[SEO] What should I be reading?

Conrad11 · 18 Jun 2006 at 21:51

Hi there,

I want to learn about SEO and how to make my sites, good for all the bots to search and have the best possible chance of getting high listings, for instance on Google, the main Search engine.

I did a quick search on OCUK first and came across the following threads, which I am going to read:

SEO Optimisation Sticky
Anchor Titles - Still don't really understand what and where this is?
Spelling of Keywords
For Comedy? - Beansprout, any reason it links to disney?
Tags - Are <h1> and <h2> tags that important?

All those being good an all, I would like some more information on how to actually structure the site...TAGS...complience, meta tags?, key words?....links?

Also would like some extra SEO tips which help the site get listed higher. I have heard something about robots.txt (no idea what this is). Information on actually submitting the sites?

Does anyone have any good articles they suggest?

Thanks...

Conrad11 · 18 Jun 2006 at 22:53

iCraig said:
Content is what drives a site, make sure you fill yours to the brim with useful, well written and relevant copy.

So do you have any tips for this. Include lots of keywords, that would be typed into the search engine? Should you give images keyword names?

Conrad11 · 19 Jun 2006 at 19:43

So should I still use meta-tags or are they just not important anymore, and is it important to have a keyword rich url?

Conrad11 · 4 Jul 2006 at 18:28

It doesn't matter if I have all pages on includes via one page with a switch (PHP) right? As the php outputs HTML which is read by the spiders?

What i mean is, is it at any disadvantage, from an SEO point of view, to have something like this to display all the pages:

Code:

<?php

if(!empty($_GET['p'])){
	$page = preg_replace('/\W/si', '', $_GET['p']);
	include('./'.$p.'.php');
}else{
	include('./main.php');
}

?>

Conrad11 · 5 Jul 2006 at 00:40

Ah ok cheers.

Another question:

Do SiteMaps help with SEO at all? If so do you have an article which shows how to create a good site map and what should be included.

Does anyone know what Google SiteMaps actually does? and if it helps.