SEO http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/ www.smartdecat.co.uk The abstract tag is similar to the keyword tag. It is mainly used to increase keyword density. Don't overuse the abstract tag! We recommend you use it as a one line sentence that gives an overview of the web page. http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 2009-03-06 These are very similar to normal links as above but rather than click here being the link descriptive links would be more like click here to learn more about our web design services with every word being the link. http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 2009-03-06 For people viewing your site and for search engines it is very important not to have the font colour the same or close to the same colour as the background of your page. Doing this would not only make it hard for people to read but search engines class this as a spam attempt and may even remove your site from their listings. http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 2009-03-06 To get your site listed on Google you have to submit your url; ie:- http://www.mydomianname.com ; to the search engine so it can index your website. To submit your website to Google Click here Google can take up to six weeks to index your site there are ways of getting listed quicker. Get a link from a site already listed with Google Create a blog - Google likes blogs and many blogs are indexed very ... http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 2009-03-06 Images go a long way to make your site more attractive and allow clients to see what a product looks like but these can also be used as a good SEO tool by adding ALT tags. When adding an ALT tag try to keep it short and if practical add a keyword to it, avoid having all your images on the same page using the same ALT tag as this will degrade their worth. An additional benefit of ALT tags is it allows ... http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 2009-03-06 Links not only allow users to browser your site but these can also be used to aid your ranking in search engines by adding title tags. Title tags show when a user leaves their mouse over a link and the information should contain a good description of what the link is about and contain keywords. again do not over do it and leave the title tag to around 4- 8 words. http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 2009-03-06 This is a hidden bit of text which is used mainly by search engines, this should be no more than 200 characters in length and again include keywords. Further improvements would be to have the description as the opening paragraph of the page. http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 2009-03-06 Again used by search engines and clients searching for your site. Try to avoid adding hundreds of keywords as this is not liked by search engines, we would recommend no more than 500 characters in length and these keywords ideally need to be found in the page content. A keyword such as website will work better than websites. http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 2009-03-06 It goes without saying you need content here as this will be used to help sell or advertise your products and services. Search engines love words and so do humans although it is just as important not to over do things, while search engines will be happy for you page to contain thousands of words the average human will not be so grateful particularly on an ecommerce site. The page should be at least ... http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 2009-03-06 While all major search engines are happy to list dynamic page names such as products.asp?id=123 again this means little to nothing to search engines and humans so a better approach would be to use a more meaningful name such as Webdesign.asp. Further enhancements can be achieved if the page name also contains keywords of the product better still if the page name has keywords which are also found in ... http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 2009-03-06 Your page title should contain keywords and again be meaningful to humans but try to keep it to no more than 80 characters in length. When possible and practical this should also be found in the main body text of the page. Welcome to smartdecat this would be considered to be a poor title for search engine placement Welcome to smartdecat web site development and scripting this would be far better as ... http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 2009-03-06 Using keyword analysis, good coding practices, well-written copy, link popularity analysis and careful site organization to move a web page as close to the number one search results position as possible for a given key phrase, in both search engines and directories. http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 2009-03-06 The domain name really needs to have at least one of your important keywords within it and the age of the domain can sometimes help, the older the better. Example; smartdecat.co.uk means very little to humans or search engines and contains no keywords so obtaining additional domains such as smartcmswebsites.co.uk which contains 3 keywords not only aid humans in readying what the site is about but ... http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 http://www.smartdecat.co.uk/faq.asp?iscat=3 2009-03-06