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imsleepy;119098Hi,

I am by no means an expert at SEO, but I pride myself in getting sites I build on the first page in a search. What you wrote above explains one reason that I might be having success at this. I know that keywords and phrases are important. When I write content for a page, I try to make sure it includes keywords and phrases that I think might be used in a search.

For awhile, I was seeing a lot of “invisible” text, nothing but a jumble of keywords and phrases, on pages which was supposedly a way to get the search engines to find you, but I never tried that. It creates a blank space at the bottom of the page because the text is the same color as the background, but supposedly it works. I have also heard the search engines now ignore it, but how would the search engine know what it is?

What is your opinion of this practice?

Don’t do it! You will be punshed by google. Some websites did that back in the 90’s but Google caught on and now it’s a no no.

It’s easy for a spider to tell if you are spamming keywords that way. They can just compair the page background color to the text color.

If you want to add keywords to a page use a tags colud. It’s not considered spam and it helps with your SEO.

If you are intent on adding invisible keywords you can always add 1px by 1px clear gifs all over the page and add your keywords to the alt atribute. Somehow I think Google will probably catch on to that one as well so I don’t recommend it.

Your practice of making your content relevant and keyword rich is the best way to go though.

If you want to add more relevance to a keyword, link it. Spiders love keyword links. So instead of Click Here, make your link USS Arizona Roster. Viola instant spider bait and your ranking will go up too.:cool:

Oh, almost forgot…

Make sure the meta keywords match the content keywords. Spiders consider matching tags more relevant.

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#297064

Use h1 tags for titles…
and so on.

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#297065

Thanks for the tips! I have a lot of those Click Here links and will be changing those to key words too. I am fairly sure I used the same meta content and keywords on every page… there’s a lot of pages and I got lazy. I don’t do that on client sites though so they should be fine, but will update any Click Here links on their pages as well. What a great tip!!!! Thanks!!!

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#297066

<em>@instantinlaw 119128 wrote:</em><blockquote>Use h1 tags for titles…
and so on.</blockquote>

Does that make a difference? I didn’t think it did… Uh oh, that is a lot of updating if it does.

One other question. I take care with the alt tags on my photos… very descriptive… but I recently discovered the title and id tags for images and for links. (Yeah… 12 years and I have tons to learn). What are the title and id tags used for other than image maps etc. Are these something I should start using as well?

I didn’t like the title tag I put on some links to try it out because the little box pops out like the images, that’s fine, can add a description to the link, but in a long line of links, it’s really annoying. Unless it has a specific SEO purpose, I don’t want to use the title tags on links.

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On http://www.google.ie…

No1 for commercial sinks
No1 for medical sinks
No1 for sluice sinks
No6 for wash hand basins
No1 for stainless steel canopies
No8 for stainless steel tables

My problem is we only sell in Ireland. But I get enquiries from all over the world especially the US. Is there any way, WITHOUT hurting my SEO, to tell people from outside the Irish IP range that we only sell within Ireland?

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imsleepy, don’t use title tags in links,

also, make sure you follow the H1,H2,H3 etc Hierarchy on your pages, they are looking for the same setup you would use in a properly formated word doc outline. You can also use you css to restyle your H tags so you don’t have huge letters on your page.

here’s another tip;
when doing your alt image tags, firefox does not use the alt images tag, it ignores it, you need to use a title tag on your images, just for FF. so when doing those images tags use both, alt description and title.

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#297200

scotty;119168On http://www.google.ie…

No1 for commercial sinks
No1 for medical sinks
No1 for sluice sinks
No6 for wash hand basins
No1 for stainless steel canopies
No8 for stainless steel tables

My problem is we only sell in Ireland. But I get enquiries from all over the world especially the US. Is there any way, WITHOUT hurting my SEO, to tell people from outside the Irish IP range that we only sell within Ireland?

What are you nuts scotty?
With search engine results like those, I’d find a distrubuter and start selling world wide 😉
Super generic keywords!:cool:

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#297201

mj1256;119175imsleepy, don’t use title tags in links,

also, make sure you follow the H1,H2,H3 etc Hierarchy on your pages, they are looking for the same setup you would use in a properly formated word doc outline. You can also use you css to restyle your H tags so you don’t have huge letters on your page.[/quote]
Sorry about that imsleepy, thats what I meant.:eek:

instantinlaw wrote:

here’s another tip;
when doing your alt image tags, firefox does not use the alt images tag, it ignores it, you need to use a title tag on your images, just for FF. so when doing those images tags use both, alt description and title.

Didn’t know that one. Thanks! 🙂

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imsleepy;119131I didn’t like the title tag I put on some links to try it out because the little box pops out like the images, that’s fine, can add a description to the link, but in a long line of links, it’s really annoying. Unless it has a specific SEO purpose, I don’t want to use the title tags on links.

Opinion is mixed on this one, but most people lean towards it not hurting your seo. It’s used to describe what the link links to and is helpful for usability. Personally I don’t use it, but it won’t hurt you to use it.

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