Torben Heikel Vinther's List: SEO

• • Make the URLs clean
   
  • Make them simple
   
  • Make a URL human and machine readable
   
  • Use one URL per page
   
  • No special characters besides a minus/hyphen “-” ideally
   
  • Use slashes like real directories
   
  • Enhance URLs with numbers but don’t rely on them
   
  • Skip the date, it’s not the most important info
   
  • Do not ever change URLs once set
   
  • If you have to change URLs move them with a “301 permanently moved” redirect

• Dynamic title that your audience loves are eye-catching title that you use for your post.

   

  Dynamic title for search engines are new generated <title> tag for each page on your website.

• You don’t want the default wordpress title: Blog Title » Post Title

   

  What you need is dynamic titles meaning unique titles for each post/page that use good keywords which will help you rank high in search engines.
• Add a custom description, title, and keywords for that page. This is ESSENTIAL. You must do this if you want good results.

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• There was too much clutter in my header, so it took google bot a while to get to my content, therefore it couldn’t index everything like it was suppose to. So I cleared up the clutter in my header still a lot going on there right now, but there was a lot more before. Next thing I did was refined the use of my heading tags (<h2><h3>) through out the post titles, and inside the posts as well.
• I organized the content through out the site well. I also made image implementation in the content better than before.
• Next thing that I did was I improved the navigation through out the site highlighting the important categories by putting them in the home page content area, where as others stayed in the sidebar.
• Bread Crumbs
• I also added rel tags through out the site.
• No image size is not the only thing guys. I added alt tags through out the site.
• Before it was names generated from Photoshop such as index_01 and so on. This time, I decided to change those to appropriate names such as logo, and each. Having a keyword name in the images, helped the ranking.
• By having more images, I increased my chances of getting indexed more.

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• “In Search of the Holy Grail,” by Matthew Levine. Three-column fluid layouts within a standards-based design are among the most difficult to achieve. As a result, they have been dubbed the Holy Grail of web design. Numerous methods have been developed to address this design problem, but sacrifices are common in employing it. Matthew Levine produced perhaps the most compact, unobtrusive version of this process to date.