dicko_md Posted July 7, 2009 Posted July 7, 2009 Hi My website is pretty much finished and ready to be launched to the public at the end of the week. Ive done quite a bit of marketing handing out leaflefts/business cards and adverts in local media and posters. Ive read about doing a free press release (has anyone done one of these and had any success from it ?). I want to add the Header Tags to improve my position on the search engines like you would with a normal website but I have seen quite a few Header Tags contributions and addons. Whats the best Header Tag addon or contribution to go with for best results ? Is there anything else I need to do to improve my position on the search engines? What pages need to be Header Tagged as I presume most will not need doing? Thanks in advance Dicko
multimixer Posted July 7, 2009 Posted July 7, 2009 Whats the best Header Tag addon or contribution to go with for best results ? I'm usining Header Tags SEO and I'm very satisfied What pages need to be Header Tagged as I presume most will not need doing? I think everything that you want people to get in search results Is there anything else I need to do to improve my position on the search engines? If you find the secret out, please post it here :) Till then I would read a little something like google's suggestions My community profile | Template system for osCommerce - New: Responsive | Feedback channel
lindsayanng Posted July 7, 2009 Posted July 7, 2009 there is a LOT LOT LOT more to do than just headers and keywords. As a matter of fact, most people believe that search engines hardly use keywords as the main source of rank anymore.. There is a LOAD that goes into optmizing a website for search engines. I COULD rewrite it, but I will give you a few points and link you to the rest of the article.. BACK LINKS - every time another website links to yours, its like a vote in favor of your site. The higher up the linking page is on google, the more value that vote has. (see article on how to get backlinks the RIGHT way) - carefull, there are people who promise you 10,000 backlinks in a week, these are the spammers we see on the forums and blogs INNER WEBSITE LINKS - I have read that the main navigation, header content, and footer content are looked at as the most important content. They assume that you will have keywords there. So create descriptive links and add some links to your footer ALT TAGS - use descriptive alt tags on all images to describe what the picture is about heres a link to the more descriptive article on SEO Web Design For Idiots SEO for OScommerce A great place for newbies to start Road Map to oscommerce File Structure DO NOT PM ME FOR HELP. My time is valuable, unless i ask you to PM me, please dont. You will get better help if you post publicly. I am not as good at this as you think anyways! HOWEVER, you can visit my blog (go to my profile to see it) and post a question there, i will find time to get back and answer you Proud Memeber of the CODE BREAKERS CLUB!!
lindsayanng Posted July 7, 2009 Posted July 7, 2009 oh yea.. and add a sitemap.. google sitemap is a good one, and then sign up for google's webmasters tools and submit your sitemap A great place for newbies to start Road Map to oscommerce File Structure DO NOT PM ME FOR HELP. My time is valuable, unless i ask you to PM me, please dont. You will get better help if you post publicly. I am not as good at this as you think anyways! HOWEVER, you can visit my blog (go to my profile to see it) and post a question there, i will find time to get back and answer you Proud Memeber of the CODE BREAKERS CLUB!!
bobsi18 Posted July 18, 2009 Posted July 18, 2009 ALT TAGS - use descriptive alt tags on all images to describe what the picture is about Just wondering how important/why this is important for seo? I often forget to add ALT tags when adding images, is this hurting my seo?
nibbles Posted July 18, 2009 Posted July 18, 2009 Just wondering how important/why this is important for seo? I often forget to add ALT tags when adding images, is this hurting my seo? YES! Search engines don't just read the meta data in your code, but they also read and compare the content to the tags (to ensure relevance) and the same goes for image names and ALT tag descriptions. They say a picture tells a thousand words? But this isn't so for the search engine bots that can't see them, they have to rely on the filenames and ALT descriptions. Same goes for your page filenames - the more descriptive they are, the more likely the bot is to assign relevance to the content within. Imagine a customer searching for a simple term like "reception furniture" - you may have such a category on your site with a fantastic pictures of "reception_chair.jpg", and "reception_table.jpg" etc. but if your ALT tags indicates "Blue reception chair - part of our RECEPTION FURNITURE range" then your search result will become more relevant. Look at it as an opportunity to stuff even more kewords into your site.
Guest Posted July 29, 2009 Posted July 29, 2009 Can anyone suggest a good way to add tags on OSC? I know how to do it in Dreamweaver, but am not sure how to go about it in OSC.
Jack_mcs Posted July 29, 2009 Posted July 29, 2009 You need to install one of the meta tags contributions. There are quite a few, as mentioned here. I recommend Header Tags SEO though. Jack Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons
Guest Posted July 29, 2009 Posted July 29, 2009 You need to install one of the meta tags contributions. There are quite a few, as mentioned here. I recommend Header Tags SEO though. Jack GREAT, thank you Jack. I am going to give it a try!
Guest Posted September 7, 2009 Posted September 7, 2009 I have just finished the install of easy meta tags 1.6. Now how do I actually add the meta tags to my website? Jamie
GemRock Posted September 7, 2009 Posted September 7, 2009 ... Now how do I actually add the meta tags to my website... by going to the support thread for that addon. Ken commercial support - unProtected channel, not to be confused with the forum with same name - open to everyone who need some professional help: either PM/email me, or go to my website (URL can be found in my profile). over 20 years of computer programming experience.
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