Category SEO Web Design

Proper use of different-language translations

How do you take advantage of different-language translations of your web pages from search engine optimization point of view?

Should blog links from e-commerce site be nofollowed?

You are running a blog that helps to build your brand awareness and drive traffic to your e-commerce site. Should you use rel=”nofollow” on links going from the e-commerce site to the blog?

Site maps for large dynamic sites

You’ve got a huge database-driven site with new pages added every day. How should you approach the sitemap issue?

Sitemap outranks money page

Your site map ranks higher for a particular keyword than your money page that you spent hours optimizing. Why? And, what to do about it?

Site structure and PR-push strategy

How shold you design your site’s internal linking structure so that maximum PageRank is pushed to your product pages?

www and non-www, duplicate content?

Your site can be accessed via both: www.site.com and site.com. Is this a problem? Can it be considered a duplicate content? How do you fix it?

Can 301 redirect harm your site?

You were told to execute a 301 Redirect. Can something like that hurt your site in the search engines?

Is it safe to “nofollow” internal pages?

Using rel=”nofollow” is a great way to manipulate the flow of PageRank—on your site, or outside of it. When used internally, it can help channel more PageRank to pages that need it and turn it off—partially or completely—for those that don’t need it.

Resources section, good or bad?

You are considering to add a resources section to your site that would be truly useful for your visitors. It will include an alphabetical listing of your recommended resources and will likely end up containing hundreds if not thousands useful links. But, you are concerned that this might be viewed by the search engines as […]

What screen resolution to design for?

Which screen resolution should you be designing your web site for?
At the time of this writing, it’s 1024×768 while ensuring the site looks good also at 800×600.
However, your specific (or ideal) target audience might be completely off compared to the average internet user. If so, you need to take that into account.
Finally, […]

Build one large or multiple small sites?

Is it better to build one large web site or several small ones?
From an SEO point of view, one large site is better than several small ones. From maintenance point of view, there are both pros and cons. One large site is easier to maintain, but if your site has problems, it […]

Translations unique or duplicate?

Is having the same content available in several different languages regarded as unique or duplicate?
Unique. Google can’t tell that it’s looking at two different-language versions of the same article. In other words, it reads each version as different and unique content.
That means, you should be able to organize your multi-language content any way you want […]

Meta keywords, description tags

The META keywords and META description tags used to be the holy grail of search engine optimization. All you had to do was to put a ton of keywords in them and you magically skyrocketed to the top of the SERPs.
Well, those times are long gone. Today, none of the tags have any measurable SEO […]

Keyword-stuffing footer links

Stuff your keywords into footer links and take advantage of additional PageRank and link reputation being pushed to those pages. Right?
Well yes, but less and less so. While footer links do pass PageRank and link reputation, Google (in particular) understands a web page’s structure and, quite logically, places different value on links from your main content area […]

Nofollow pages based on competition?

Ok, so you learned about PR-push strategies to channel PageRank only to pages that you want to compete in the SERPs.
But now you are facing a dilemma. Some keywords are so competitive that there is practically no chance of you being able to rank anywhere for a long, long time. Should you nofollow links to those […]