Hot answers tagged tags
8
This is the doctype for HTML 5.
You are safe to use this Doctype as it won't break older browsers and modern browsers will understand it.
This is a valid tag for HTML 5. If you really want custom tags, you'd need to create a custom doctype for your document to reference, but that's discouraged.
5
I definitely recommend using the rel="tag" microformat attribute.
http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag
I have mixed feelings about microformats in general but this one is quite easy and simple, and has no downside.
You can see how we do it in our engine right here, for this very question, tagged [seo] and [tags]
<a href="/questions/tagged/seo" ...
4
No. Read this(all of it; there's a lot of useful stuff), though of particular relevance here:
Google no longer recommends blocking
crawler access to duplicate content on
your website, whether with a
robots.txt file or other methods.
[...]
Duplicate content on a site is not
grounds for action on that site unless
it appears that the intent ...
3
Under your site's Tools > Import menu there is a plugin you can install called Categories and Tags Converter, which once installed will give you control over how to handle categories you might want to convert.
This is a relatively painless process in the 3 times I've used it, but I never concerned myself with migrating older urls. If that's a concern, ...
3
robots.txt is the way to go, but it can take up to several weeks until reindexing.
You may be able to speed up the process - at least as far as Google is concerned - by signing up the site in question with Google Webmaster Tools.
3
Should? No.
Why would you nofollow your own links to your own site?
If you don't want the tag pages indexed(different thing), that's your own choice and you can add the directive as a meta tag on the relevant page template, or you can just do it via robots.txt.
Do you have:
a tag cloud somewhere on your site, like a page dedicated to it, or
a giant ...
2
The tags won't affect the pages directly by being on that page (although I am sure someone will say having the tag will increase your keyword density but I wouldn't even give too much thought to that). So adding tags in the hopes that they are directly a ranking factor would not be a good use of time.
How it can help SEO is when you have a dedicated page(s) ...
2
From an SEO perspective, it doesn't matter too much. There's some speculation that, in general, a high content-to-markup ratio is better for SEO. But I've seen no real evidence for this. This often repeated statement is probably generalized from the fact that high quality pages generally have lots of content, and pages with lots of content will have a high ...
2
Using meta tags to block access to your site:
To entirely prevent a page's contents from being listed in the Google web index even if other sites link to it, use a noindex meta tag. As long as Googlebot fetches the page, it will see the noindex meta tag and prevent that page from showing up in the web index.
2
You might find these two Matt Cutts videos interesting:
Do tag clouds help or hinder SEO?
Is it worth spending time on creating tags and categories
As long as it is useful for your users it should not become a problem. (If it would you can always set up NOINDEX,FOLLOW META tags to indicate that you don't want the pages indexed).
What can become a ...
2
This is a job for rel="canonical" and not noindex. You want Google to discover the content any way it can but avoid the duplicate content penalty. Adding the <link rel="canonical" href="http://yoursite.com/orginal-post-permalink"/> to your author and tag archives accomplishes that.
I don't use All-in-One SEO for WordPress but I do use Yoast's SEO ...
1
2009 - Google, Bing, and Yahoo announce Support for Canonical Links
There is no need to use robots.txt to tackle the duplicate content problem, in February 2009, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft (for their Bing search engine) announced support for the canonical link element which aims to tackle the problem of duplicate content.
Rel="canonical" To The Rescue
So ...
1
Google may change the title of your page in their search results (since 2012-01):
We use many signals to decide which title to show to users, primarily the <title> tag if the webmaster specified one. But for some pages, a single title might not be the best one to show for all queries, and so we have algorithms that generate alternative titles to ...
1
I don't think your find a 100% answer on this question and much speculation but I believe if your pages are THIN with block quote then your most likely be hit by Google panda for duplicate content however if your writing good content which is unqine around the block quote element then I believe its a positive.
Many Top Sites use Snippets and Cite Source
I ...
1
There really aren't any better ways... 1 h1 tag/page that's all you need to keep in mind. Also maintaining a structure/page would be good
<h1> - main title
<h2> - section
<p> - some intro text
<h3> - section chapter
<p> - chapter contents
<h2> - section
<h3> - chapter
<p> - chapter ...
1
...the title of the post is "make big money". In the tag area I'm adding make big money, or tools to make big money, or how does blogging make big money.
When you ask "...OK to use with all the Google updates?", presumably you are asking whether these would be perceived as spam?
I don't think it is necessarily the subject matter that is a problem ...
1
SEO will not be affected due to the use of tag clouds.
But as the different tags go to the same post then it is case of duplicate content and that will affect the SEO.
To overcome the duplicate content issue you have to make the tags "noindex" from robots.txt or use the All In one SEO Plugin and mark the tags and categories as noindex from the plugin ...
1
By all means you could use a hierarchical URL approach for tags. The key is to keep it structured. As a for instance, I would use the following approach given your scenarios:
/tags/products/color/brown
/tags/products/price/under-100
/tags/products/status/refurbished
Assuming all products are properly tagged in a database, it then becomes a rather ...
1
I think a simple database setup with three tables in your favourite script would suffice. For example, for my website, I use an article table (your file locations), a tag table, and a table to link them. You only need to make a back-end script to connect everything, and a front-end search engine. Depending on your needs you can start out real simple.
1
My first answer is: why would you want less exposure on Google?
Surely people will still get to the article, even if they have to go via the listing page. And that is a good thing.
Maybe rather than stopping Google from indexing certain pages, why not do some work on the articles to get them higher. Look at the text on the pages as well as the keywords, ...
1
Follow some references (yeah, it is a extensive material to read):
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/11-typography-on-the-web/
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/type.html
http://www.noupe.com/fonts/how-to-use-typography-effectively-in-web-design.html
http://webstyleguide.com/wsg3/8-typography/5-typographic-emphasis.html
...
1
Keep in mind that the robots.txt controls crawling, not indexing (docs). It's possible that a URL is indexed even if it has never been crawled before. In general, that doesn't matter -- it's not like the URL is going to show up in search results if the rest of your site is indexed normally. If you do want to be certain that these URLs do not show up in ...
1
I would recommend using a product already geared towards document management instead of customizing something.
Among open-source products, I recommend Alfresco (http://www.alfresco.com/products/dm/).
If the information is extensive and a matter of legal issues you might want to check out the ECM-market.
1
There's not a standard way to do this, but here are some options:
A <meta> keywords tag:
<meta name="keywords" content="tag1, tag2, tag3" />
Link each tag to a master page, each of these has a list of like-tagged posts:
<a href="http://blog.example.com/archive/tag/tag1">tag1</a>
<a ...
1
I've found that strategic use of nofollow links helps here. For instance, tags at the bottom of the post should not be followed, but the link to the page that shows all posts in that tag should be. Then create a 'tags' page that leads to those pages. Additionally, use nofollow links in your tag cloud, should you have one.
What you need to be careful of is ...
Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible
