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Search Engine Marketing: Checklist 

Elements needed to build the perfect page

When a Search Engine spiders a webpage there are elements they look for that help the Search Engine to determine the relevancy of each page. In fact this is the basis of the algorithm equation you hear about. 

Checklist:

  • Document Title: The text within the <title>...</title> tags in the HTML code of your web page.

  • Meta Keywords: Allows you to define which search terms are important to your web page according to your opinion. It should be placed between the <head>...</head> tags in the HTML code of your web page.

  • Meta Description: Allows you to describe your web page.

  • Body Text: The text on your web page that can be seen by people in their web browsers. It does not include HTML commands, comments, etc. The more visible text there is on a web page, the more a search engine can index. The statistics include spaces and punctuation marks.

  • First Sentence of the Body Text: The sentence after the <body> tag in the HTML code of your web page. Some search engines give more relevance to search terms when they appear in the first sentence. Some will use your first sentence as the description of your page on the search result page.

  • Link Popularity: The total number of web pages that link to your site. However, the "popularity" is only part of the link analysis. All major search engines also take the quality and the context of the links into account. The idea behind evaluating the link popularity is that your web page must offer good content when many quality sites link to it.

  • URL: The URL is the address of a web page, for example "www.domain.com/pagename.htm".

  • H1 Headline Texts:H1 headline texts are the texts that are written between the <h1>...</h1> tags in the HTML code of a web page.

  • H2 Headline Texts: H2 headline texts are the texts that are written between the <h2>...</h2> tags in the HTML code of a web page.

  • Same Site Link Texts: Words and sentences that are used as links. Same site link texts are the link texts of the links that point to a web page on the same domain.

  • Outbound Link Texts: Words and sentences that are used as links. Outbound link texts are the texts within the <a>...</a> tags when the <a> tag links to a web page on a different domain.

  • Inbound Links: links on other web pages that point to your web page.

  • Same Site Link URLs: Links connect one web page to another. Same site links are the links in <a href> attributes that point to other pages on the same domain.

  • Outbound Link URLs: links on a web page that point to web pages on other web sites, i.e. links to other domains.

  • IMG ALT Attributes: The <img alt> attribute defines an alternative text for an image when the user uses a text browser or when the user has turned off the display of images in the web browser application. Microsoft's Internet Explorer displays the alternative text if the user puts the cursor over the graphic.

  • HTML Comment Tags: HTML comment tags are "hidden comments" in the HTML code of your web page. They are not visible to the user.

Summery:

  1. HTML page Title:
    1. 6-8 words long
    2. Content based on the subject of the page text
    3. Main key phrases at the start & company name at the end
    4. Same title to be used in the top of the body text (located either above or below menu) using H1 font
  2. Header JavaScript- if possible:
    1. Remove by replacing the functionality with non-JavaScript application, or
    2. Source it out- thus shortened to a single line
  3. HTML page Description:
    1. Shorten to 3-4 sentences
    2. Use same content from the body text – best if written containing key phrases.  
    3. Such text should be at the top of the page – using H2 font
  4. HTML page Keyword tag:
    1. 6-10 key phrases long
    2. Phrases used in Page Title & description
  5. Add the following in the Header:
    1. <meta name="revisit-after" content="30 days">
    2. <meta name="robots" content="index,all,follow">
    3. <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW">
  6. Add HTML Comment Tags- containing key phrases
  7. Body Text:
    1. 500-700 words
    2. Hyperlink key-phrases to internal pages
  1. Image:
    1. If possible re-naming using key-phrases (hyphenated)
    2. Need Alt tags (containing key phrases)
    3. Hyperlink to internal pages
  2. Menu
    1. If possible make straight HTML links vs. JavaScript, or
    1.  Add HTML menu on the bottom
  1. Site Map
    1. Home page must have an HTML link to this page
    2. List Page Titles – hyperlinked back to each page

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