an unknown. I have no positive evidence that they affect ranking one way or another. To that end - play it safe and add some that contain your search keywords but don't go overboard. If they are supported by visible or sometimes visible text, I don't see that it will do any harm. If anyone knows anything to the contrary - I would really like to hear from them.....
About the Author
Lee is one of the principals at Spinnaker Systems which provides Web related services to the small business owner. Lee can be contacted at lee@spinnakersystems.com and is a regular contributor to the Spinnaker Blog
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